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20 March 2023
Arts Interventions for Sustainable Sanitation and Resource Recovery (accessible version)
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Many countries in the global South declare regions to be open defecation free, but they must still address significant sanitation, wastewater, and faecal sludge management challenges. Climate uncertainty, water shortages, and weak infrastructure mean that ‘flush and forget’ systems are not always possible or desirable.
20 March 2023
Arts Interventions for Sustainable Sanitation and Resource Recovery
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This briefing describes how art interventions can help people reimagine alternative sanitation futures. Drawing on research in Nepal, it describes how activities such as dance workshops, humanure planting, song competitions, and radio jingles can generate new knowledge about sanitation challenges and faecal sludge re-use, showing that ‘brown’ can be ‘gold’!
Revisiting the UN Water Conference: 46 years of learning and forgetting?
This event examines the progress and challenges that have shaped water and development from Mar-del- Plata (1977) to the upcoming UN...
1 March 2023
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the Idea of Acceleration Through the Conflicting Temporalities of Politics and Nature Among the Sahelian Populations
In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the study of social-ecological systems, this article analyzes how the political will to accelerate the Great Green Wall reveals power dynamics between Western and Sahelian countries.
The Great Green Wall and Sahelian Environmental Imaginaries: Green Fix and the Persistence of a Policy Idea
The necessity to address the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation is usually expressed in terms of visions of...
Podcast S05 Ep2: Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies – the politics of saving the planet
In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Fellow Lars Otto Naess interviews Dr Neil McCulloch, Associate Fellow at IDS...
10 February 2023
The Political Ecology of COVID-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by...
14 December 2022
Financing in Fragile and Conflict Contexts: Evidence, Opportunities, and Barriers
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper provides a summary of the main trends and issues regarding both regular and risk financing in FCAS.
12 December 2022
New IDS Bulletin: Reframing climate and environmental justice
Questions of justice are relevant to all aspects of climate and environmental change, from how and where the impacts are felt the most,...