Aquatic environment and resources

Enhancing resilience of Tanzanian coastal communities: Towards sustainable fisheries and a healthy marine environment (ECOFISH)

Research project Final grant amount TBA Climate change, pollution and over-exploitation are threatening fisheries-related livelihoods in Tanzania to the extent that may undermine national efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The marine res ...
Period: 2024-04-1 to 2028-03-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Partner institutions: Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA), Tanzania PANNULA.dk, Denmark Project code: 24-06-DTU
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Climate-resilient aquatic food systems for healthy lives of young women and girls in Bangladesh (AQUAFOOD)

Research project Sustainable management of aquatic foods is essential, in order to support the urgently needed shift to sustainable and healthy diets, mitigating climate change. Yet, the approaches that promote sustainable food systems largely fail to recognize the p ...
Period: 2023-10-1 to 2028-03-31 Countries: Bangladesh Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Bangladesh Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Bangladesh International Centre for Diarrhoea Disease Research (ICDDR), Bangladesh University of Stirling, United Kingdom University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Project code: 23-15-KU Total grant: 9,999,720 DKK
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Environmentally and economically sustainable water treatment system for post-mining waste

Research project The environment and water resources in South Africa (SA) are negatively impacted by mining activities. This project creates a research opportunity for treating acid mine drainage (AMD), a type of mining effluent, in an environmentally and socioeconom ... First year report Objectives: Acid Mine Drainage AMD treatment: A sustainable solution is being developed. This involves stepwise technology approaches for key AMD characteristics such as iron removal, and REE extraction undergoing lab trials. Tw ...
Period: 2022-04-1 to 2025-03-31 Countries: South Africa Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa University of Witwatersrand (WITS), South Africa Project code: 21-M10-KU Total grant: 4,985,766 DKK
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Coastal Community Resilience to Climate and Diarrhoea

Research project Global climate change will impact human health in various ways, including increasing the occurrence of waterborne enteric diseases such as diarrhoea, especially in poor and vulnerable communities that have low adaptive capacity. The relationship betw ... Midterm report Objectives: The project is progressing according to its workplan in meeting its overall goal to build resilience to climate change and improve diarrhoeal management in coastal communities in Ghana. Under WPs 1, 2 and 3, data has bee ...
Period: 2020-03-2 to 2025-03-1 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Partner institutions: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark People´s Dialogue on Human Settlements (PD), Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ghana Project code: 19-10-GHA Total grant: 11,969,990 DKK
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Building climate-resilience into basin water management

Research project Anthropogenic activities including illegal and uncontrolled mining and logging have seriously degraded the landscapes of many river basins in West Africa posing significant challenges to sustainable water resources management (WRM). Climate change (C ... Midterm report Over the past 3 years, the project has made significant progress in all the key research areas of climate, hydrology, ecosystem valuation, water system optimization and water governance. Comprehensive literature reviews on water gov ...
Period: 2019-03-1 to 2025-02-28 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana Partner institutions: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Ghana Hydrological Services Department (HSD), Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana SIRCOOL Mineral Water Company Limited, Ghana Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia Project code: 18-13-GHA Total grant: 11,998,167 DKK
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Hotspot of multiple stressors (HOTSPOT2)

Research project The Gulf of Guinea suffers from activities including intense shipping, offshore oil exploration, discharge from mining and industry, infrastructure projects such as port expansions, and sewage from coastal communities. These create a hotspot of envir ... First year report The overall objective of HOTSPOT2 is to generate the environmental and socio-economic knowledge and expertise that can form the basis for the sustainable development of coastal communities, and use this knowledge to develop manag ...
Period: 2021-10-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana Zeal Environmental Technologies, Ghana Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark LITEHAUZ, Denmark Orbicon A/S, Denmark Loughborough University (LBORO), United Kingdom Project code: 20-M08DTU Total grant: 4,999,423 DKK
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Managed aquifer recharge in South Africa (MARSA)

Research project Existing freshwater resources are threatened by overexploitation due to population growth, urbanisation, and climate change and many regions experience water shortage. South Africa is a water-scarce country and during the 2017-19 Southern African dro ... Midterm report Managed aquifer recharge (MAR), the purposeful recharge of water to aquifers for subsequent recovery, is used globally to replenish over-exploited groundwater resources. MARSA aims to develop technologies that allow for a wider rang ...
Period: 2021-09-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: South Africa Lead institution: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark Partner institutions: University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa South African Government, Water and Sanitation (DWS), South Africa Rambøll A/S, Denmark Project code: 20-M03GEUS Total grant: 4,994,921 DKK
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