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Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy
A Principled and Pragmatic Approach
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy
Edited by Shafiqul Islam and Kevin M. Smith · Routledge · 2019
- ISBN · eBook
- 9780429428760
- ISBN · hardback
- 9781138369283
- ISBN · paperback
- 9781032084893
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. 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 programs to address other complex problems in any setting.
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Table of contents
Part I
Problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration
pp. 1–69
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Origins: Conceptualization, implementation, and evolution of an interdisciplinary graduate program on Water Diplomacy
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-1/origins
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Making distinctions: The importance of recognizing complexity in coupled natural and human systems
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-2/making-distinctions
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Working together: An argument for problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-3/working-together
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Principled pragmatism: How Water Diplomats approach complex water issues
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-4/principled-pragmatism
Read → pp. 55–69
Part II
Problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration in action
pp. 71–239
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Operationalizing problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration: An overview of case studies from the Tufts Water Diplomacy program
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-5/operationalizing-problem-driven-interdisciplinary-collaboration
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Flood diplomacy: The hydrological, technical, and sociopolitical challenges of delineating usable floodplain boundaries
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-6/flood-diplomacy
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Cholera in Haiti: Why many efforts have failed and how we can do better
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-7/cholera-in-haiti
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Water Diplomacy at the macro scale: Agricultural groundwater governance in the High Plains Aquifer region of the United States
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-8/water-diplomacy-at-the-macro-scale
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Creating flexibility in freshwater availability for the Eastern Nile Basin
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-9/creating-flexibility-in-freshwater-availability-for-the-eastern-nile-basin
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Confronting the natural domain: Strategies for addressing ecology and conservation in complex water management challenges
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-10/confronting-the-natural-domain
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Access to safe drinking water across the Navajo Nation
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-11/access-to-safe-drinking-water-across-the-navajo-nation
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Coupling and complexity of natural and human systems: A case study from the southwest Bangladesh delta
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-12/coupling-and-complexity-of-natural-and-human-systems
Read → pp. 224–239
Part III
Looking back and looking forward
pp. 241–296
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Evaluation of an interdisciplinary graduate program: Lessons learned from the Tufts Water Diplomacy program
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-13/evaluation-of-an-interdisciplinary-graduate-program
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Reflections on the Tufts experiment with interdisciplinary Water Diplomacy research
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-14/reflections-on-the-tufts-experiment-with-interdisciplinary-water-diplomacy-resea
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Perspectives on Water Diplomacy: Key findings, remaining challenges, and future directions
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-15/perspectives-on-water-diplomacy
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Quo Vadis?
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429428760-16/quo-vadis
Read → pp. 292–296