Between 2020 and 2021, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Heriot-Watt University and Planeta Oceano partnered to develop the project “Mainstreaming biodiversity into local coastal development: Key findings for the Paracas Bay Area, Peru”. The Paracas Bay Area (PBA) is an area of ecological and cultural importance for Peru with an expanding urban setting with several economic […]
Author: Catalina Bastidas
Statistical analysis of change-points ascertains the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for COVID-19 in Malaysia
The SFC-GCRF project “Post-MCO Strategies for Controlling Covid-19 in Malaysia,” led by Sarat Chandra Dass, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, is part of the twelve HWU-GCRF projects tackling the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in developing countries. This research demonstrates the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions in Malaysia as resilient measures of stemming disease spread […]
Innovative solution to fresh water scarcity in Sumba Island
Climate change, natural disasters, and water scarcity are big challenges that countries are facing at this time. Indonesia is suffering the consequences of climate change being more prone to the occurrence of natural disasters due to rising temperatures and sea levels. It generates a cascade effect where the main consequences are water scarcity, stress, and […]
Modelling sustainable land uses at the landscape-scale in the Colombian Amazon region
Colombia is in the process of the implementation of the Peace Agreement signed in 2016. Lack of governmental presence, unsustainable land use patterns, and land grabbing have caused a 40% increase in deforestation. This project brings together a multidisciplinary team of research experts led by Heriot Watt University and the Amazonian Scientific Research Institute – SINCHI in Colombia. The project team has […]
Research highlights risks for the relocation of the Indonesian capital
The announcement in 2019 about the transfer of the Indonesian capital from Jakarta to Borneo, in the province of East Kalimantan, set off alarms among the scientific community. The location had been identified as an area of potential tsunami risk. In early 2019 a research team from Heriot-Watt University, led by Dr Uisdean Nicholson, started […]
Vaccine Cold-Chain Rapid Assessment Methodology
Mass vaccination of COVID-19 is a significant challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa countries where most of the population lives in rural areas. Research by Dr Toby Peters and Dr Bing Xu aims to support vaccine delivery mechanisms at an unprecedented scale, based on a pilot study in Rwanda. The team developed an approach to evaluate the existing cold […]
Partnerships for smart cities
Professor Harry Smith was invited to the Seventh World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia in 2014. There he established contacts with Universidad Nacional de Colombia that later gave rise to three important projects: Mitigation of landslide risks in informal settlements in Medellin Landslide risk management strategies through the development of community-based infrastructure in Latin American […]