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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.
- Sales Rank: #971537 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-07-26
- Released on: 2012-07-26
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Review
"Water Diplomacy is a great addition to the existing literature on water negotiations and conflict management." - W. Todd Jarvis, Oregon State University, in Ground Water (2012).
"This book offers a water diplomacy framework that challenges conventional wisdom in water resources research and practice. It focuses on networks rather than systems and value creation rather than zero-sum thinking. The selected readings, commentaries, and simulations provide essential grounding that is invaluable to water resources students, researchers and professionals." – Helen Ingram, University of Arizona and Founding Warmington Endowed Chair, University of California at Irvine.
"Water management, both in terms of quantity and quality, leaves much to be desired in nearly all countries of the world. Thus, all over the world we see tensions developing between various stakeholders of different water uses. An important question is how these tensions can be diffused peacefully and in a timely manner? In this must read book, Islam and Susskind address this complex question and discuss the processes and alternatives that can be successfully used in a logical and easily understandable manner" – Asit K. Biswas, founder and president, Third World Centre for Water Management, Atizapan, Mexico, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School for Public Policy, Singapore.
"This is an unusual book in several respects. Notwithstanding a lot of lip-service to the need for interdisciplinary research and integrated policies in the water sector, such endeavours are rarely undertaken in full seriousness by disciplinarily trained end disposed academics. The two authors, and their network and programme, are certainly an exception to that observation. Here is brought together solid science from the natural/hydrological and the social/political sciences to address one of the major challenges of our time: the management and governance of complex water resources problems and conflicts. It is one of the very first efforts to rethink existing reductionist approaches to water across the boundaries of the natural and social sciences by putting the notion of 'complexity' centre-stage, particularly the ontological complexity of water resource processes (their non-linearity and unpredictability), and the societal complexity of the contested management and governance of water resources, requiring an adaptive and (non zero sum) negotiation-based approach in networks.
The epistemological complexity of water knowledge comes to the fore much less - in that sense the book is firmly located in the tradition of problem solving oriented water studies. Illustrative of this is also that in the main text of the book explicit theorisation of 'social power' or 'social relations of power' is hardly found, notwithstanding the centrality of 'politics' in the overall approach. The book is also unusual in the sense that it provides an excellent teaching tool, by including and commenting on key readings for the 'water diplomacy framework' that is developed and advocated, and by the narratives and the Indopotamia role play simulation that are part of the book.
All in all this book is a very original effort to push the thinking and policy making on water resources management in the direction of a more realistic and contextualised 'strategic action' perspective, away from standardisation and rational planning, and it is certain to spark a lot of, most welcome, discussion and debate." – Peter P. Mollinga, Professor of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
The book addresses a topic that will surely need further attention, in terms of management and governance. The use of the term ‘diplomacy’ brings the network aspect into focus at all spatial levels. Islam and Susskind have established their approach with an ‘all winning proposition’, offering stakeholders a strategic view, rather than a restrictive standardized engineering based planning perspective. – Progress in Development Studies, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay (Retd) with help from Shouvik Das and Tuhin Bhadra, Centre for Development and Environment Policy, Indian Institute of Management, India
About the Author
Shafiqul Islam is the first Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering and Professor of Water Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is the Director of the Water Diplomacy Initiative. His research group―a diverse network of national and international partners―integrates theory and practice to create actionable water knowledge He has published over 100 refereed journal and other publications.
Lawrence E. Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served on the faculty for 40 years. He is also Vice-Chair for Instruction at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, which he helped found in 1982, and where he heads the MIT–Harvard Public Disputes Program, and teaches advanced negotiation courses. In 1993, Susskind created the Consensus Building Institute.
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Review of Water Diplomacy - Refreshingly Compelling!
By Faisal Hossain
Water Diplomacy, by Shafiqul Islam and Lawrence Susskind provides a refreshingly compelling alternative to overcoming the dynamic socio-political and socio-economic constraints of water resources that can only be addressed in a `diplomacy' framework rather than the technically rigid approach of today's water sharing practice.
We have known for a long time that water is the single most intimately linked as a resource with other key resources such as human health, food, energy and ecosystem function. Yet, the pedagogical treatment of our water resources for equitable sharing among diverse and competing stakeholders has historically not admitted the complex networks that emerge because of these resource interdependencies. Conventional approach has also treated the constraints originating from human and natural feedbacks as static and embraced the classical game theory of zero-sum problems. Water Diplomacy recognizes this inherent limitation of current practice to water sharing negotiations and argues that the non-zero sum game (where a benefit of one `competing' stakeholder can potentially be regarded as a benefit for all in the constituency) is much more suited for the 21st century. The book provides a compelling argument for this communal approach, promoted as "Water Diplomacy Framework (WDF)", by drawing from a rich body of literature on water resources negotiation and real-world examples of what has worked and what has not.
The Water Diplomacy book provides the necessary resources, tools and examples for practitioners keen on following the non-zero-sum game approach to water negotiations. This is done by providing a role-play simulation in the last chapter. If there is any major shortcoming of the book, it is on the lack of addressing the exciting future of technology that beckons water resources management. The Water Diplomacy book avoids dwelling on how current and emerging water measurement technology, made affordable and free for most stakeholders, would impact the concept of the WDF approach in the near future. In the conventional zero-sum game approach, competing parties have usually withheld selective information to play the game to their maximum advantage. Can an independent and free source of water information that is supposed to be unbiased encourage competing parties to abandon the zero-sum game and embrace the more altruistic non-zero-sum game founded on a shared vision? Although it may be a little premature to dwell on such emerging satellite emissions, many readers would have certainly benefitted from such a discussion as a conclusion chapter in an otherwise excellent and very timely book.
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An Excellent and Exceptionally Unique Book on Solving Water Conflicts
By Itzchak E. Kornfeld
Review by Itzchak Kornfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The issue of water management has been in the spotlight for decades. During the 1950s and 1960s water scholars and popular writers focused on water quality. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, and into the current one, however, the world began to witness droughts across the African Continent, throughout the Middle East, the Far East, and North America, and the impacts of global warming/climate change. Now, water quantity is the issue that is at center stage. Indeed, water will surely be "the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and stability of many countries in the twenty first century."
Over the past two decades numerous books have described the phenomenon of water shortage. This book is a refreshing change to the status quo and is singular in its approach. For that reason it should be a welcomed addition to one's bookshelf; as it enhances our understanding of surf ace water and groundwater from the perspective of watersheds. Moreover, this book's contribution is unique in its "how to", i.e., it is aimed at solving problems.
That is, the authors offer the reader a unique perspective into the water shortage debate: A management approach. In this regard this book is cutting edge and a refreshing narrative of an extremely important subject. Moreover, Islam and Susskind explore the potential for water conflicts, and water scarcity from a networks [stochastic] perspective. Their thesis for water systems is that they are open, complex, and have constantly changing inputs. Indeed, in the authors' own words, "[t]he components of each water resource management puzzle can fit together in so many different ways that it is practically impossible to use `reductionist' or traditional `systems engineering' methodologies to resolve water management conflicts."
In order to demonstrate how complex open networks are Islam & Susskind offer an example of this thesis, by employing the Apalachicola-Chattahoochie-Flint (ACF) river basin, which is shared by three states: Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. (Ibid. at 10 - 12). The ACF basin drains an area of 19, 800 square miles, and some 2.6 million people depend on it for their water. (Ibid. at 10). As with every water basin when water needs are minimal, precipitation regular, and there are few stakeholders, the need for water management is minimal, and that was true of the ACF, from the 1960s until a series of droughts occurred during the 1980s, according to the authors. But, once precipitation was curtailed, the number of stakeholders increased, demand for water grew, and socio-economic conditions changed, e.g., McMansion type subdivisions grew, friction began and progressed into conflicts.
Other drivers of conflict included additional inputs into this network. These comprised federal and state legal issues, and challenges to the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency charged with managing the ACF. Some of the challenges were made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state agencies as well as non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"). Rather than result in agency capture - the phenomenon where the regulated entity in effect controls the regulated community and the regulations that are promulgated by the agency - in this instance the result was agency competition, which created rivalries between the various agencies.
The foregoing demonstrates how a network or system that is initially simple, i.e., has a few inputs, can quickly turn into a complex one, with a growing number of variables or inputs over time. As I was reading the material about the ACF (located in chapter 2) I began to wonder whether the network will behave stochastically. However, it is clear that the inputs are highly predictable and not at all random. That is, there will always be an increase in water use, a diminishing resource and numerous public and private stakeholders. This lack of randomness is a valuable feature of the authors' network analysis, as it allows government workers, NGOs and others to focus on resolving any disputes, rather than finding more and more inputs, which would only increase the level of hostilities between the parties to a dispute.
The books has seven chapters, each of which builds on the other. Taking a different tact from that of other authors, the opening chapter of this book begins with a "water management fable". The fable begins with "once upon a time", as do many others. However, this tale is about a country called Indopotamia, where three separate tribes settled along different parts of a river. The fable continues with the complications that arise due to a lack of cooperation during an episode of water shortage. This fable establishes the foundation for the rest of the book, as the authors routinely return to it during the course of their journey in constructing their narrative. Islam & Susskind final chapter (ch. 7) ends, where it began, with Indopotamia. Here, the authors employ the various cooperative dispute resolution stratagems that they developed in chapter 2 - 6. Again, this chapter delves into practical solutions for water conflicts.
The book also has an excellent reference section, which will assist those who wish to learn more about the subject or wish to pursue further research.
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Water and Diplomacy
By Augustus
This is an excellent book for an overview on the intricate links between water and diplomacy, which are often neglected in the water sciences. Over the years, we have been able to make significant progress in water resources management, such as construction of dams etc., however, there appears to be a constant competition between various stakeholders of water over years. Somehow even after so much progress, we fail to understand new and emerging conflicts as well as politics behind water problems. The book exactly provides the context on how we can think differently on conflicting such problems in a holistic manner. Although this book provides a qualitative understanding and comprehension, yet it lacks in mathematical or "workable" solutions. However, the book is very well written and easy to follow. I enjoyed the reading it and would recommend to those who want to go beyond traditional knowledge of water resources, especially to engineers working at the interface of water and society!!
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