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What do entrepreneurship and doctoral studies have in common?

In this text, WDRG doctoral candidate  Thomas Banafa writes about  combining entrepreneurship and doctoral studies.   I started my own consulting company a little over two years ago after six years of working as a design engineer at a large…

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How to navigate transdisciplinary waters?

In this blog post WDRG post-doc  Laura Verbrugge  reflects on the role of researchers in transdisciplinary research projects on water. Solving wicked problems in water management requires collaboration of various actors and the integration of knowledge from diverse sources and research disciplines. Such processes, also referred to as knowledge co-production, help to establish a common understanding…

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CRITICAL NATURE: Are China’s dams on the Mekong causing downstream drought?...

 Amy Fallon and Marko Kallio investigate a recent environmental report in the Mekong basin and discuss constructive ways forward for science and cooperation in the region. This post was originally published by The Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) within the Faculty…

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Two years off the academia – How did it feel like, and is there life or...

Juho Haapala is a former and current Water and Development Research Group member, who had his defence in 2018 about governing water for local development. After the graduation, he spent two years in rural Nepal working in water-related governmental water projects…

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The world on your plate

Vilma Sandström has a PhD in Environmental Science and she is passioned about using science and research as tools to work for more sustainable societies. Food systems and their sustainability challenges have been in the focus of her research. In…

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Exploring water through art and science

In mid-August Aino Peltola, Elina Lehikoinen and Matias Heino from Aalto University’s Water and Environmental Research Group got an exciting change to their regular schedule, when a group of secondary school students visited the laboratory to learn about water-related phenomena…

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Indian Ocean Dipole affects Australian crop growing conditions

Climate oscillations are weather cycles, where atmospheric or oceanic conditions, such as sea surface temperature (SST) or atmospheric pressure, fluctuate regularly. These fluctuations are often related to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns even far away, through so-called teleconnections. The…

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