ON RISKY GROUND: THE WATER PROFESSIONAL IN POLITICS

Management of drainage basins and political risks. The goal of this paper is “to argue that willingness to take the further risk of engaging with the political world is the only way we have any realistic hope of changing for the better the ways people think and act”. This is the key to improving coordination and shared learning in the management of drainage basins and environmental systems generally. Water professionals need to be both empowered and enabled to take this risk.