books
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- Environmental Justice and Peacebuilding: Integrating Nature in Policy and Practice
as part of a new series on Space and Practices of Justice
- Environmental Justice and Peacebuilding: Integrating Nature in Policy and Practice
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On Christmas Day in 1991, the Government of Kuwait formally accepted an offer from a group of young scuba divers to help remove underwater debris left by the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. What began as a patriotic act of post-conflict rebuilding grew into a national movement for marine conservation and environmental volunteering. This is the story of those volunteers, young Kuwaitis dedicated to preserving and protecting the rich resources and natural beauty offered by our planet’s water. It is a story of life and death, capture and rescue, wreck and restoration. It is a story meant to show you a different Middle East than you know. Read it here.
written by Becca Farnum for the Kuwait Dive Team
additional publications
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on fog harvesting:
Drops of Diplomacy“Drops of Diplomacy” presents Becca’s research on environmental diplomacy with Dar Si Hmad, a non-profit operating the world’s largest fog harvesting system.
Fog Water CollectionThis team-written interdisciplinary article explores policies, local capacities, gender inequalities, and the costs of fog harvesting projects.
Net ChangeIn the run-up to COP22, Becca and Dar Si Hmad’s leadership presented fog harvesting’s climate adaptation potential during a conference on Water, Energy, and Climate Change.
on hydro-politics:
Transboundary Water III
In “Contest & Compliance”, Zeitoun et al. consider how entrenched inequalities over water systems are challenged, reproduced, and transformed by states around the world.
Hydro-Hegemony +10
The London Water Research Group reflects on a decade of critical scholarship around hydro-hegemony, setting an expansive research agenda for the next ten years.
Law & Hydro-Hegemony
Chapter 22 of the Routledge Handbook examines “Hydro-hegemons and International Water Law” with fellow legal scholars Steph Hawkins and Mia Tamarin.
on participatory resource management:
FoodBlessed
An AMENDS initiative created by 2015 Chevening Scholar Maya Terro is showcased in this volume’s opening vignette about food waste and activism in Lebanon.
The Hydrosocial Spiral
This anthology introduces a participatory toolkit for water management re-envisioning the hydro cycle, created with UEA’s Water Security Research Centre.
Bright Futures
Becca and environmentalist Cherish Watton review Norfolk County Council’s multi-tiered mentoring approach to capacity-building in the green economy.
on study abroad:
Statecraft and Study Abroad
Becca and Dar Si Hmad’s former Ethnographic Field School Manager critique notions of “the state” in mainstream American study abroad practices.
Studying (Un)civilised States
How borders and regional assumptions shape cross-cultural exchange is examined with one of Dar Si Hmad’s Environmental Youth Ambassadors.
What’s in a Name?
Feminist scholar Amy Allen’s four types of power are brought to bear on study abroad and community relations in this brief piece for the journal’s 25th birthday.