Crossing the Frontiers

Crossing the Frontiers: Transdisciplinary Research and the Negotiated Approach for Peri-Urban Groundwater Management in the Indo-Gangetic Delta

Hermans, L.M. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
Gomes, S.L. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
Thissen, W.A.H. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
Narain, Vishal (MDI Management Development Institute)
Kempers, Remi (Both ENDS)
Banerjee, Poulomi (SaciWATERs)
Hasan, Rezaul (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))
Salehin, Mashfiqus (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))
Alam Khan, Shah (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))
Hossain, ATM Zakir (Jagrata Juba Shangha)
Islam, Kazi Faisal (Jagrata Juba Shangha)
Huda, Sheikh Nazmul (Jagrata Juba Shangha)
Banerjee, Parthasarathi (The Researcher)
Majumdar, Binoy (The Researcher)
Majumdar, Soma (The Researcher)

2019

In this publication, we share our experiences with combining transdisciplinary research with the Negotiated Approached to address the challenges in groundwater management in peri-urban villages near Khulna, Bangladesh and near Kolkata, India. From 2014 – 2019, our team of researchers and civil society organizations has been executing the Shifting Grounds project. The project was developed as a transdisciplinary research project under the Urbanising Deltas of the World programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The Negotiated Approach, an approach for community empowerment, was used to combine research with capacity development within peri-urban communities. In this report, we capture our experiences as an interdisciplinary and international team, covering successes as well as challenges we faced in the process.

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© 2019 L.M. Hermans, S.L. Gomes, W.A.H. Thissen, Vishal Narain, Remi Kempers, Poulomi Banerjee, Rezaul Hasan, Mashfiqus Salehin, Shah Alam Khan, ATM Zakir Hossain, Kazi Faisal Islam, Sheikh Nazmul Huda, Parthasarathi Banerjee, Binoy Majumdar, Soma Majumdar