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Connecting Global Water Agendas: From Wicked Problematization to Opportunities for Action

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Global water security is one of humanity's greatest challenges, yet it also represents an opportunity to catalyze transformative change. The very properties of water security that make it difficult to address also introduce potential for it to connect global agendas like climate change mitigation and adaptation planning and the sustainable development goals. We show that intergovernmental and scientific global agendas on water already embody this sentiment and highlight opportunities to better connect these agendas to accelerate action on water.

Source: Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

DOI: 10.1029/2024cn000248

Authors: B. C. Howard, W. Buytaert, S. Krause, D. M. Hannah

Institutions: Imperial College London, Lyon 1 Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, University of Birmingham

Language: English

Topic: Transboundary Water Resource Management

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Clean water and sanitation, Climate action

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: University of Birmingham, European Geosciences Union, Natural Environment Research Council