Teaching Water Resources Management at The University of the West Indies by D...
Arjen Zegwaard "Can we know a Delta?"
1. Communities and Institutions for Flood Resilience
Turning Tides?
Can we know a Delta?
from understanding a delta to decision making
Arjen Zegwaard, PhD candidate
Irrigation and Water Engineering group, Wageningen University
&
Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam
arjen.zegwaard@wur.nl
2. Content of presentation
• Introduction:
understanding, decision making and Deltas
• Approach
Social Study of Science and Technology
• Climate change as a game changer
The Dutch Dealing with the Delta and blue-green algae
• BanglaDutch
Studying the Bangladesh-Netherlands water management link
• Two questions
3. Introduction
What is a Delta?
How does it work?
conceptions;
problems;
time/space;
technologies;
histories/futures;
...
4. Approach
• Social Studies of Science and technology
• Actor Network Approach
How?
• (in depth) Interviewing
• Participant observation
• Document analysis
