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Global water governance and climate change: identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation

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posted on 2023-05-19, 20:04 authored by Melo Zurita, ML, Thomsen, DC, Neil HolbrookNeil Holbrook, Smith, TF, Lyth, A, Munro, PG, de Bruin, A, Seddaiu, G, Roggero, PP, Baird, J, Plummer, R, Bullock, R, Collins, K, Powell, N
A convoluted network of different water governance systems exists around the world. Collectively, these systems provide insight into how to build sustainable regimes of water use and management. We argue that the challenge is not to make the system less convoluted, but rather to support positive and promising trends in governance, creating a vision for future environmental outcomes. In this paper, we analyse nine water case studies from around the world to help identify potential ‘innovative arrangements’ for addressing existing dilemmas. We argue that such arrangements can be used as a catalyst for crafting new global water governance futures. The nine case studies were selected for their diversity in terms of location, scale and water dilemma, and through an examination of their contexts, structures and processes we identify key themes to consider in the milieu of adaptive transformation. These themes include the importance of acknowledging socio-ecological entanglements, understanding the political dimensions of environmental dilemmas, the recognition of different constructions of the dilemma, and the importance of democratized processes.

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Publication title

Water

Volume

10

Article number

29

Number

29

Pagination

1-16

ISSN

2073-4441

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

MDPIAG

Place of publication

Switzerland

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© 2018 The Authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Climate variability (excl. social impacts)

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