All pages with keywords: rainfall
As Southern Africa faces new urban drought challenges, who is heeding the wake-up call?
The major disruption to urban water and hydroelectricity supplies caused by the conditions accompanying the 2015/16 El Niño in Southern Africa show that governments and businesses need to be more prepared for climatic extremes, argue the authors of this commentary. read more »
Hydropower in Africa: Plans for new dams could increase the risk of disruption to electricity supply
New research published in Nature Energy this month finds that plans for new dams could put electricity generation and supply at risk and highlights the importance of considering rainfall patterns when planning the location of new hydropower dams in Africa read more »
Does choice of drought index influence estimates of drought-induced cereal losses in India?
This research suggests that by using a more flexible measure of droughts policy-makers could more effectively shape policy responses relating to climate adaptation and more accurately identify agricultural locations more vulnerable to climate change. read more »
Grantham Workshop | Salvatore di Falco ‘Necessity is the Mother of Invention: the Emergence of the Reluctant Entrepreneur in Rural Ethiopia’
Salvatore di Falco, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, will be the speaker for this seminar. Abstract We … read more »
The luck of the development draw: environmental volatility and the takeoff to modern economic growth
This paper tests the implications of the model developed by Acemoglu and Zilibotti [Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti, 1997. Was Prometheus unbound by chance? Risk, diversification and growth. Journal … read more »
