Water security: research challenges and opportunities

K Bakker - Science, 2012 - science.org
An estimated 80% of the world's population faces a high-level water security or water-related
biodiversity risk. The issue of water security—defined as an acceptable level of water-related …

Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water

M Sivapalan, G Blöschl - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present a coevolutionary view of hydrologic systems, revolving around feedbacks
between environmental and social processes operating across different time scales. This …

The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world

T Wagener, M Sivapalan, PA Troch… - Water Resources …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities exert global‐scale impacts on our environment with significant implications
for freshwater‐driven services and hazards for humans and nature. Our approach to the …

Water, people, and sustainability—a systems framework for analyzing and assessing water governance regimes

A Wiek, KL Larson - Water resources management, 2012 - Springer
Freshwater resources might become the most limited resource in the future due to rising
demands, climate change, and the degradation of aquatic ecosystems. While the urgency of …

Hydrology: The interdisciplinary science of water

RM Vogel, U Lall, X Cai, B Rajagopalan… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We live in a world where biophysical and social processes are tightly coupled. Hydrologic
systems change in response to a variety of natural and human forces such as climate …

Using agent-based modeling for water resources planning and management

EZ Berglund - Journal of Water Resources Planning and …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
Agent-based systems have been developed for many scientific applications and simulation
studies to model a group of actors and their interactions based on behavioral rules. Agent …

Toward hydro-social modeling: Merging human variables and the social sciences with climate-glacier runoff models (Santa River, Peru)

M Carey, M Baraer, BG Mark, A French, J Bury… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Glacier shrinkage caused by climate change is likely to trigger diminished and less
consistent stream flow in glacier-fed watersheds worldwide. To understand, model, and …

Develo** predictive insight into changing water systems: use-inspired hydrologic science for the Anthropocene

SE Thompson, M Sivapalan, CJ Harman… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2013 - hess.copernicus.org
Globally, many different kinds of water resources management issues call for policy-and
infrastructure-based responses. Yet responsible decision-making about water resources …

Network political ecology: Method and theory in climate change vulnerability and adaptation research

T Birkenholtz - Progress in Human Geography, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper argues for the development of 'network political ecology', drawing on the insights
from regional political ecology and recent advancements in network theories of scale, to …

Water security assessment: integrating governance and freshwater indicators

ES Norman, G Dunn, K Bakker, DM Allen… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Springer
A new approach is developed for assessing water security status: the Water Security Status
Indicators (WSSI) assessment method. The WSSI has four innovative aspects which address …