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Sustainable Water Management and Higher Education

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TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) is education and training which provides knowledge and skills for employment. TVET uses formal, nonformal, and informal learning. TVET is recognized to be a crucial vehicle for social equity, inclusion, and sustainable development.

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are usually nonprofit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to affect changes according to their objectives.

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Water sustainable management has a close relationship with higher education by integrating with the community. So, the main aim of this research is to show how development in higher education can improve water sustainable management. To address the world’s water crisis problem, higher education is...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

    Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari

  2. Department of Water Engineering, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Saeid Eslamian

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Correspondence to Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari .

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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  1. Institute of Sustainable Development, Galileo University, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Guatemala

    Nelson Amaro

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Ostad-Ali-Askari, K., Eslamian, S. (2019). Sustainable Water Management and Higher Education. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_82

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