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Water Diplomacy Requires Principles and Pragmatism

January 23, 2020 Kevin Smith and Shafiqul Islam
  A Principled Pragmatic Approach allows Water Diplomats to Move from a World of Seemingly Infinite Possibilities Towards an Actionable Subset of Implementable Ideas We began this series by arguing that many important contemporary water problems emerge from a complex coupling of natural and human systems. In our second post, we argued that Water Diplomats [...]
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Orienting Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Actionable Outcomes

December 19, 2019 Kevin Smith and Shafiqul Islam
  An Argument for Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Complex Water Issues In our first post in this series, we argued that many of our current and emerging water problems arise from the inherent complexity of coupled natural and human systems. In our second post we discussed the importance of correctly identifying whether or not a [...]
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To Address the Problem, First Classify the System

December 6, 2019 Kevin Smith and Shafiqul Islam
Natural or Human? Complicated or Complex? Why does it matter? In our earlier post, we discussed how the widespread promotion of interdisciplinary water management has not come with an instruction manual on what to do and how. We recognize that many of our water problems arise from a coupling of natural and human systems. Historically, [...]
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From Universal Optimizers to Principled Pragmatists: How Complexity is Shaping Professional Water Practice

November 20, 2019 Shafiqul Islam and Kevin Smith
  In the 1960s, we addressed our water problems with reservoirs, dams and treatment facilities. At that time, a water professional’s desired outcomes could all be written down and quantified in objective functions. Today, our World is globalized.  Science, Policy, and Politics are interdependent. Change is inevitable. The pace and nature of change has accelerated [...]
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Ideals, Ideas and implementation of Interdisciplinary Scholarship: Tufts Experiment in Water Diplomacy Theory and Practice

May 26, 2017 Shafiqul Islam
The Academy – founded by Plato and transformed into the modern University – is an ideal institution to cultivate, create, and disseminate universal knowledge. Water Diplomacy is an idea –  conceived by a group of reflective water scholars and professionals in Boston in 2006 – with an ambitious goal to explore new ways to “think [...]
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2018 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) Nomination Period Open

May 2, 2017 Amanda Repella
The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) is an international award focusing on water-related scientific innovation and judged by leading scientists from around the world. Five prizes are bestowed every two years to researchers and research teams for their achievements across the 5 award categories. The awards range in value from US$133,000 [...]
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Water Diplomacy: Issues of Complexity Science and Negotiation Theory

August 27, 2015 Shafiqul Islam, Elizabeth Cooper, Larry Susskind and Yasmin Zaerpoor
Water access, demand, usage and management become complex due to the crossing of multiple boundaries: political, social and jurisdictional, as well as physical, ecological and biogeochemical. The complexity of many water issues lie in the interconnections and feedbacks among variables, processes, actors and institutions operating in the knowledge and political communities. Consequently, many water management [...]
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Understanding Climate Change from Data: What can data scientists and domain experts do to develop actionable insight?

August 10, 2015 Shafiqul Islam
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I have just returned after a two-day engaging interdisciplinary conversation with more than 70 scientists, practitioners, faculty, and students from data science, machine learning, climate science, water science, agricultural sciences, and remote sensing representing both the academic and practice community at the 5th Annual Expeditions in Computing Workshop on “Understanding Climate Change from Data”. Vipin Kumar – a [...]
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Accessing adequate water in slums: SAI workshop on water and poverty in urban slums

June 9, 2015 Amanda Repella
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This past April, Harvard’s South Asia Institute hosted a workshop on Water and Poverty in Urban Slums as a component of its annual symposium. Video of this event will be available from their website later this summer, but we have a detailed summary of the discussion among the panelists. In an attempt to better understand the [...]
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Our Reflections on WDW 2014

July 28, 2014 Shafiqul Islam and Larry Susskind
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We recently completed our 4th Water Diplomacy Workshop (WDW) with 32 participants from 16 countries. We were fortunate to have a wonderful and diverse group of people eager to listen, learn and share. We originally designed this 5-day experience to provide a practical approach to synthesizing the theory and practice of water to create actionable knowledge. We know this workshop experience is intense. Each morning, we start...
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