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Benjamin McKeown

Stretching the Colorado River : CBMWD - 0 views

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hazards drought

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  • The Colorado River basin is experiencing a chronic shortage due to natural flows along with a short-term problem of the current drought conditions. Additinally, Lake Mead’s natural flow patterns are projected to drop about 20 feet during 2014. An informative piece on this river rcently ran in the New York Times.
  • Reducing dependence on the Colorado River through voluntary agriculture-to-urban water transfers is one of the benefits of the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA)
  • The QSA defines the rights to a portion of water from the Colorado River for four water districts in Southern California
Benjamin McKeown

How Successful Were the Millennium Development Goals? A Final Report | New Security Beat - 0 views

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MDG

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  • “despite many successes, the poorest and most vulnerable people are being left behind.”
  • eport calls for better data collection practices to create a post-2015 development agenda that can overcome the MDG’s shortcomings.
  • number of people living in extreme poverty and proportion of undernourished people in developing regions has declined by more than half since 1990,
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  • The maternal mortality ratio has declined by 45 percent worldwide, and the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source rose from 76 percent to 91 percent
  • Those still left out, however, are increasingly concentrated in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and all across the globe, women and young people face the highest odds of living in poverty
  • Conflict and displacement is taking a toll as well.
  • While hunger has fallen in most areas, projections indicate that the prevalence of undernourishment in the Middle East will rise by 32 percent between 2014 and 2016 due to war, civil unrest, and increasing numbers of refugees.
  • Progress in maternal health is sharply divided along rural-urban lines
  • marginalized and easily forgotten amidst promising overall trends. “Millions of people are being left behind, especially the poorest and those disadvantaged because of their sex, age, disability, ethnicity, or geographic location,”
  • We need to tackle root causes and do more to integrate the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development,
  • “employment opportunities have diminished in both developing and developed regions
  • he employment-to-population ratio, which measures what percentage of the working population is employed, has declined around the world since 1990 with the biggest drops in East and South Asia.
  • rapid urbanization is taxing already-inadequate infrastructure. The proportion of the urban population living in slums in developing regions fell from 39 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2014, surpassing the MDG target. However, the total number of urban residents living in slums continues to grow as a result of accelerating urbanization and population growth
  • Population growth and increased consumption have also stressed the environment, presenting challenges that overshadow progress on the seventh MDG
  • While ozone-depleting substances have nearly been eliminated since 1990 and the ozone layer is expected to recover by midcentury, carbon dioxide emissions have risen by more than 50 percent in the past 25 years
  • Between 1998 and 2011, the number of countries experiencing water stress increased from 36 to 41. Water scarcity currently affects more than 40 percent of the world population, a statistic that is only projected to increase.
  • For the global poor whose livelihoods are directly tied to natural resources and suffer the most from environmental degradation, climate change hinders development in other sectors. That’s why environmental change is a much bigger focus in the Sustainable Development Goals, set to be adopted later this year.
Benjamin McKeown

Non-UK born residents likely to exceed 8 million in latest figures, thinktank says | UK... - 0 views

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migration population HL

shared by Benjamin McKeown on 26 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • he number of people living in Britain who were born abroad is likely to exceed 8 million for the first time when the latest official figures are published this week, according to an Oxford University thinktank.
  • latest estimate of net migration – the flow of migrants in and out of the UK – could break the previous record of 320,000 set in 2005, shortly after eight eastern European countries, including Poland, joined the EU.
  • migration was estimated to stand at 318,000 – just 2,000 below the highest level previously recorded in 2005
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  • A better yardstick to watch for on Thursday could be the number of people who live in Britain but who retain a non-British nationality.
  • The number of non-UK born residents gives only a partial picture of recent migration and integration trends, because it is a cumulative figure stretching back over decades.
  • “The prevalence of migration to the UK is therefore by no means unprecedented by European standards,”
  • From an economic perspective immigration brings both costs and benefits and affects different people in different ways, leaving no objective method of deciding what the ‘right number’ of migrants is. Different demographic, economic and political arguments can be marshalled in favour of either increasing or reducing immigration, and reasonable people will disagree,” it says.
Benjamin McKeown

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HL financial flows equity

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    "of equity as ownership in any asset after all debts associated with that asset are paid off. For example, a car or house with no outstanding debt is considered the owner's equity because he or she can readily sell the item for cash. Stocks are equity because they represent ownership in a company."
Benjamin McKeown

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HL culture globalization Mexico remittances civil society 3X1

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  • The 3x1 initiative started as the 2x1 programme, which was established in Zacatecas, Mexico in 1993. This initiative aims to expand Home Town Associations' (HTA) community development funds: for every dollar contributed by HTA, the different government levels match this contribution. The 3x1 initiative stared operations in 2002. Projects include support for the church, town beautification, basic assistance in health and education, and constructing and improving public infrastructure. A small number of projects support wealth generation activities. Twenty-seven states in Mexico and 40 HTAs in the United States currently participate in this programme.
  • In, 2002 the 3x1 projects totalled US$ 43.5 million, a quarter coming from HTAs. Zacatecas received over one-third of the allocation, while Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Michoacan also participated significantly. Ten per cent of the projects focused on electrifications and economic infrastructure and over ten per cent focused on social infrastructure. Most of the communities targeted suffer basic development problems and have high emigration rates, and are in need of basic public infrastructure.
  • First, funds tend to flow to non-marginal communities; and, second, most projects funded are not productive. In response, the Mexican government has introduced a quota for marginal communities, and since 2002, to insist on productive investment.
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  • The practice encourages partnership between Mexicans abroad, local community leaders, and state and federal authorities.
Benjamin McKeown

Food, energy and water: the politics of the nexus | Jeremy Allouche | Science | The Gua... - 0 views

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water food energy Nexus

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  • Jeremy Allouche
  • In a paradoxical way, this was the first time that the business community came to realise the limits to growth.
  • modellers, farmers, and civil engineers have known about these inter-relationships for a long time.
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  • systems approach, where the interactions between different sectors are modelled as global and regional flows, ignoring day-to day realities, local priorities and needs; • A decision-making tool based on these interactions, which provides an economic valuation of these resources and a market mechanism to efficiently allocate them.
  • It treats the trade-offs between human needs for water, energy and food as a perfect equilibrium model, in which resource allocation can be decided.
  • This can encourage the commodification of resources, downplaying environmental externalities, such as biodiversity and climate change, as well as poverty alleviation needs.
  • The villagers affected by the Rasi Salai Dam are now experiencing water scarcity after losing these wetlands.
  • Originally, the government claimed that the dam would provide water for 5,500 hectares of land
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  • This example highlights how elements of the nexus, whether food, water or energy security, take on different meanings at different levels of analysis, from the global to the local.
  • optimisation;
  • A different framing of the nexus is required: one which recognises that global priorities may not reflect local concerns; and that resource allocations are political decisions, which need to be decided through more open and transparent decision making. The nexus must become more inclusive, so that its interrelationships can be grounded in local realities and human needs.
Benjamin McKeown

'Surprise' Palu tsunami clue found on seafloor - BBC News - 0 views

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tsunami hazards

shared by Benjamin McKeown on 11 Dec 18 - No Cached
  • he quake occurred on what is called a strike-slip fault, where the ground on one side of a rupture moves horizontally past the ground on the other side. It is not a configuration normally associated with very large tsunamis.
  • When we overlap the bathymetric data from before and after, we can see that almost all of the area of the seafloor inside the bay subsides. And from this data, we can also observe [the movement] to the north. So, actually, we have a vertical and a horizontal displacement,
  • here is evidence of several underwater landslides in the data. These, too, could have been a factor
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  • nother possibility is an upwards thrust of the seabed in a zone some distance from Palu where the strike-slip fault splits into diverging tracks
  • Palu witnessed a lot of liquefaction, where the structure of soils in the city was seen to collapse, to become fluidised and flow even on very low gradients.
  • That basically leaves no time for warnings. That's very different from Japan (in 2011) where there was an eternity of time - more than 30 minutes everywhere until the first person was killed by the tsunami. That's the challenge for these local tsunamis: people have to self-evacuate."
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