Stemming from the question of how to distribute water fairly when there's not enough, this first edition of a series of podcasts explores the case of Guadalajara that in 2021 experienced a Partial day 0 where around 500,000 people had no running water for almost 4 months. Join me in my conversation with Alejandra Ayo to discover what happened back then and what kind of future for drought management she is imagining.

This tool enables exploration and communication scenario-based planning and discussion including climate change as well as other shocks and stresses. I had the opportunity to present this project in the International Conference on Resilient Systems and it was also presented together with the Agenda by the Governor of Jalisco in the UN Water Week in New York. 

As a final project for the course Model-Based Decision Making, we were divided into stakeholders that had to agree on a policy to prevent flooding in the IJssel region in the Netherlands. Our team developed a tool designed to enable a science-based discussion among all the actors to identify policies that best represented the values towards risk, uncertainty and development agreed upon during political debates.

Innovation, in all of its forms, will be key to learn how to live well in a warming planet. However, the most vulnerable countries are usually the ones with the lowest innovation capacity. Thus, adaptation can further increase north-south dependency and inequality. I argue that Mexico should strive for technological sovereignty for adaptation and that it should change the way it defines innovation to put well-being at the centre and value autonomous innovation.