{"id":17349,"date":"2015-12-10T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?page_id=17349"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:34:32","slug":"water-governance-in-semi-arid-lands-political-and-economic-insights-for-the-management-of-variability-and-extremes-in-a-changing-climate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/pathways-to-resilience-in-semi-arid-economies-prise\/water-governance-in-semi-arid-lands-political-and-economic-insights-for-the-management-of-variability-and-extremes-in-a-changing-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Water governance in semi-arid lands: political and economic insights for the management of variability and extremes in a changing climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>Led by the <a class=\"link link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.odi.org\/\" aria-describedby=\"link-description-new-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Overseas Development Institute&#65279;<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M14.42 1.04L3.2.7a.8.8 0 00-.8.76v.1a.8.8 0 00.76.7l9.39.3L.93 14.16c-.3.3-.3.8 0 1.1l.09.08c.3.23.73.2 1.01-.07L13.65 3.65l.29 9.4a.8.8 0 00.8.76.79.79 0 00.77-.8L15.17 1.8a.82.82 0 00-.75-.76z\" fill=\"#2e3152\"><\/path><\/svg><\/a>, with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, and the University of Ouagadougou, the research focuses on Burkina Faso and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>It analyses how institutions and decision-making respond to crises of too much and too little water, as well as oscillations between extremes, by using a &lsquo;political economy&rsquo; lens to ask:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What role do political-economy considerations play in determining water governance responses to extreme climate events &ndash; such as droughts and floods &ndash; in semi-arid regions?<\/li>\n<li>What are the distributional outcomes, for prosperity and\/or equity, of these responses?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent can insights from past extreme events support learning to inform policy and institutional planning for future climate resilience in the water sector?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/research\/pathways-to-resilience-in-semi-arid-economies-prise\/prise-research-projects\/\">Other PRISE research projects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>Led by the Overseas Development Institute&#65279;, with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Sustainable Development&hellip;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":8321,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"topic_area":[],"class_list":["post-17349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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