Adaptive water governance involves collaboration among multiple actors, social learning,
and flexibility to deal with shocks and surprises. Crises thus become a useful context to …

Abstract The Global South is usually underrepresented in comparative water governance
studies. Latin America has abundant water resources but is the most unequal region in …

River cetaceans are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic impacts due to their
constrained ranges in freshwater systems of China, South Asia, and South America. We …

Reducing and reversing current trends of groundwater depletion will require development of
resilient systems for groundwater governance. Yet establishment of such systems requires …

Water quality and availability is critical for sustaining life on earth. However, lack of access to
potable water and safe sanitation services for billions of people, deteriorating infrastructure …

Ecological restoration is a means of addressing the ongoing and pervasive degradation of
ecological systems. Although the aim of ecological restoration is ecosystem recovery, efforts …

The relationship between power dynamics and decision making in natural resource
management is central to explaining governance outcomes. Contemporary catchment …

Proposed and actual developments of hydraulic fracturing, as a high-volume water user,
have proven contentious in recent years. However, one point of agreement has emerged …

Increasing scholarship has focused on a shift in scientific water paradigm in the 21st century
from an understanding of water systems as stationary, predictable and command‐and …

Groundwater depletion is a global concern. Around the world, groundwater supplies more
than half the water used for agriculture and human drinking. Many other species and …