Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises

Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises

The world faces multiple water crises, including overextraction, flooding, ecosystem degradation and inequitable safe water access. Insufficient funding and ineffective implementation impede progress in water access, while, in part, a misdiagnosis of the causes has prioritized some responses over ot...

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Main Authors: Grafton, RQ, Fanaian, S, Horne, J, Katic, P, Nguyen, N-M, Ringler, C, Robin, L, Talbot-Jones, J, Wheeler, SA, Wyrwoll, PR, Avarado, F, Biswas, AK, Borgomeo, E, Brouwer, R, Coombes, P, Costanza, R, Hope, R, Kompas, T, Kubiszewski, I, Manero, A, Martins, R, McDonnell, R, Nikolakis, W, Rollason, R, Samnakay, N, Scanlon, BR, Svensson, J, Thiam, D, Tortajada, C, Wang, Y, Williams, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2024
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Summary:The world faces multiple water crises, including overextraction, flooding, ecosystem degradation and inequitable safe water access. Insufficient funding and ineffective implementation impede progress in water access, while, in part, a misdiagnosis of the causes has prioritized some responses over others (for example, hard over soft infrastructure). We reframe the responses to mitigating the world’s water crises using a ‘beyond growth’ framing and compare it to mainstream thinking. Beyond growth is systems thinking that prioritizes the most disadvantaged. It seeks to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation by overcoming policy capture and inertia and by fostering place-based and justice-principled institutional changes.

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