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…
14 September 2020 Global Water Partnership, together with partners and contributors from all over the world, has just launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Governance for Transboundary Freshwater Security. The topics covered in six modules range from transboundary water…
4 September 2020 Vesitalous is a Finnish professional journal which has readership across academic, governance, and public fields. The latest issue, co-edited by our Associate Professor Marko Keskinen, covered wide range of approaches to water security. The journal (in Finnish)…
Our researchers recently published a critical nature on the drivers of the Mekong region droughts. The 2019-20 drought has triggered concerns and highlighted the need for research on the communities, information, and regional cooperation. Our doctoral student Marko Kallio and…
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…
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…
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…
European Geosciences Union (EGU) annually holds a massive conference with more than 15 000 scientists attending from around the globe. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, this year most scientific conferences were cancelled or postponed, and the EGU annual meeting…
Alexander Horton is a postdoctoral researcher from the UK with a background in Hydrology and Geomorphology. He is interested in the interactions between forests and water systems, and the impact human development is having on the hydrological functioning of these changing landscapes,…
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…