Towards a sustainable water future: shaping the next decade of global water research

Pahl‐Wostl, Claudia; Vörösmarty, Charles J; Bhaduri, Anik; Bogárdi, János J.; Rockström, Johan; Alcamo, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2013.10.012

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“…Obviously, there are still serious unresolved scientific, professional, and also societal challenges involved (Pahl-Wostl et al, 2013). It is not perceivable that conclusive answers will be found before the implementation of SDGs starts and inherent monitoring and indicator related decisions have to be made.…”

Section: Accelerating Innovations For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The governance systems in both industrialized and developing countries lack the capacity to handle these challenges and uncertainties (Pahl-Wostl et al, 2013;Pahl-Wostl, 2015). Superimposing the different elements of global change, the question thus arises of how sustainable human development can be ensured while safeguarding earth's vital life-support system on which the welfare of current and future generation depends?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Bhaduri

Bogárdi

Siddiqi

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Efforts to meet human water needs at local scales may cause negative environmental externalities and stress on the water system at regional and global scales. Hence, assessing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets requires a broad and in-depth knowledge of the global to local dynamics of water availability and use. Furthermore, interactions and trade-offs between different SDG targets may lead to sub-optimal or even adverse outcomes if the set of actions are not properly pre-designed to consider such inter-linkages. Thus, scientific research and evidence have an important role to play in facilitating the implementation of SDGs through assessments and policy engagement from global to local scales. This paper addresses some of these challenges related to implementation and monitoring of the targets of the SDGs from a water perspective, based on the key findings of a conference organized in 2015 focused on three essential aspects of SDGs: indicators, inter-linkages, and implementation. The paper argues that indicators should not be too simple and should ultimately deliver sustainability measures. The paper highlights that remote sensing and earth observation technologies can play a key role in supporting the monitoring of water targets. It also recognizes that implementing SDGs is a societal process of development, and there is a need to link how SDGs relate to public benefits and to communicate this to the broader public.

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Section: Accelerating Innovations For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Bhaduri

Bogárdi

Siddiqi

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Thus, human behaviors have become the most important factor affecting natural environment (Pahl-Wostl 2013). The damage and the impact exceed the earth's ecological carrying capacity, which results in irreversible damage to the ecological environment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Study on the Impact of Environmental Education on Individuals’ Behaviors Concerning Recycled Water Reuse

Liu

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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In order to verify whether environmental education can play guiding role among the individuals in terms of the reuse of recycled water, and to further confirm its mechanism of action, a structural equation model was established in this study regarding to the influence of knowledge about recycled water on acceptability of recycled water. Besides, a survey was made among 714 individuals. The structural equation model revealed that high levels of knowledge about recycled water stimulate individuals' trust in water authorities, and reduce their perceived risk of recycled water. More specially, knowledge about recycled water was reported to be a significant predictor of individuals' acceptability of recycled water. Individuals' high levels knowledge about recycled water can affect their acceptability of recycled water indirectly through two different ways, while high levels knowledge about recycled water can reduce the individuals' perceived risk of recycled water, so it could increase their acceptability of recycled water indirectly. Another influence path is that high levels knowledge about recycled water could reduce individuals' perceived risk of recycled water by improving their trust in the water authorities, and ultimately improve their acceptability of recycled water. In this paper, it has proved that environmental education has significance guiding effect on individuals in terms of the use of recycled water, and provided a clue as how does environmental education affects individuals' behavior to use recycled water.

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“…The importance of using resilience in the coupled humanwater context is increasingly evident in both academic and public policy fields, ranging from aquatic ecosystem conservation (Khamis et al, 2013;Sala et al, 2000) to hydrological risk management (Adger et al, 2005;Hallegatte et al, 2013) and sustainable water use and development (Pahl-Wostl et al, 2013;Vorosmarty et al, 2000). For the reasons explained already, it is critical to clarify the character of resilience in socio-hydrological contexts which in turn is determined by the human-water coupling type.…”

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HESS Opinions: A conceptual framework for assessing socio-hydrological resilience under change

Mao

Clark

Karpouzoglou

et al. 2017

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Despite growing interest in resilience, there is still significant scope for increasing its conceptual clarity and practical relevance in socio-hydrological contexts: specifically, questions of how socio-hydrological systems respond to and cope with perturbations and how these connect to resilience remain unanswered. In this opinion paper, we propose a novel conceptual framework for understanding and assessing resilience in coupled socio-hydrological contexts, and encourage debate on the inter-connections between socio-hydrology and resilience. Taking a systems perspective, we argue that resilience is a set of systematic properties with three dimensions: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative, and contend that socio-hydrological systems can be viewed as various forms of human-water couplings, reflecting different aspects of these interactions. We propose a framework consisting of two parts. The first part addresses the identity of socio-hydrological resilience, answering questions such as "resilience of what in relation to what". We identify three existing framings of resilience for different types of human-water systems and subsystems, which have been used in different fields: (1) the water subsystem, highlighting hydrological resilience to anthropogenic hazards; (2) the human subsystem, foregrounding social resilience to hydrological hazards; and (3) the coupled human-water system, exhibiting socio-hydrological resilience. We argue that these three system types and resiliences afford new insights into the clarification and evaluation of different water management challenges. The first two types address hydrological and social states, while the third type emphasises the feedbacks and interactions between human and water components within complex systems subject to internal or external disturbances. In the second part, we focus on resilience management and develop the notion of the "resilience canvas", a novel heuristic device to identify possible pathways and to facilitate the design of bespoke strategies for enhancing resilience in the socio-hydrological context. The resilience canvas is constructed by combining absorptive and adaptive capacities as two axes. At the corners of the resulting twodimensional space are four quadrants which we conceptualise as representing resilient, vulnerable, susceptible, and resistant system states. To address projected change-induced uncertainties, we recommend that efforts now be focused on shifting socio-hydrological systems from resistant towards resilient status. In sum, the novel framework proposed here clarifies the ambiguity inherent in socio-hydrological resilience, and provides a viable basis for further theoretical and practical development.

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Towards a sustainable water future: shaping the next decade of global water research

Cited by 68 publications

References 21 publications

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

A Study on the Impact of Environmental Education on Individuals’ Behaviors Concerning Recycled Water Reuse

HESS Opinions: A conceptual framework for assessing socio-hydrological resilience under change

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