The Water Justice Podcast

Water Justice Hub

The Water Justice Hub acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia on which this podcast has been produced and honour their connections to land, sea and community. Riverside Chats is an occasional series of conversations with our water friends and colleagues.Executive Produced by Quentin Grafton, Convener of the Water Justice Hub, at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and edited by Michael Migali. Thank you to the guests for making this possible.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 12/22/2024

    Can we achieve SDG6? With Gabriela Sacco, Nina Lansbury, Saskia Nowicki and Sera Young

    On the latest episode of the Water Justice Hub podcast, we were fortunate enough to catch up with four special guest researchers from across the globe, who were recently in our home city of Canberra attending a workshop on Drinking Water Quality. We hear from: Gabriela Sacco, the Director of the Institute of Global Dialogue and Culture of Encounter. Nina Lansbury, Associate Professor from the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. Saskia Nowicki, Research Associate in environmental systems science from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Sera Young, Professor of Anthropology and Global Health at Northwestern University in Chicago. They offered some interesting insight into how they navigate the complex, practical realities of their work, such as managing competing interests of various stakeholders and overcoming shortfalls in data collection. Our guests also share what they’ve learned from their research projects abroad and finally, we’ll take a look at how we’re tracking to meet the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, which is ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This podcast was edited by Michael Migali and executive produced by Quentin Grafton, Convenor of the Water Justice Hub at the Australian National University. This episode’s hosts are Safa Fanaian with voice over by Kat Taylor. Music by Serge Pavkin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min
  2. Conflicting Mandates, Self Interest and Dogma - The Problem with Global Institutions: With Asit Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada

    04/15/2024

    Conflicting Mandates, Self Interest and Dogma - The Problem with Global Institutions: With Asit Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada

    Quentin Grafton is in Glasgow, Scotland, catching up with two prominent academics within the water space, Professor Cecilia Tortajada and Professor Asit Biswas. Professor Tortajada is from the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Glasgow, she is a member of the OECD Initiative on Water Governance and has twice received the Research Excellence Award from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Professor Biswas, a ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor,’ also from the University of Glasgow, has served as a senior public official in Canada, where he received the “Person of the Year” award from the Canadian Prime Minister. Cecilia and Asit discuss the challenges of international and domestic institutions and why inefficient practices still prevail despite not delivering results. They highlight the importance of pragmatism over dogma, separating clashing mandates within institutions to create a system of checks and balances, creating models to fit reality rather than fitting reality into the ‘model’ and for policy makers in offices to experience the reality of the field for themselves. This podcast was edited by Michael Migali and executive produced by Quentin Grafton, Convenor of the Water Justice Hub at the Australian National University. This episode's hosts are Quentin Grafton and Safa Fanaian. Music by Serge Pavkin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    53 min

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The Water Justice Hub acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia on which this podcast has been produced and honour their connections to land, sea and community. Riverside Chats is an occasional series of conversations with our water friends and colleagues.Executive Produced by Quentin Grafton, Convener of the Water Justice Hub, at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and edited by Michael Migali. Thank you to the guests for making this possible.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.