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How to fill the empty glass? Residential fresh water use in Dongying (2014)
Journal Article
Jia, L. (2014). How to fill the empty glass? Residential fresh water use in Dongying. ZEF-News (Deutsche Ausg.), 4

China’s residential fresh water use has risen by 37% in
the past decade (2000-2011). Therewith, it represents the
fastest increase among all water uses in the country. The
rapid increase in residential and other fresh water uses
has led to an ove... Read More about How to fill the empty glass? Residential fresh water use in Dongying.

Resilience, poverty and development (2014)
Journal Article
Béné, C., Newsham, A., Davies, M., Ulrichs, M., & Godfrey-Wood, R. (2014). Resilience, poverty and development. Journal of International Development, 26, 598-623. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.2992

Resilience has become prominent in academia where it is used as a central framework in disciplines such as ecology, climate change adaptation or urban planning. Policy makers and international development agencies also increasingly refer to it. The o... Read More about Resilience, poverty and development.

Transformational resilience thinking: Putting people, power and politics at the heart of urban climate resilience (2014)
Journal Article
Bahadur, A., & Tanner, T. (2014). Transformational resilience thinking: Putting people, power and politics at the heart of urban climate resilience. Environment & Urbanization, 26(1), 200-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247814522154

Resilience is receiving substantial traction as a concept to inform climate change and development policies and programmes. At the same time, a number of critiques have emerged that question its use as a framing concept for tackling urban climate cha... Read More about Transformational resilience thinking: Putting people, power and politics at the heart of urban climate resilience.

Review of Morten Jerven Poor Numbers. How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It Ithaca / Londres, Cornell University Press, coll. « Cornell Studies in Political Economy », 2013 (2014)
Journal Article
Oya, C. (2014). Review of Morten Jerven Poor Numbers. How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It Ithaca / Londres, Cornell University Press, coll. « Cornell Studies in Political Economy », 2013. Politique africaine (Paris), 187-192. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.133.0177