Thanks for your comment Marla and glad you liked the post. The book you mention looks like an interesting one to pick up, and in general the approach is intriguing from what I had a limited time to read up on today. While it appears to be dominantly applied in public health situations, I can see how this approach might also be quite useful in identifying less commonly used adaptive strategies related to water management. I saw a really great talk today from one my colleagues in Cairo (Edwin Rap: https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/about/staff-list/edwin-rap/) about farmers adapting their irrigation strategies when there are major changes in the overall flows through canal systems, which may be caused by any number of factors from environmental to political decisions. Questions arose then as to whether there should be efforts to integrate such rare innovative designs into re-engineering irrigation structures, or do you just leave the situation continue in this organic fashion. Issues of course hinge in this situation on government regulation often and whether there is active enforcement of these often illegal structures or modifications.
Thanks for your comment Marla and glad you liked the post. The book you mention looks like an interesting one to pick up, and in general the approach is intriguing from what I had a limited time to read up on today. While it appears to be dominantly applied in public health situations, I can see how this approach might also be quite useful in identifying less commonly used adaptive strategies related to water management. I saw a really great talk today from one my colleagues in Cairo (Edwin Rap: https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/about/staff-list/edwin-rap/) about farmers adapting their irrigation strategies when there are major changes in the overall flows through canal systems, which may be caused by any number of factors from environmental to political decisions. Questions arose then as to whether there should be efforts to integrate such rare innovative designs into re-engineering irrigation structures, or do you just leave the situation continue in this organic fashion. Issues of course hinge in this situation on government regulation often and whether there is active enforcement of these often illegal structures or modifications.