Connect with us

Fitness

Moving from fit to fitness for governing water in the Anthropocene – Nature Water

Published

on

Moving from fit to fitness for governing water in the Anthropocene – Nature Water

  • Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox, Version 2 (Global Water Partnership, 2003).

  • Molle, F. Nirvana concepts, narratives and policy models: insights from the water sector. Water Altern. 1, 131–156 (2008).


    Google Scholar
     

  • Bertule, M. et al. Monitoring water resources governance progress globally: experiences from monitoring SDG indicator 6.5.1 on integrated water resources management implementation. Water 10, 1744 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Pacheco-Vega, R. Governing urban water conflict through watershed councils—a public policy analysis approach and critique. Water 12, 1849 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Young, O. The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay and Scale (MIT Press, 2002).

  • Moss, T. & Newig, J. Multilevel water governance and problems of scale: setting the stage for a broader debate. Environ. Manage. 46, 1–6 (2010).

    Article 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Herrfahrdt-Pähle, E. Applying the concept of fit to water governance reforms in South Africa. Ecol. Soc. 19, 25 (2014).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Ekstrom, J. A. & Young, O. R. Evaluating functional fit between a set of institutions and an ecosystem. Ecol. Soc. 14, 16 (2009).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Bodin, Ö., Nohrstedt, D. & Orach, K. A diagnostic for evaluating collaborative responses to compound emergencies. Prog. Disaster Sci. 16, 100251 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Folke, C., Pritchard, L. Jr., Berkes, F., Colding, J. & Svedin, U. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: ten years later. Ecol. Soc. 12, 38 (2007).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Vatn, A. & Vedeld, P. Fit, interplay and scale: a diagnosis. Ecol. Soc. 17, 11 (2012).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Molle, F. Water, politics and river basin governance: repoliticizing approaches to river basin management. Water Int. 34, 62–70 (2009).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Huitema, D. & Meijerink, S. The politics of river basin organizations: institutional design choices, coalitions and consequences. Ecol. Soc. 22, 42 (2017).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Ochoa-Garcia, H. & Rist, S. Water justice and integrated water resources management: constitutionality processes favoring sustainable water governance in Mexico. Hum. Ecol. 46, 51–64 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Chereni, A. The problem of institutional fit in integrated water resources management: a case of Zimbabwe’s Mazowe catchment. Phys. Chem. Earth Parts ABC 32, 1246–1256 (2007).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Garrick, D., Alvarado-Revilla, F., Loë de, R. C. & Jorgensen, I. Markets and misfits in adaptive water governance: how agricultural markets shape water conflict and cooperation. Ecol. Soc. 27, 2 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Rockström, J. et al. The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience‐based perspective on water for global sustainability. Ecohydrology 7, 1249–1261 (2014).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Vörösmarty, C. J., Pahl-Wostl, C., Bunn, S. E. & Lawford, R. Global water, the anthropocene and the transformation of a science. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 5, 539–550 (2013).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Sivapalan, M., Savenjie, H. H. & Blöschl, G. Socio-hydrology: a new science of people and water. Hydrol. Process. 26, 1270–1276 (2012).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • York, A. M., Sullivan, A. & Bausch, J. C. Cross-scale interactions of socio-hydrological subsystems: examining the frontier of common pool resource governance in Arizona. Environ. Res. Lett. 14, 125019 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Montanari, A. et al. ‘Panta Rhei—Everything Flows’: change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022. Hydrol. Sci. J. 58, 1256–1275 (2013).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Thompson, S. E. et al. Developing predictive insight into changing water systems: use-inspired hydrologic science for the Anthropocene. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 17, 5013–5039 (2013).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Savenije, H. H. G., Hoekstra, A. Y. & van der Zaag, P. Evolving water science in the Anthropocene. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 18, 319–332 (2014).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Gain, A. K. et al. Social-ecological system approaches for water resources management. Int. J. Sustain. Dev. World Ecol. 28, 109–124 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Scanlon, B. R. et al. Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 4, 87–101 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Te Wierik, S. A., Gupta, J., Cammeraat, E. L. & Artzy-Randrup, Y. A. The need for green and atmospheric water governance. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Water 7, e1406 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Newig, J., Challies, E., Cotta, B., Lenschow, A. & Schilling-Vacaflor, A. Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability. Ecol. Soc. 25, 21 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Tran, T. A. & Tortajada, C. Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: in search of institutional fit. Environ. Policy Gov. 32, 331–347 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Wheeler, S., Ringler, C. & Garrick, D. Carbon’s social cost can’t be retrofitted to water. Nature 617, 252 (2023).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Erős, T., Hermoso, V. & Langhans, S. D. Leading the path toward sustainable freshwater management: reconciling challenges and opportunities in historical, hybrid and novel ecosystem types. WIREs Water 10, e1645 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Epstein, G. et al. Institutional fit and the sustainability of social-ecological systems. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 14, 34–40 (2015).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Whaley, L. Water governance research in a messy world: a review. Water Altern. 15, 218–250 (2022).


    Google Scholar
     

  • Cotta, B. et al. Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda. Earth Syst. Gov. 13, 100142 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Keys, P. W. et al. Anthropocene risk. Nat. Sustain. 2, 667–673 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Coenen, J. et al. Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows. Ecol. Soc. 28, 24 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • de Loë, R. C. & Patterson, J. J. Rethinking water governance: moving beyond water-centric perspectives in a connected and changing world. Nat. Resour. J. 57, 75–100 (2017).


    Google Scholar
     

  • Falkenmark, M. & Rockström, J. The new blue and green water paradigm: breaking new ground for water resources planning and management. J. Water Resour. Plan. Manag. 132, 129–132 (2006).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Jaramillo, F. & Destouni, G. Comment on ‘Planetary boundaries: guiding human development on a changing planet’. Science 348, 1217 (2015).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Wang-Erlandsson, L. et al. A planetary boundary for green water. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 3, 380–392 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Di Baldassarre, G. et al. Perspectives on socio-hydrology: capturing feedbacks between physical and social processes. Water Resour. Res. 51, 4770–4781 (2015).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Keys, P. W., Wang-Erlandsson, L. & Gordon, L. J. Revealing invisible water: moisture recycling as an ecosystem service. PLoS ONE 11, e0151993 (2016).

    Article 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • D’Odorico, P. et al. The global food‐energy‐water nexus. Rev. Geophys. 56, 456–531 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Rulli, M. C. et al. Interdependencies and telecoupling of oil palm expansion at the expense of Indonesian rainforest. Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 105, 499–512 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Wang, Y. et al. Complex regional telecoupling between people and nature revealed via quantification of trans‐boundary ecosystem service flows. People Nat. 4, 274–292 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Liu, J., Yang, W. & Li, S. Framing ecosystem services in the telecoupled Anthropocene. Front. Ecol. Environ. 14, 27–36 (2016).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Gleeson, T. et al. Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene. Water Resour. Res. 56, e2019WR024957 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Schumacher, D. L. et al. Amplification of mega-heatwaves through heat torrents fuelled by upwind drought. Nat. Geosci. 12, 712–717 (2019).

    Article 
    CAS 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Gimeno, L. et al. Recent progress on the sources of continental precipitation as revealed by moisture transport analysis. Earth Sci. Rev. 201, 103070 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Keys, P. W., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Gordon, L., Galaz, V. & Ebbesson, J. Approaching moisture recycling governance. Glob. Environ. Change 45, 15–23 (2017).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Lawrence, D. & Vandecar, K. Effects of tropical deforestation on climate and agriculture. Nat. Clim. Change 5, 27–36 (2015).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Li, H. et al. Land-atmosphere feedbacks contribute to crop failure in global rainfed breadbaskets. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 6, 51 (2023).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Deines, J. M., Liu, X. & Liu, J. Telecoupling in urban water systems: an examination of Beijing’s imported water supply. Water Int. 41, 251–270 (2016).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Zhang, J. et al. Complex effects of natural disasters on protected areas through altering telecouplings. Ecol. Soc. 23, 9 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Hull, V. & Liu, J. Telecoupling: a new frontier for global sustainability. Ecol. Soc. 23, 41 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • D’Odorico, P. et al. Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers and socio-environmental impacts. Environ. Res. Lett. 14, 053001 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Du, Y., Zhao, D., Qiu, S., Zhou, F. & Peng, J. How can virtual water trade reshape water stress pattern? A global evaluation based on the metacoupling perspective. Ecol. Indic. 145, 109712 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Yang, W. et al. Urban water sustainability: framework and application. Ecol. Soc. 21, 4 (2016).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Yao, Y., Sun, J., Tian, Y., Zheng, C. & Liu, J. Alleviating water scarcity and poverty in drylands through telecouplings: vegetable trade and tourism in northwest China. Sci. Total Environ. 741, 140387 (2020).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Mehta, L., Veldwisch, G. J. & Franco, J. Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources. Water Altern. 5, 193–207 (2012).


    Google Scholar
     

  • Dell’Angelo, J., Rulli, M. C. & D’Odorico, P. The global water grabbing syndrome. Ecol. Econ. 143, 276–285 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Huo, F., Jiang, Z., Ma, H., Li, Z. & Li, Y. Reduction in autumn precipitation over Southwest China by anthropogenic aerosol emissions from eastern China. Atmos. Res. 257, 105627 (2021).

    Article 
    CAS 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Sillmann, J. et al. Extreme wet and dry conditions affected differently by greenhouse gases and aerosols. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 2, 24 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Paul, S. et al. Weakening of Indian summer monsoon rainfall due to changes in land use land cover. Sci. Rep. 6, 32177 (2016).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Tuinenburg, O. A. Atmospheric Effects of Irrigation in Monsoon Climate: The Indian Subcontinent. PhD thesis, Wageningan Univ. (2013).

  • Boers, N., Marwan, N., Barbosa, H. M. J. & Kurths, J. A deforestation-induced tipping point for the South American monsoon system. Sci. Rep. 7, 41489 (2017).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Huggins, X. et al. Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss. Nat. Commun. 13, 439 (2022).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • van Vliet, M. T. et al. Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies. Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 024020 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Franzke, C. L. et al. Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling. Environ. Res. Lett. 17, 015004 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Zhao, Y., Wei, Y., Wu, B., Lu, Z. & Fu, L. A connectivity-based assessment framework for river basin ecosystem service management. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 33, 34–41 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Levia, D. F. et al. Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle. Nat. Geosci. 13, 656–658 (2020).

    Article 
    CAS 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Chen, Z. M. & Chen, G. Q. Virtual water accounting for the globalized world economy: national water footprint and international virtual water trade. Ecol. Indic. 28, 142–149 (2013).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Moss, T. Spatial fit, from panacea to practice: implementing the EU Water Framework Directive. Ecol. Soc. 17, 2 (2012).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Newig, J., Schulz, D. & Jager, N. W. Disentangling puzzles of spatial scales and participation in environmental governance—the case of governance re-scaling through the European Water Framework Directive. Environ. Manage. 58, 998–1014 (2016).

    Article 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Ison, R., Alexandra, J. & Wallis, P. Governing in the Anthropocene: are there cyber-systemic antidotes to the malaise of modern governance? Sustain. Sci. 13, 1209–1223 (2018).

    Article 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Schmeier, S. The institutional design of river basin organizations—empirical findings from around the world. Int. J. River Basin Manag. 13, 51–72 (2015).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Falkenmark, M., Jägerskog, A. & Schneider, K. Overcoming the land-water disconnect in water-scarce regions: time for IWRM to go contemporary. Int. J. Water Resour. Dev. 30, 391–408 (2014).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Pahl-Wostl, C. Governance of the water-energy-food security nexus: a multi-level coordination challenge. Environ. Sci. Policy 92, 356–367 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Granit, J. et al. A conceptual framework for governing and managing key flows in a source-to-sea continuum. Water Policy 19, 673–691 (2017).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Rockström, J. et al. The planetary commons: a new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 121, e2301531121 (2024).

    Article 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Falkenmark, M. & Wang-Erlandsson, L. A water-function-based framework for understanding and governing water resilience in the Anthropocene. One Earth 4, 213–225 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Gupta, J., Pahl-Wostl, C. & Zondervan, R. ‘Glocal’ water governance: a multi-level challenge in the Anthropocene. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 5, 573–580 (2013).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Haller, T., Fokou, G., Mbeyale, G. & Meroka, P. How fit turns into misfit and back: institutional transformations of pastoral commons in African floodplains. Ecol. Soc. 18, 34 (2013).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Meijerink, S. & Huitema, D. The institutional design, politics and effects of a bioregional approach: observations and lessons from 11 case studies of river basin organizations. Ecol. Soc. 22, 41 (2017).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Garrick, D. E., Schlager, E., De Stefano, L. & Villamayor‐Tomas, S. Managing the cascading risks of droughts: Institutional adaptation in transboundary river basins. Earths Future 6, 809–827 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Ingold, K. et al. Misfit between physical affectedness and regulatory embeddedness: the case of drinking water supply along the Rhine River. Glob. Environ. Change 48, 136–150 (2017).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Curran, D., Gleeson, T. & Huggins, X. Applying a science-forward approach to groundwater regulatory design. Hydrogeol. J. 31, 853–871 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Poelina, A. et al. Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing. Aust. J. Environ. Educ. 38, 397–414 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Curley, A. & Smith, S. theorize global time and how do we center indigenous and black futurities? Environ. Plan. E Nat. Space 7, 166–188 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Terry, N. et al. Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature: introducing the Entangled Time Tree. Environ. Sci. Policy 151, 103615 (2024).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Hertog, T. On the Origin of Time: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller (Random House, 2023).

  • Sturtevant, C. et al. Identifying scale-emergent, nonlinear, asynchronous processes of wetland methane exchange. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci. 121, 188–204 (2016).

    Article 
    CAS 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Keys, P. W. & Falkenmark, M. Green water and African sustainability. Food Secur. 10, 537–548 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Rocha, J. C., Peterson, G., Bodin, Ö. & Levin, S. Cascading regime shifts within and across scales. Science 362, 1379–1383 (2018).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Krueger, E. H. et al. Resilience dynamics of urban water supply security and potential of tipping points. Earths Future 7, 1167–1191 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Rockström, J. et al. Identifying a safe and just corridor for people and the planet. Earths Future 9, e2020EF001866 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Barnett, J. et al. From barriers to limits to climate change adaptation: path dependency and the speed of change. Ecol. Soc. 20, 11 (2015).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Scott, C. A., Shrestha, P. P. & Lutz-Ley, A. N. The re-adaptation challenge: limits and opportunities of existing infrastructure and institutions in adaptive water governance. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 44, 104–112 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Medeiros, P. & Sivapalan, M. From hard-path to soft-path solutions: slow-fast dynamics of human adaptation to droughts in a water scarce environment. Hydrol. Sci. J. 65, 1803–1814 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Peterson, T. J., Saft, M., Peel, M. C. & John, A. Watersheds may not recover from drought. Science 372, 745–749 (2021).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Di Baldassarre, G. et al. Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects. Nat. Sustain. 1, 617–622 (2018).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Punzo, G. & Arbabi, H. The intrinsic cybernetics of large complex systems and how droughts turn into floods. Sci. Total Environ. 859, 159979 (2023).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Delaroche, M., Dias, V. M. & Massoca, P. E. The intertemporal governance challenges of Brazil’s Amazon: managing soybean expansion, deforestation rates and urban floods. Sustain. Sci. 18, 43–58 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • He, X. et al. Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 40, 43–54 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Qi, W., Feng, L., Yang, H. & Liu, J. Increasing concurrent drought probability in global main crop production countries. Geophys. Res. Lett. 49, e2021GL097060 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Ye, Y. & Qian, C. Conditional attribution of climate change and atmospheric circulation contributing to the record-breaking precipitation and temperature event of summer 2020 in southern China. Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 044058 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Chatzopoulos, T., Domínguez, I. P., Toreti, A., Adenäuer, M. & Zampieri, M. Potential impacts of concurrent and recurrent climate extremes on the global food system by 2030. Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 124021 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Niggli, L., Huggel, C., Muccione, V., Neukom, R. & Salzmann, N. Towards improved understanding of cascading and interconnected risks from concurrent weather extremes: analysis of historical heat and drought extreme events. PLoS Clim. 1, e0000057 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Anderson, W. B., Seager, R., Baethgen, W., Cane, M. & You, L. Synchronous crop failures and climate-forced production variability. Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw1976 (2019).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Mehrabi, Z. & Ramankutty, N. Synchronized failure of global crop production. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 3, 780–786 (2019).

    Article 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Kornhuber, K. et al. Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions. Nat. Clim. Change 10, 48–53 (2019).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Posada-Marín, J. A., Arias, P. A., Jaramillo, F. & Salazar, J. F. Global impacts of El Niño on terrestrial moisture recycling. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, e2023GL103147 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Di Capua, G. et al. Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 4, 55 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Nyström, M. et al. Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem. Nature 575, 98–108 (2019).

    Article 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Nagabhatla, N., Cassidy-Neumiller, M., Francine, N. N. & Maatta, N. Water, conflicts and migration and the role of regional diplomacy: Lake Chad, Congo Basin and the Mbororo pastoralist. Environ. Sci. Policy 122, 35–48 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Chelleri, L., Waters, J. J., Olazabal, M. & Minucci, G. Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience. Environ. Urban. 27, 181–198 (2015).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Trimble, M. et al. How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America. Ecol. Soc. 27, 42 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Piemontese, L. et al. Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands. Nat. Clim. Change 14, 267–274 (2024).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Nguyen, M. N. et al. An understanding of water governance systems in responding to extreme droughts in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Int. J. Water Resour. Dev. 37, 256–277 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Fanta, V., Šálek, M. & Sklenicka, P. How long do floods throughout the millennium remain in the collective memory?. Nat. Commun. 10, 1105 (2019).

    Article 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Song, S. et al. Improving representation of collective memory in socio‐hydrological models and new insights into flood risk management. J. Flood Risk Manag. 14, e12679 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Garcia, M. et al. Weathering water extremes and cognitive biases in a changing climate. Water Secur. 15, 100110 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Bukhari, H. & Brown, C. A comparative review of decision support tools routinely used by selected transboundary River Basin Organisations. Afr. J. Aquat. Sci. 47, 318–337 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Lemos, M. C., Puga, B. P., Formiga-Johnsson, R. M. & Seigerman, C. K. Building on adaptive capacity to extreme events in Brazil: water reform, participation and climate information across four river basins. Reg. Environ. Change 20, 53 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Stoler, J. et al. The role of water in environmental migration. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Water 9, e1584 (2022).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Hussein, H. et al. Syrian refugees, water scarcity and dynamic policies: how do the new refugee discourses impact water governance debates in Lebanon and Jordan? Water 12, 325 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Cosens, B. et al. Governing complexity: integrating science, governance and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 118, e2102798118 (2021).

    Article 
    CAS 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Keys, P. W. et al. The dry sky: future scenarios for humanity’s modification of the atmospheric water cycle. Glob. Sustain. 7, e11 (2024).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Tanguay, L. et al. Opportunities for and barriers to anticipatory governance of two lake social-ecological systems in Germany and Canada. People Nat. 5, 911–928 (2023).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Herrfahrdt-Pähle, E. et al. Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions. Glob. Environ. Change 63, 102097 (2020).

    Article 
    PubMed 
    PubMed Central 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Schmidt, J. J. & Peppard, C. Z. Water ethics on a human‐dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Water 1, 533–547 (2014).

    Article 

    Google Scholar
     

  • Continue Reading