Position: Jean Monnet Research Fellow
School and/or Centres: Centre for European Studies
Position: Graduated PhD Student
School and/or Centres: Centre for European Studies
Email: Ehsan.Nabavi@anu.edu.au
Location: External
Qualification: B.Sc. (Civil Engineering), M.Sc. (Civil Engineering, water resource engineering), PhD
Dr Ehsan (Tavakoli-)Nabavi holds his both B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Civil Engineering. His researches and publications particularly during his Master in Water Resources at the Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) were focused on Sustainable Development, Integrated Water Resource Management, Systems Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Theory.
He joined the ANU School of Sociology in September 2012 to look at the issue of water conflict through the insights provided by contemporary social theories, particularly Actor-Network Theory (ANT). His research focuses on understanding water conflict formation, evolution, and transformation against the backdrop of Anthropocene, particularly in the Middle East and the Central Asia.
His research interests span three broad areas: water resources system sustainability and governance; STS with a particular interest in Actor-Network Theory (ANT); and conflict theories. The underlying motivation for his research concerns examining and understanding ‘water conflict construction’ as the interface of his research interest areas.
He is looking at how problem and solution framings of different parties in a conflict are co-produced and influenced by social-cultural, and political factors; and, in what ways they feedback into society. This collectively imagined form of ‘conflict order’ held by different parties—which stems from a particular understanding and insight into water and conflict—is the domain that he is currently interested in exploring.
He has been awarded research fellowship in the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2016-2017).
In 2015 he was also a visiting scholar at Centre for Water and Development, School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) at University of London and Center for Development Research (ZEF) at University of Bonn.
• Water and environmental policy and governance
• Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
• Conflict Analysis; Water Conflict Transformation
• Sustainable Development: strategic planning, risk assessment
• Politics of Water Resources and Sustainability
• Systems Thinking; System Dynamics Modelling
• Interactive Theatre
Book Chapters
“Politics of innovation and the spirit of justice”, Daniell, K., Nabavi,E. Benham, C. In: Lukasiewicz, (eds.) Natural Resources and Environmental Justice: Australian perspectives. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 185-203.
“Integrated Water Resource Management and Sustainability”, Najafi, H., Tavakoli-Nabavi, E., In S. Eslamian (Ed.), Handbook of Engineering Hydrology (pp. 365-386). Environmental Hydrology and Water Management: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2014.
Papers
“(Ground)Water Governance and Legal Development in Iran, 1906-2016”, Nabavi,E., Journal of Middle East Law and Governance (In Press, 2017)
“Boundary Matters: The Potential of System Dynamics to Support Sustainability?”, Nabavi,E., Daniell, K., Najafi, H. Journal of Cleaner Production (2016), doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.032
Rediscovering Social–Ecological Systems: Taking Inspiration from Actor-Networks. Nabavi, E., Daniell, K., Journal of Sustainability Science (2016), DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0386-0
“System Dynamic Approach to Hydropolitics in Hirmand Transboundary River Basin from Sustainability Perspective”, Bazrkar, M. H., Tavakoli-Nabavi, E., Zamani, N., Eslamian, S., International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology (IJHST), Vol. 3, No. 4, 2013.
“Who speaks for water in a time of crisis? An Iranian perspective” Nabavi, Ehsan, Journal of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews -Water (under review)
“Who Acts? Exploring Sustainability Actor-Networks”, Nabavi, E., Journal of Sustainability Science (submitted, 2016)
“Water, Governance, and Geopolitics: A Historical Analysis on the Meaning of Water in the Iranian Context”, Nabavi, Ehsan, (ready for submission)
“Blending Description and Explanation: Towards a (Transdisciplinary) Sociology of Water Conflict (I, II)”, Nabavi, Ehsan, (ready for submission)
“Water Conflict Transformation: A Deliberative Pathway”, Nabavi, Ehsan, (ready for submission)
“Pathways Theatre and Water Conflict Transformation”, Nabavi, Ehsan, (ready for submission)
“Water Conflict in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Landscape of Research”, Nabavi, Ehsan, (ready for submission)
“More than Actor, More than Network: A visual guide to the complex language of Actor-Network Theory”, Nabavi, Ehsan, (ready for submission)