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Coexisting Conflict and Cooperation: a different way of describing transboundary waters

March 27, 2015 Tahira Syed

Reflecting on Transboundary Water Politics to Mark World Water Day 2015

March 22, 2015 Naho Mirumachi

Keeping Iceland’s Water Safe at the National Level

February 17, 2015 Sigurdur Gardarsson

Planning for water or for development? Hydro-centric or hydro-supportive approaches to food, energy and water security

October 22, 2014 Mike Muller

Water Scarcity in the Yellow River Basin: Energy, Economics, Institutions and Responses

April 25, 2014 Scott Moore

Framework Perspectives for Water: a small sample of the range of frameworks for addressing questions about water

January 31, 2014 Amanda Repella

Frameworks Theory and Model as nested concepts

Water 2030: defining and initiating pathways to address the supply-demand gap

January 24, 2013 Amanda Repella

Matching Risks and Rewards: researcher’s goals, practitioner’s decisions, and flood risk management practices

January 20, 2013 Amanda Repella

Flood risk management seeks to prevent and mitigate disastrous outcomes from flood events through built infrastructure, management of control devices, land-use planning, flood prediction and emergency management planning. Researchers from NCAR and the University of Colorado interviewed decision makers at multiple levels and scientists who study flood risks and prediction to better understand how flood risk research questions are studied and how actual risk management decisions are made to better inform the researchers who seek to provide the information that will improve flood risk management decision making. However, while scientists often assume that more specific scientific information that reduces uncertainty about flood timing or magnitude will lead to better flood prediction and flood management policies, the diverse group of practitioners involved in the policy and management decision process may need different information that better addresses the realities of their decision making environment.

Narrative of Complacency: international donor perceptions and narratives helped to perpetuate irrigation system problems in Indonesia

January 7, 2013 Amanda Repella

International donors promote the widespread adoption of various policy trends and are able to influence policy with developing countries through funding schemes. The perceptions of international donors and dominant policy narratives may not align with the development conditions at the local or national levels, which can lead to ineffective development funding and perpetuate a cycle of ineffective policy and programs. Dr. Diana Suhardiman of the International Water Management Institute and Dr. Peter Mollinga of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, examined the international donors and dominant policy narratives over the past five decades in Indonesian irrigation policy and used this detailed case study to illustrate that when national policies are strongly shaped by international trends, there is a potential that assumptions about causal mechanisms or organizational motivations may lead to financial and institutional arrangements that cannot produce the desired outcome and may perpetuate or exacerbate a negative result.