decentralized power Articles
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Power dynamics and water reform in the Zimbabwean context: implications for the poor
In Zimbabwe, the state has been reconfiguring the water sector since 1998, as has been happening more generally within the wider Southern African region. Within the water sector, as in broader environmental governance, decentralization is increasingly being proposed as an important step towards increased accountability, equity and positive social and environmental outcomes. Decentralization is ...
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An approach to semantic interoperability in federations of systems
A central concern in system of systems engineering is the issue of coordination and interoperability between constituent systems. Special attention has to be given to interoperability with respect to federations of systems, which are coalitions of partner systems with decentralised power and authority. A major challenge in these systems is how to enable large-scale data and service ...
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Wind powered desalination - Project references - Case study
Mekong Delta pilot installation for decentral wind powered water desalination for irrigation Climate change worldwide affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation. Declining inflows of fresh water and rising sea levels aggravate salt intrusion in aquifers in estuaries, which often host strategic agricultural resources. Coastal and estuarine areas are often remote from adequate power ...
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Critical infrastructures will remain vulnerable: neighbourhoods must fend for themselves
Critical infrastructures in the US will remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks, both physical and cyber, into the foreseeable future. This paper explores strategies for making those infrastructures more resilient in the face of such attacks (or natural disasters). We focus on three key infrastructures: provision of electric power, telecommunications (both voice and data), and information ...
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Integrated urban water governance in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: changes and inertias
This contribution intends to contribute to the analysis of changes in the model of water governance in Belo Horizonte. The first part of the article explores how different theories concerning governance can be interpreted in different ways and, based on this, develops three water governance models: 1) the previous centralised model; 2) the traditional normative model; 3) the currently implemented ...
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Study: Involving Public Leads to Better Water Management
Ratepayers’ and water managers’ differing priorities may be bridged with education on issues A new study from Portland State University has identified a specific dissonance between the concerns of the public and of local officials responsible for water management. The study, by Melissa Haeffner, Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Courtney G. Flint, showed that while the public tends to be ...
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Decentralized Wastewater Management in the Caribbean: A Detailed Review
Beneath the pristine facade of Caribbean paradise lies a pressing issue – wastewater management. Island nations grapple with untreated sewage, highlighting the need for innovative solutions. Enter decentralized wastewater management systems, a powerful force addressing environmental and health concerns in the Caribbean ...
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GWE rebrands in line with new landmarks in clean energy generation and profitability
A world leader in wastewater and green energy technologies that radically improve companies’ environmental sustainability while enhancing their profitability is rebranding its international activities under the banner Global Water & Energy. The Global Water Engineering organization – headed by Chairman and CEO Jean-Pierre Ombregt – is celebrating the successful completion of ...
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Advanced On-site Wastewater Treatment for Greenfield and Retrofit Applications
Many owners and operators of traditional decentralized municipal wastewater treatment plants, also referred to as on-site or off-grid treatment, are acutely aware their systems are at risk of becoming obsolete. These systems include septic fields, lagoons, oxidation ditches, ponds, rotating biological contactor (RBC) mechanisms, and sequencing batch reactor (SBR) processes. In this white paper, ...
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Building local democracy through natural resource interventions
This policy brief provides natural resource policy makers and practitioners with an approach for evaluating how their policies and projects can support the emergence and consolidation of local democracy. In practice, everything but democratic decentralization has taken place in the name of ‘democratic decentralization’ reforms: privatization, administrative deconcentration, NGOization, selective ...
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How Germany plans to succeed in a nuclear free, low carbon economy
Germany has taken some fundamental energy decisions in recent months, ones that are interesting for other countries to study and learn from. The most “famous” decision recently has been to phase out nuclear power in the next ten years. This move builds on years of debate and a societal decision after Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident to move away from nuclear energy. ...
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Decentralized Water Reuse - Case Study
Water is an integral part of our society today. This vital resource is used in the operations of many industrial processes, human consumption, and for food production to name just a few. The increasing demands for water for agricultural, drinking and industrial processes has put significant strain on global fresh water supplies as the world's population continues to grow. In many parts of the ...
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Global deforestation is decreasing. Or is it?
A new look at the complex picture of land use change suggests that when it comes to forests, we’re far from being out of the woods. It started, as many things do, with a rumor. In 2013 Matt Finer, a researcher with the Amazon Conservation Association, heard from locals that someone was cutting down rainforest deep in the Peruvian Amazon, far from prying eyes. So Finer and colleagues did ...
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