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    Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Asia and the Pacific, climate change is now a well-recognised risk to water security but responses to this risk are either under reported, or continue to be guided by the incremental or business as usual approaches. Water policy still tends to remain too narrow and fragmented, compared to the multi-sectoral and cross-scalar nature of risks to water security. What’s more, current water security ... Read more

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    Rethinking Participation, Learning and Innovation

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
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