UID:
almahu_9949383744202882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 306 pages).
ISBN:
9780429428760
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0429428766
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0429767978
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9780429767968
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042976796X
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9780429767951
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0429767951
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9780429767975
Series Statement:
Earthscan studies in water resource management
Content:
"This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems. The findings of the book are the result of a decade-long interdisciplinary experiment in conceiving, developing, and implementing an interdisciplinary graduate program on Water Diplomacy at Tufts University, USA, involving water researchers and practitioners from over 40 countries. This has led to the development of the Water Diplomacy Framework, a shared framework for understanding, diagnosing, and communicating about complex water issues across disciplinary boundaries. This framework clarifies important distinctions between water systems - simple, complicated, or complex - and the attributes that these distinctions imply for how these problems can be addressed. In this book the focus is on complex water issues, and how they require a problem-driven rather than a theory-driven approach to interdisciplinary collaboration. Moreover, it is argued that conception of interdisciplinarity needs to go beyond collaboration among experts, because complex water problems demand inclusive stakeholder engagement, such as in fact-value deliberation, joint fact-finding, collective decision making, and adaptive management. Water professionals working in such environments need to operate with both principles and pragmatism in order to achieve actionable, sustainable, and equitable outcomes. This book explores these ideas in more detail and demonstrates their efficacy through a diverse range of case studies. Reflections on the program are also included, from conceptualization through implementation and evaluation. This book offers critical lessons and case studies for researchers and practitioners working on complex water issues as well as important lessons for those looking to initiate, implement or evaluate interdisciplinary program to address other complex problems in any setting"--
Note:
Origins : conceptualization, implementation, and evolution of an interdisciplinary graduate program on water diplomacy / Shafiqul Islam, Kent E. Portney, J. Michael Reed, Timothy S. Griffin, and William Moomaw -- Making distinctions : the importance of recognizing complexity in coupled natural and human systems / Kevin M. Smith and Shafiqul Islam -- Working together : an argument for problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration / Kevin M. Smith and Shafiqul Islam -- Principled pragmatism : how water diplomats approach complex water issues? / Kevin M. Smith and Shafiqul Islam -- Operationalizing problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration : an overview of case studies from the Tufts Water Diplomacy Program / Kevin M. Smith and Shafiqul Islam -- Flood diplomacy : the hydrological, technical, and sociopolitical challenges of delineating usable floodplain boundaries / Michal Russo and Laura Read -- Cholera in Haiti : why many efforts have failed and how we can do better / Michael Ritter -- Water diplomacy at the macro scale : agricultural groundwater governance in the High Plains Aquifer Region of the United States / Gregory N. Sixt, Ashley C. McCarthy, Kent E. Portney, Timothy S. Griffin -- Creating flexibility in freshwater availability for the Eastern Nile Basin / Agustín Botteron -- Confronting the natural domain : strategies for addressing ecology and conservation in complex water management challenges / Charles B. van Rees, Gabriela Marie Garcia, Jessica Rozek Cañizares -- Access to safe drinking water across the Navajo Nation / Laura Corlin -- Coupling and complexity of natural and human systems : a case study from the southwest Bangladesh delta / Wahid Palash, Kevin M. Smith, Shafiqul Islam -- Evaluation of an interdisciplinary graduate program : lessons learned from the Tufts Water Diplomacy Program / Glenn G. Page, Shafiqul Islam -- Reflections on the Tufts experiment with interdisciplinary water diplomacy research / Kent E. Portney, J. Michael Reed, Amanda C. Repella -- Perspectives on water diplomacy : key findings, remaining challenges, and future directions / Lawrence Susskind, Enamul Choudhury, Greg Koch -- Quo vadis? / Shafiqul Islam and Kevin M. Smith.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Interdisciplinary collaboration for water diplomacy Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9781138369283
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429428760
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