Boundary Science: Re-imagining Water-Energy-Food Interactions in the Context of a Data Light Approach to Monitoring the Environment- Development Nexus

Mathew Kurian is consortium lead for the Belmont Forum project on cyber-enabled disaster resilience involving partners at Penn State University, Cranfield University, University of Sao Paulo, UNHABITAT, Geneva and Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Tanzania. He was previously head of the Capacity Development and Governance Unit at United Nations University, Germany where he established the Africa Points of Excellence consortium on drought risk monitoring by negotiating agreements with respective ministries in Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania. He served as the focal point for implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNU-FLORES and UNHABITAT focused on development, validation and pilot-testing of a monitoring methodology for Sustainable Development Goal target 6.3. Dr Kurian previously served as a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist at The World Bank and has held faculty positions at University College London (UK) and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Netherlands). He began his career as a Robert S. McNamara Fellow at Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) and subsequently served as a Dutch government supported Associate Expert at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) offices in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia. Dr. Yu Kojima has Ph.D. degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands and she has over 14 years of international experience in the area of gender, migration and development through programme management/gender research for public policy and planning and advocacy in Asia and the Pacific region. Yu offers expertise drawn from combination of experience in both academic and policy research while she brings in development planning experience earned through working with several UN agencies including UNDP, UNIFEM and UNICEF-Innocenti Research Cenre. Yu served as an Expert on Migration, Women and Mobility- Asia for the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in Barcelona, Spain. Yu is also a member of Regional Gender Specialist Group hosted by UNICEF in Asia and a member of Gender Specialist Roster, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) based in Rome, Italy.

• 1. Why Boundary Science?2. Blind Spots in Environmental Governance3. A data light approach to monitoring the environment-development Nexus4. Experiential learning via environmental backcasting: How open-access platforms can promote multidimensional modelling through multiple sites of engagement