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Anyone involved in water security, development, or even peace building, will treasure this book. Jarvis makes such impressive sense that readers across sectors, disciplines or borders will be inspired to act hand in hand. This work indeed nurtures the idea that various interests can co-exist harmoniously within the context of complex but reasonable transboundary groundwater management. - Lena Salame, Programme Specialist, Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential (PCCP) Coordinator, UNESCO, Paris, France. A refreshingly unique and long awaited approach to understanding the most neglected part of the hydrologic cycle and how we interact with it. - Mark Giordano, Professor and Director of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University, USA. Population growth brings greater dependency on groundwater. Conflicts are inevitable, and resolution through litigation is often not constructive. Rather than attacking the scientists or the science, Jarvis' Hydro-Trifecta Framework offers a collaborative approach, embracing the best science to facilitate optimum resolutions. - Steve E. Clyde, Clyde Snow Attorneys, USA. This is a singular book, due not only to its transdisciplinary focus but also because the author's Hydro-Trifecta Framework may allow decision makers to move away from litigation and into a more constructive approach for solving groundwater conflicts. Part of the Earthscan Water Text series. Summing Up: Recommended. -E. Gomezdelcampo, Bowling Green State University, CHOICE April 2015 The author eloquently states that leadership and collaborative efforts may lessen the dueling expert syndrome on public decision-making process. So it is about time to have a holistic transdisciplinary approach to deal amicably with contentious issues involving hidden water sustainability. - G. Agoramoorthy, Environmental Earth Sciences, Tajen University

Anyone involved in water security, development, or even peace building, will treasure this book. Jarvis makes such impressive sense that readers across sectors, disciplines or borders will be inspired to act hand in hand. This work indeed nurtures the idea that various interests can co-exist harmoniously within the context of complex but reasonable transboundary groundwater management. - Lena Salame, Programme Specialist, Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential (PCCP) Coordinator, UNESCO, Paris, France. A refreshingly unique and long awaited approach to understanding the most neglected part of the hydrologic cycle and how we interact with it. - Mark Giordano, Professor and Director of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University, USA. Population growth brings greater dependency on groundwater. Conflicts are inevitable, and resolution through litigation is often not constructive. Rather than attacking the scientists or the science, Jarvis' Hydro-Trifecta Framework offers a collaborative approach, embracing the best science to facilitate optimum resolutions. - Steve E. Clyde, Clyde Snow Attorneys, USA. This is a singular book, due not only to its transdisciplinary focus but also because the author's Hydro-Trifecta Framework may allow decision makers to move away from litigation and into a more constructive approach for solving groundwater conflicts. Part of the Earthscan Water Text series. Summing Up: Recommended. -E. Gomezdelcampo, Bowling Green State University, CHOICE April 2015 The author eloquently states that leadership and collaborative efforts may lessen the dueling expert syndrome on public decision-making process. So it is about time to have a holistic transdisciplinary approach to deal amicably with contentious issues involving hidden water sustainability. - G. Agoramoorthy, Environmental Earth Sciences, Tajen University

Anyone involved in water security, development, or even peace building, will treasure this book. Jarvis makes such impressive sense that readers across sectors, disciplines or borders will be inspired to act hand in hand. This work indeed nurtures the idea that various interests can co-exist harmoniously within the context of complex but reasonable transboundary groundwater management. - Lena Salame, Programme Specialist, Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential (PCCP) Coordinator, UNESCO, Paris, France. A refreshingly unique and long awaited approach to understanding the most neglected part of the hydrologic cycle and how we interact with it. - Mark Giordano, Professor and Director of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University, USA. Population growth brings greater dependency on groundwater. Conflicts are inevitable, and resolution through litigation is often not constructive. Rather than attacking the scientists or the science, Jarvis' Hydro-Trifecta Framework offers a collaborative approach, embracing the best science to facilitate optimum resolutions. - Steve E. Clyde, Clyde Snow Attorneys, USA.

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W. Todd Jarvis, PhD, is Interim Director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. He is a consulting groundwater hydrologist with nearly 30 years of experience and specializes in dispute prevention and conflict resolution related to groundwater resources and water well construction.

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