Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy: A Principled and Pragmatic Approach

ISBN-13: 9781032084893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 324 str.

Shafiqul Islam; Kevin M. Smith

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part I: Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Principled Pragmatic Approach to Addressing Complex Problems Using Water Diplomacy as an Example  1 .Origins: Conceptualization, Implementation, and Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Water Diplomacy  2. Making Distinctions: The Importance of Recognizing Complexity in Coupled Natural and Human Systems  3. Working Together: An Argument for Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Collaboration  4. Principled Pragmatism: How Water Diplomats Approach Complex Water Issues?  Part II: Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Action: Case Studies from the Tufts Water Diplomacy Program  5. Operationalizing Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An Overview of Case Studies from the Tufts Water Diplomacy Program  6. Flood Diplomacy: The Hydrological, Technical, and Socio-Political Challenges of Delineating Usable Floodplain Boundaries  7. Cholera in Haiti: Why Many Efforts Have Failed and How We Can Do Better  8. Water Diplomacy at the Macro Scale:　Agricultural　Groundwater Governance in the High Plains Aquifer Region of the United States  9. Creating Flexibility in Freshwater Availability for the Eastern Nile Basin  10. Confronting the Natural Domain: Strategies for Addressing Ecology and Conservation in Complex Water Management Challenges  11. Access to Safe Drinking Water across the Navajo Nation  12. Coupling and Complexity of Natural and Human Systems: A Case Study from the Southwest Bangladesh Delta  Part III: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Reflections and Lessons from the Tufts Program on Water Diplomacy  13. Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Lessons Learned From the Tufts Water Diplomacy Program  14. Reflections on the Tufts Experiment with Interdisciplinary Water Diplomacy Researce  15. Perspectives on Water Diplomacy: Key Findings, Remaining Challenges, and Future Directions  16. Quo Vadis?

O autorze

Shafiqul Islam is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, USA.

Kevin M. Smith is a PhD candidate in environmental and water resources engineering and a member of the third cohort of Water Diplomacy graduate students at Tufts University, USA.