Crossing the Frontiers
Transdisciplinary Research and the Negotiated Approach for Peri-Urban Groundwater Management in the Indo-Gangetic Delta
L.M. Hermans (TU Delft - Policy Analysis)
SL Gomes (TU Delft - Policy Analysis)
W.A.H. Thissen (TU Delft - Policy Analysis)
Vishal Narain (MDI Management Development Institute)
Remi Kempers (Both ENDS)
Poulomi Banerjee (SaciWATERs)
Rezaul Hasan (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))
Mashfiqus Salehin (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))
M. Shah Alam Khan (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))
ATM Zakir Hossain (Jagrata Juba Shangha)
Kazi Faisal Islam (Jagrata Juba Shangha)
Sheikh Nazmul Huda (Jagrata Juba Shangha)
Parthasarathi Banerjee (The Researcher)
Binoy Majumdar (The Researcher)
Soma Majumdar (The Researcher)
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Abstract
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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