We review the increasing body of research on urban water security. First, we reflect on the
four different focusses in water security literature: welfare, equity, sustainability and water …

Growth in the global population and the modernization of human society, along with ever-
worsening climate change, is pushing already scarce freshwater resources to their limits …

Adaptive pathways planning is an approach that maps the solution space over time to inform
decision making under uncertainty. Since its first applications to climate change adaptation …

Water security is a concept that has gained ascendance in policy circles and academic
scholarship, yet it remains loosely defined. Indeed, several review articles and edited …

Despite the central importance of water for human wellbeing and development, researchers
and practitioners have few tools to quantitatively measure, assess, and compare the scope …

Water is imperative for nutrition and health, economic productivity, and political stability; it
also holds cultural and symbolic meanings and functions. Household water insecurity is an …

This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to
advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing …

Scholars and practitioners have been working on methodologies to measure water security
at a variety of scale and focus. In this paper, we critically examine the landscape of water …

Urban water supply security is commonly measured in terms of per capita water availability
at the city level. However, the actual services that citizens receive are influenced by several …

Achieving urban water security is a major challenge for many countries. While several
studies have assessed water security at a regional level, many studies have also …