Water Resilience: Water Justice
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 4342
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing incidence of water stress and water shocks around the world have led to a rising interest in the concept of water resilience amongst academics and policy-actors alike. Scholarly contributions consider both the resilience of water bodies to natural or anthropogenic events and the resilience of communities and communities to water shocks or to water stress, such as flooding, drought or water insecurity. In this Special Issue we invite papers that bring new perspectives to bear on water resilience, particularly those that consider the capacities to cope, adapt or to transform in the face of episodic shocks or longer-term changes in circumstance. We also welcome papers considering notions of agency and the role of institutions and context in mediating outcomes. We look to combine perspectives that consider physical or engineered components of water resilience with those that consider institutional norms, processes and pluralities of knowledge, particularly in the lived realities of everyday lives. Of course, water resilience is nothing if it is neither just nor sustainable and so we invite contributions that seek to embed concepts of justice and sustainability into our understanding of water resilience.
Dr. Adrian Healy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water resilience
- water justice
- water stress
- agency
- transformation and transitions
- adaptive pathways
- coping strategies
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