Water diplomacy

Water diplomacy focuses on establishing novel solutions founded on a scientific basis and sensitive to societal constraints to a wide range of water problems.[1] Tools of water diplomats include environmental policy, water management strategy, and engineering solutions and are applied within the context of the individual water problem at the appropriate scale.[1][2]

Emerging Approaches to Water Diplomacy

Water problems involve stakeholders such as agriculture and industry, urban developers and environmental conservationists competing for the limited and common resource of available water.[1] These problems also cross physical, disciplinary, and jurisdictional boundaries.[1][3][4] Because of these competing needs and objectives, it is difficult to find acceptable solutions to water problems.[3]

The “Water 2100” approach, differing from other tools used in water politics and traditional diplomacy, is to examine problems as an interconnected grouping of natural and societal domains in which competition and feedbacks occur between variables. The natural constraints of quantity, quality, and ecosystem needs interact with societal domain variables including social values/norms, economy, and governance. This “Water 2100” approach seeks to synthesize scientific and contextual water knowledge into actionable solutions through formulating/framing water problems as questions that can be used to negotiate solutions appropriate to the context and stakeholders for each water dispute.[3]

Organizations/Initiatives focused on water diplomacy

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Islam, S. “Water Diplomacy Welcome” .Water Diplomacy @ Tufts University. http://sites.tufts.edu/waterdiplomacy. September 2010.
  2. ↑ Islam, S., Moomaw, W., Akanda, A.S., Jutla, A.S., Schulz, A., Lin, C. and Grogan, D. AquaPedia: Building Capacity to Resolve Water Conflicts. 'Education, Knowledge and Capacity Development Strategies' session, World Water Forum 5, Istanbul, Turkey. 2009. Retrieved 01-02-2011
  3. 1 2 3 Islam, S., Y. Gao, and A. Akanda. “Water 2100: A synthesis of natural and societal domains to create actionable knowledge through AquaPedia and water diplomacy” in Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems the Proceedings of the 10th Kovacs Colloquium. Paris, France, 2010. p 193-197.
  4. ↑ Susskind, Lawrence; Shafiqul Islam (2012-08-22). "Water Diplomacy: Creating Value and Building Trust in Transboundary Water Negotiations". Science & Diplomacy. 1 (3).
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