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Water Diplomacy - A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks (Hardcover)
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Water Diplomacy - A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks (Hardcover)
Series: RFF Press Water Policy Series
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Water is the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and
stability of many countries in the twenty-first century. This book
offers a new approach to managing water that will overcome the
conflicts that emerge when the interactions among natural,
societal, and political forces are overlooked. At the heart of
these conflicts are complex water networks. In managing them,
science alone is insufficient and so is policy-making that doesn't
take science into account. Solutions will only emerge if a
negotiated or diplomatic approach that blends science, policy, and
politics is used to manage water networks. The authors show how
open and constantly changing water networks can be managed
successfully using collaborative adaptive techniques to build
informed agreements among disciplinary experts, water users with
conflicting interests, and governmental bodies with countervailing
claims. Shafiqul Islam is an engineer with over twenty-five years
of practical experience in addressing water issues. Lawrence
Susskind is founder of MIT's Environmental Policy and Planning
Program and a leader of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law
School. Together they have developed a text that is relevant for
students and experienced professionals working in a variety of
engineering, science, and applied social science fields. They show
how new thinking about water conflict can replace the zero-sum
battles that pit experts, politicians, and stakeholders against
each other in counter-productive ways. Their volume not only
presents the key elements of a theory of water diplomacy; it
includes excerpts and commentary from more than two dozen seminal
readings as well as practice exercises that challenge readers to
apply what they have learned.
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