Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Message from Dean Herrmann On April 13, 2017, Pace University's Dyson College of Arts and Sciences hosted its ird Summit on Resilience: Water Cooperation and Conflict: e Local and Global Challenge. is summit, co-sponsored by the Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, is part of a series that Dyson College originated and continues to host at Pace University to explore current approaches to managing local, regional, and national issues in order to improve sustainability and enhance resilience. As part of the Summit, we asked faculty from several of Pace's schools – Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, the Lubin School of Business, and the School of Education – to write high quality, publishable research papers that reflect ideas they encountered or that were inspired by their attendance at the summit. e Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences published a special issue that included the papers in this booklet, which are being reprinted with their permission. We are proud to continue our tradition of providing the setting where thought leaders have the opportunity to collaborate, share knowledge, bring new ideas forward, and develop potential solutions for the critical challenges we face. is ird Summit convened distinguished experts and practitioners from the public, academic, and private sectors to discuss collaborative problem- solving strategies for the protection and sharing of water resources, ranging from transboundary conflicts, to local water scarcity, to pollution, to watershed management, and inequitable distribution. We were fortunate to hear from a number of prestigious speakers during the Summit, including Michael Berkowitz, managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation and president of 100 Resilient Cities, Jon Freedman, vice president, Global Partnerships and Policy, at General Electric Water and Process Technologies, and Dr. Peter Gleick, president emeritus and chief scientist, at the Pacific Institute. We are extremely grateful for their participation and insights on this crucial topic. We are proud, as well, of the thoughtful and considered ideas put forth by our faculty in this collection of academic essays on water resilience and public-private partnerships. e perspectives that Pace faculty bring to these essays span the disciplines and underscore the complex nature of resiliency as it relates to the protection and sharing of water resources. I thank you for your interest in this important subject and look forward to seeing you at the next Summit on Resilience. Sincerely, Nira Herrmann, PhD Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

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