New research 2020 – CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfers in Africa
by On 1 September 2020, a major research effort was launched for a duration of five years to study whether privately managed cash transfers are able …
The new do-tank “2030beyond” aims to get the SDGs back on the political agenda
by The 2030 Agenda, adopted by the UN Member States in 2015, is the most ambitious and important development agenda, the world has ever seen. However, five …
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No such thing as waste: resource recovery and shifting perceptions
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a well-known expression, but one with pernicious effects in the context of waste. We’ve always done things a certain way. Things are made, used, and thrown away. But where do all these thrown-away things go? What do they become? What could they become? Our linear way of thinking and behaving is being increasingly criticised as landfills overflow, water supplies dry up, and air becomes unbreathable.
Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Natural Sciences / News / Sustainable cities and communities
No such thing as waste: resource recovery and shifting perceptions
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a well-known expression, but one with pernicious effects in the context of waste. We’ve always done things a …
Circular economy: Breaking the plastic waves
This article pertains to my ongoing MSc thesis in Sustainable Biotechnology, in which I am examining the role of bio-based plastics in the transition to …
New research 2021: How do the young in West Africa navigate streams of information in times of crises?
The Independent Research Fund Denmark – Humanities has granted DKK 1.2 mill. to an international network of researchers, who will explore how young people in West Africa navigate streams of information in crises of security, health, and migration. Project leader: Heidi Bojsen, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University
New research 2021: Illegal resource extraction and state formation in emerging African democracies
The Independent Research Fund Denmark – Social Sciences has granted DKK 2,7 mill. to Postdoc Paul Austin Stacey, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University.
Illegally accessed resources comprise an expanding, billion-dollar sector in many sub-Saharan African countries. The new project is focusing on illegal gold mining in Ghana.
“MUCED should have been more ambitious”, says former MUCED coordinator Randolph S. Jeremiah
In August 2000, MUCED, a consortium of four Malaysian universities, was formed to encourage new interdisciplinary approaches to environmental management. The consortium was part of a project proposed and supported by the DANCED program of the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy. Randolph S. Jeremiah became the Coordinator in the Secretariat of MUCED. In this interview he points to some of the key experiences. Today, Randolph works as Head of Water Resources at ERE, a Malaysian consultant company.
Multidisciplinary collaboration to secure the future of water in Cape Town
In 2018, the City of Cape Town declared a city-wide water crisis, which would be punctuated by ‘Day Zero’ – the day the city would run out of water. The drought had been looming for years, and the City of Cape Town had made some management changes, but all rested on the assumption that rain would fall at the same rate as in the past.
DDRN has two new student interns!
Meet Krishnanunni Mavinkal Ravindran from India and Megan Roux from South Africa