Sustainable provision of potable water in low resource contexts remains a key challenge for the international water sector, largely due to the complex interaction of factors that drive service delivery outcomes. In response, there has been an increasing prevalence in the use of systems modeling tools and techniques to gain a systems-level understanding of programmatic leverage points.
Unfortunately, these methods tend to be cumbersome and analytically complex. As a result, they are inaccessible, irrelevant, or both to stakeholders who often have the most intimate understanding of the local context. This webinar presents a research program that seeks to develop an accessible and useful tool – rooted in system dynamics and machine learning – that practitioners can use to inform policy and practice for water service delivery. Current progress on the tool’s development and steps forward will be discussed.
The seminar will take place on July 8th, 2020 at 12pm ET.
Further details and registration: https://www.engineeringforchange.org/webinar/tool-water-service-delivery-low-resource-settings/
Wege zur großflächigen Renaturierung: Wie Europas Flüsse wieder lebendiger werden
Flüsse, Moore und Auen stehen unter Druck – und mit ihnen zentrale Lebensgrundlagen für Mensch und Natur. Doch wie lassen sich zerstörte Ökosysteme nicht nur lokal, sondern europaweit wirksam wiederherstellen? Ein Team um Daniel Hering von der Universität Duisburg-Essen hat darauf nun eine Antwort gefunden: mit fünf zentralen „Bausteinen“, die den Weg für eine umfassende Renaturierung ebnen.
