Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter

Macpherson, Elizabeth; Cuppari, Rosa I.; Kagawa‐Viviani, Aurora; Brause, Holly; Brewer, William A.; Grant, William E.; Herman‐Mercer, Nicole; Livneh, Ben; Neupane, Kaustuv Raj; Petach, Tanya; Peters, Chelsea N.; Wang, Hsiao‐Hsuan; Pahl‐Wostl, Claudia; Wheater, Howard

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Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter

2024
By Macpherson, Elizabeth ; Cuppari, Rosa I. ; Kagawa‐Viviani, Aurora ; ...

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WIREs Water
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Macpherson, Elizabeth ; Cuppari, Rosa I. ; Kagawa‐Viviani, Aurora ; Brause, Holly ; Brewer, William A. ; Grant, William E. ; Herman‐Mercer, Nicole ; Livneh, Ben ; Neupane, Kaustuv Raj ; Petach, Tanya ; Peters, Chelsea N. ; Wang, Hsiao‐Hsuan ; Pahl‐Wostl, Claudia ; Wheater, Howard
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
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Global water systems are facing unprecedented pressures, including climate change‐driven drought and escalating flood risk, environmental contamination, and over allocation. Water management and governance typically lack integration across spatial scales, including relationships between surface and ground water systems. They also routinely ignore connectivity across temporal scales, including the need for intergenerational water planning. As a global and interdisciplinary group of scientists, we seek to highlight how power and scale dynamics influence and determine water outcomes. We argue that attending to complex water systems challenges requires understanding the function and influence of power at different temporal and spatial scales. Building this understanding is key to designing multi‐scalar, reflexive, and pluralistic policy solutions that avoid ineffective or unintended outcomes. We use a co‐learning process to reveal important lessons for the challenge of interdisciplinary research and set a pluralist agenda for understanding power and scale in future water governance.
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WIREs Water, 11(5)
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https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1734
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2049-1948 ; 2049-1948
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Wiley
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Journal Article
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Grant no. NA21OAR4310309
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