Water Diplomacy - A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press)
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	RFF Press Water Policy Series
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Shafiqul Islam • Lawrence E. Susskind
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-1-61726-103-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
LSN:	1-61726-103-3
Barcode:	9781617261039

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