Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy: A Principled and Pragmatic Approach

ISBN-13: 9781138369283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 306 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.

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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?