Grafton, R Quentin;
Fanaian, Safa;
Horne, James;
Katic, Pamela;
Nguyen, Nhat-Mai;
Ringler, Claudia;
Robin, Libby;
... Williams, John; + view all
(2024)
Rethinking responses to the world's water crises.
Nature Sustainability
10.1038/s41893-024-01470-z.
(In press).
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Rethinking responses to the world's water crises |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41893-024-01470-z |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01470-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Environmental economics, Interdisciplinary studies, Sustainability, Water resources |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203534 |
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