Keywords:
Water-supply-Management.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780429767975
Series Statement:
Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5983418
DDC:
333.91
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 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 sociopolitical 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.
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14 Reflections on the Tufts experiment with interdisciplinary Water Diplomacy research -- 15 Perspectives on Water Diplomacy: key findings, remaining challenges, and future directions -- 16 Quo Vadis? -- Index.
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