Water security: a popular but contested concept

Pahl‐Wostl, Claudia; Gupta, Joyeeta; Bhaduri, Anik

doi:10.4337/9781782548010.00006

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“…However, what is really needed is a departure from business-as-usual for implementing the SDGs. We actively needs to meeting ecosystem needs as well (Pahl-Wostl et al, 2016). In the paper here, water security has been referred to as basic human water needs.…”

Section: Financing the Water Sdgmentioning

confidence: 99%

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: Financing the Water Sdgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Bhaduri

Bogárdi

Siddiqi

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…8,9 However, the rapid pace and scale of urban growth, combined with the impacts of climate change and economic development, is challenging the capacity of existing water systems to provide the world's cities with clean water and sanitation, and healthy and safe urban environments. 10,11 There is now widespread agreement that conventional water management approaches are ill-equipped to meet the diverse and complex needs of cities. 12 These infrastructure and governance systems remain largely influenced by twentieth century solutions and experience, which are typically characterized by fragmentation and technologically dominant solutions.…”

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Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

2020

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Many global cities and towns are facing complex and interrelated challenges associated with population growth, resource constraints, aging infrastructure, and degraded environments, exacerbated by increasing climate uncertainty. The United Nation's Agenda 2030 is a global call to action with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Water is the common currency linking nearly every SDG. SDG 11 aspires to ''Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable'' and the water-sensitive city represents an aspirational future state for water management where servicing strategies deliver long-term sustainability, liveability, resilience, and prosperity. This social-technical endeavor is based on three principles of practice proposed in 2009. They have since been operationalized and adapted in many projects globally, and across a range of social, institutional, and biophysical contexts. In this Perspective, we reflect on lessons learned, required actions for mainstreaming water-sensitive practices, the next-wave research agenda, and opportunities to catalyze actions in sectors beyond water. ll

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“…Whether using the reductionist or pluralist approaches to understand water security, one thing is clear to us – water security operates in a system, and there is need to investigate how this system operates to support sustainable access to water despite the scale at which it is considered. As noted by Pahl‐Wostl, Gupta, and Bhaduri (2016), an integrative framing of water security is vital for establishing priorities and facilitating analysis of the interaction of competing water uses and users within any given scale such as a river basin.…”

Section: Conceptualising Water Security: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Systems perspectives on water security: An applied review and conceptual framework

Chiluwe

Claassen

2020

Env Pol Gov

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This article proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the resilience of water security at the scale of a river basin, thereby contributing to the ongoing scholarship on water security. Based on literature review, we apply systems thinking and resilience theories to encapsulate water security in a river basin as a system whose behaviour depends on the interaction of the component parts and the environment within which it occurs. The proposed framework has been built on the tenet that the resilience of any system such as that for water security depends on the interactions (the relationships) of the components of the particular system. We have thus argued that there is a relationship between resilience and the configurations of the system of water security. By exploring the Orange-Senqu River Basin, we suggest that configurations of the system of water security that includes the interaction of actors within the river basin, the structure of institutions (including institutional regimes), governance mechanisms, the capacity of actors and so forth generate the changes in the behaviour of the system. This behaviour might enable the system of water security to move into a different regime. Depending on the nature of the regime, the system can be considered to be resilient or nonresilient to disturbances. Any attempt to better understand this system requires us to uncover the configurations of this system and how its parts interact with each other, and this is, therefore, the pathway to unlocking the potential of achieving water security at the scale of a river basin.

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Water security: a popular but contested concept

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

Systems perspectives on water security: An applied review and conceptual framework

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