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DESCRIPTION:A hydroelectric power engineer as well as a resource economist\
 ,\nDipak Gyawali is a member of the Nepal Academy of Science and\nTechnolo
 gy as well as the research director of the Nepal Water\nConservation Found
 ation and the editor of its interdisciplinary\njournal\, Water Nepal. His 
 research interests are around\nsociety-technology interface\, primarily ar
 ound water and energy\nissues. He was Nepal's Minister for Water Resources
  in 2002/2003\nand is currently vice-chair of the technical committee of U
 N's\nThird World Water Assessment. He was one of the initiators of\nDuryog
  Nivaran\, a South Asian initiative promoting an alternative\nperspective 
 on disaster mitigation. Mr Dyawali is also founding\nchair of Swabalamban\
 , a poverty alleviation program of 'sustainable\ndevelopment of the poor b
 y the poor' in Nepal. Mr. Gyawali has been\na visiting scholar at the Inte
 rnational Environment Academy in\nGeneva\, the London School of Economics 
 and was a member of the\nInternational Advisory Board of Battelle Pacific 
 Northwest National\nLab (USA)\, known for its state-of-the-art study on hu
 man choice and\nclimate change as seen by the social sciences. His publica
 tions\ninclude Rivers\, Technology and Society (Zed Books\, London\,\n2003
 ).\n
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SUMMARY: Water and Development
URL:/channels/event/water-and-development-101172
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