This paper reviews the boundary concepts that have emerged in interdisciplinary irrigation studies in South Asia, particularly India. The focus is concepts that capture the hybridity of irrigation systems as complex systems, and cross the boundaries of the natural and social sciences. Concepts...

This paper discusses how to go about designing an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research project or programme, with ZEF's research initiative on "water pollution and human health" in India as the background of the presentation. A summary is given of Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn's (2007) main...

Previous analysis of transboundary water governance has been focused primarily on state-centred approaches. The articles in this special section move us forward from this focus in three ways. First, they highlight the crucial role played by non-state actors in shaping water governance outcomes....