Louise J. Bracken's research while affiliated with Northumbria University and other places

... We, as researchers need to engage with the research eco-system that shapes the partnership, creating space for mutual learning and adapt to changes in the external context [23]. For example, partnerships are influenced by the changing global funding architecture; the recent climate of UK ODA funding cuts amidst a global pandemic brought unexpected budget cuts and additional challenges to transboundary research, as highlighted by respondents, and in recent literature on research partnerships [45]. Individual and institutional action is critical but also needs to be part of a wider process of change within the broader political and funding ecosystems that shape and underpin research partnerships and maintain epistemic injustice through funding infrastructure (donors) and knowledge dissemination avenues (journals). ...

... The South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China is the world's longest inter-basin transfer project, serving more than 58 million people (Nong et al., 2020). Examples of other mega-scale IBWT projects in LMICs are the Melamchi project in Nepal (62 million m 3 /year) (Bozorg-Haddad et al., 2019), the Interlinking Rivers Project in India (178,000 million m 3 /year) (Rollason et al., 2022), and the Great Melen project in Turkey (1180 million m 3 /year) (Gönenç, 2014;Zhang et al., 2015). It is projected that inter-basin transfers will be accountable for 25 % of the global water withdrawal by 2025 (Gohari et al., 2013;Sinha et al., 2020). ...