Tag Archives: World Bank
Renewable energy and technological debt
Renewable energy is a bit like oil. Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged climate adaptation, LMIC, nature-based solutions, renewable energy, resource colonialism, technical debt, wind energy, World Bank, YAGNI
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Preference for OA research by income group
Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … papers with authors based in sub-Saharan Africa, papers with authors based in low income countries, and papers resulting from international collaboration are … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged Amelica, article processing charge, arXiv, bronze OA, coalition S, GDP per capita, gold OA, green OA, hybrid OA, income groups, K VijayRaghavan, Latin America, Open Access, Plan S, PLoS ONE, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank
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Groundwater extinction
In a report published on June 14, 2018, NITI Aayog, a policy think-tank established by the Government of India, claimed that 21 Indian cities would run out of their supply of groundwater by 2020. The report, especially this statistic, went … Continue reading
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Tagged Chennai, groundwater, groundwater contamination, Joanna Slater, NITI Aayog, Tamil Nadu, The Washington Post, water crisis, World Bank
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