Drawing on case histories of emergency relief efforts that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for designing programs to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. They also present an analytical framework for assessing the...

This note looks at how companies engage with stakeholders in areas with high social or political tensions. It argues that most social risk-mitigation strategies often exacerbate tensions and risks to the companies. The note offers a checklist of risk indicators and a set of questions companies...

The presence of organic micropollutants (OMP) in surface water and water recovered from Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery (MARR) systems creates serious concerns. OMP pose potential health effects and difficulties to remove, due to diverging physicochemical properties and low concentrations....