Featured Research from our Network (FRETWORK)
Regular Issues of FRETWORK:FRETWORK Easter 2011
- Professor Dr Patricia Wouters and Professor Dan Tarlock writing on the urgent for lawyers to be in the avant garde of "reframing the water security dialogue" beyond a narrow military-security focus in favour of a broad and inclusive approach that opens up genuine advantages to policy makers and populations globally.
- The Legal Assessment Model (LAM) is a research classic of the IHP-HELP Centre, providing a bridge between academics and policy makers, between the disciplines of water science - law - and economics, and between international and national water law.
- The importance of International Relations/ Political Science as a vital part of the water security nexus is recognised through the research work of our colleauge in nearby St Andrews University, Professor Ian Taylor, Professor in International Relations at their School of International Relations.
FRETWORK Spring 2011
- Professor Dr Patricia Wouters writing on the paradigm lock between International Law and International Relations/ Political Science perspectives on water, by way of a book review.
- Dr Sarah Hendry writing on the need for a strong water law, policy and science interface that also facilitates strong stakeholder engagement, all of which are objectives of the IHP-HELP programme under whose UNESCO's auspices this Centre operates.
- Professor Chris J Spray MBE hydrological science paper and accompanying presentation on the Eddleston Water restoration project, an important river basin pilot in the Tweed (which is a HELP basin) examining how habitat restoration and natural flood management can be put into practice through a participatory approach.
- The personal reflections of internationally renowned water-blogger David Zetland, a senior water economist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, including a personal reflection on the malign historic influence of Scottish thinking on our lawns and gardens in terms of their hungry water use.
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