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World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 300-314, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Young water professionals (YWPs) have a critical role in ensuring how water resources will be managed to contribute towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To address the challenges of climate change, population growth, and urbanization, YWPs require leadership skills, transdisciplinary competencies, technical knowledge, and ...
Basant Maheshwari +14 more
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Managing floods in Chennai City as part of situation understanding and improvement project
World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 349-370, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Transdisciplinary approaches in water are important to ensure water security to everyone around the world. Recently, Young Water Professionals (YWPs) training was carried out to impart learning in transdisciplinary approaches. Besides online workshops and lectures, the training program included the Situation Understanding and Improvement ...
Sunil Shivakumar +11 more
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World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 371-387, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The focus on irrigation infrastructure development in countries like India, including a significant allocation of the government's budget, highlights the importance of achieving a high benefit–cost ratio for these projects. However, past reviews have revealed instances where irrigation projects yielded low benefits.
Annie Maria Issac +7 more
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Examining critical assumptions in global conservation practice. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract The ability of conservation practitioners to design and implement successful conservation projects and scale up positive outcomes depends in large part on their ability to make accurate assumptions about the social and ecological contexts in which their projects operate.
Opatovsky K, Pentz B, Loring PA.
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A reflective evaluation of young water professionals' transdisciplinary learning
World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 315-333, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The urgent requirement for transdisciplinary water professionals who can navigate the cascading complexities of water resources in a thirsty, inequitable world is widely acknowledged. To deliver a sustainable water resources sector, current water professionals need to synthesize diverse disciplinary knowledge, develop systemic thinking ...
Jen Dollin +9 more
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World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 294-299, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Water management has become quite complex due to population pressure, climate change, and urbanization. Future young water professionals (YWPs) need to be capable of working with real‐world situations, and they need to be suitably trained so that they can effectively communicate with decision‐makers and enable innovative ideas to be adopted in
Basant Maheshwari
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World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 334-348, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Training young water professionals in India and many other countries often focuses primarily on technical skills, leaving them ill‐prepared to deal with complex challenges and changing water management practices of the 21st century. Mentoring programs need to be designed to address the gap in competency development by incorporating ...
Basant Maheshwari +16 more
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Geospatial data and web based tools for managing irrigation infrastructure expansion projects
World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 388-403, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Improving irrigation infrastructure is important for sustaining food security in developing countries like India. The irrigation potential of a system is estimated at the planning phase using conventional approaches. A mismatch in the irrigation potential planned to be created and the land suitable for cultivation can lead to a gap in the ...
Annie Maria Issac +10 more
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Policy Studies Journal, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 551-571, August 2023., 2023 Abstract How political actors choose which politics to focus on helps shape the outcome of the policy process. While the policy agenda of the federal government has received widespread attention, there is much less known about the policy agendas of the U.S. states. In this paper, we describe how and why states choose to have similar agendas. We rely on
David A. M. Peterson +4 more
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Facilitating biodiversity conservation through partnerships to achieve transformative outcomes
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Conservation biology is a mission‐driven discipline that must navigate a new relationship between conservation and science. Because conservation is a social and political as well as an ecological project, conservation biologists must practice interdisciplinarity and collaboration.
Rehema M. White +9 more
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