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Collaboration to Counter Fresh Water Scarcity and Promote Human Security

In: Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development

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  • Michael Fratantuono
  • Sarah House
  • Sam Weisman

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In the autumn of 2017, two professors and 13 undergraduate students from Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US) engaged in 3 weeks of field research in Nepal. The students were assigned to one of four teams. Each was assisted by a pair of graduate students affiliated with Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal). Each team conducted numerous semi-structured interviews in one of four wards of the Panchkahl Municipality of Kavrepalanchok District. When they returned to the US, each student team generated a 50-page report that summarized their findings. To frame the findings of those reports, the authors of this chapter constructed a basic yet original systems model. Their analysis suggests: (1) the importance of collaboration among system participants as the key to developing the capabilities needed to adapt to fresh water shortages and enhance prospects for human security and (2) the need for further system transformation to further promote adaptation.

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  • Michael Fratantuono & Sarah House & Sam Weisman, 2021. "Collaboration to Counter Fresh Water Scarcity and Promote Human Security," Chapters, in: Suriyanarayanan Sarvajayakesavalu & Pisit Chareonsudjai (ed.), Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:215084
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93693
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    Keywords

    climate change; fresh water; human security; collaboration; subcommunities; adaptation; systems analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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