Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
For IPWSD 2012, I brought an audio recorder to the keynote speech by Jeff Sachs and the panel discussions, and I never got around to uploading them. So here they are! Jeffrey Sachs Keynote Speech: MP3 Panel Discussion: MP3
February 18, 2011 Climate Change and its Social Consequences, Disasters and Conflict, General, Water Resource Management
Project by James Rising (with Prof. John Mutter): This research has two complementary directions: studying the projected evolution of flood variability in the Himalayan floodplain with respect to glacier melt. What portion of the current flooding along Himalayan rivers is attributable to glacier melt,…
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February 18, 2011 General, Water Resource Management
Project by Xiaojia Bao: This paper modeled household water use in a water-scarce rural village in Northern China using household level data. Several household characteristics were identified to impact water use significantly. Household size shows a scale-economy effect, with a…
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January 27, 2011 General, Water Resource Management
Dealing with spatial and temporal variation in water availability in a data-sparse environment Project by Anna Tompsett The project focuses on an area of the Niger Inland Delta near Tombouctou, Mali, where there is very little data available for water…
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January 27, 2011 Energy Systems, General
Project by Aly Sanoh This paper analysis the optimal options to supply electricity to national economies from both domestic as well as distant resources using transmissions systems across the huge renewable energy resources of Africa. The overarching questions are: How…
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Title: Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Olivier DeschenesLocation: Room 1401 International Affairs BuildingDescription: Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Olivier Deschenes (UCSB) Sponsored by the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs Start Time: 16:10:00Date: 2010-12-06End Time: 18:00:00
Title: Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Eugenia KalnayLocation: Room 1401 International Affairs BuildingDescription: Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Eugenia Kalnay (Maryland) Sponsored by the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public AffairsStart Time: 16:10:00Date: 2010-11-22End Time: 18:00:00
Title: Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Jeffrey VincentLocation: Room 1401 International Affairs BuildingDescription: Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Jeffrey Vincent (Duke) Sponsored by the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public AffairsStart Time: 16:10:00Date: 2010-11-08End Time: 18:00:00