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Water and Diplomacy: Integration of Science, Engineering, and Negotiations
It is often said that "water is the new oil." Indeed, water promises to be the resource that determines many countries' wealth, welfare, and stability in the 21st century. The nature of water as a resource is changing. Water resources are increasingly over-used, water quality is sub-optimal, and ecological integrity is excessively taxed. Such tensions are exacerbated at dynamic political, physical, cultural, and economic boundaries. A changing world requires a changing education. This interdisciplinary seminar -- co-taught by faculty from Engineering, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy -- is designed to encourage students to think across boundaries, emphasize knowledge integration, and link information to action. The goal is to combine multiple perspectives in order to explore solutions to water conflicts and the negotiations required to achieve those solutions. The seminar will emphasize collaborative learning opportunities, co-teaching of classes by students and faculty, and integrative activities that span disciplinary, physical, and political boundaries. Students will collectively produce a state-of-knowledge "white paper" and contemporary water related "case studies" that will be disseminated to a global audience and revised by future students and faculty. We envision these case studies to form the basis of a global community of water professionals to interact and learn from each other through our collaborative network we call AQUAPEDIA.
Faculty:
Shafiqul Islam
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Dean of Research
School of Engineering
William Moomaw
Professor
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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