Publications

Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa: A Q-Methodology approach to imagining development futures

Research article by Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Declan Conway, Swenja Surminski on 24 Dec 2021

In this paper the authors advance a novel approach to integrated assessment of the ways in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are likely to manifest and interact within a given development context, using Q-Methodology and the conceptual framing of imaginaries.

Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa

Research article by Christian Siderius, Martin Todd, Ajay Gajanan Bhave, Andrew Dougill, David Mkwambisi, Joanna Pardoe, Japhet J. Kashaigili, Katharine Vincent, Rachel James, Richard Washington, Declan Conway on 11 Mar 2021

The authors of this paper examined past and future climate variability with the aim of understanding the main source of climate risk to development plans across the water, energy, and food sectors in southern East Africa, a relatively neglected region in terms of climate science and targeted for extensive infrastructure development.

Imaginaries of development corridors: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa

Working paper by Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Laetitia Pettinotti, Declan Conway, Swenja Surminski, Edward Ndilhana, Tobias Nyumba on 12 Dec 2020

The analysis suggests that the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets mostly create conditions that aid the achievement of each other within development corridors but that there are trade-offs between some goals and other development gains. The authors signal priority areas for investment, policy reorientation and strengthened safeguards, to maximise positive SDG interactions and minimise negative ones.