Changing Flows: Sociotechnical Tinkering for Adaptive Water Management

Quimby, Barbara; Nichols, Claire; Bray, Margaret V. du; Cantor, Alida; Bausch, Julia C.; Wutich, Amber; Williams, Clinton F.; Porter, Sarah; Eaton, Weston M.; Brasier, Kathryn J.

doi:10.1007/s00267-022-01744-2

Environmental Management

2022

DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01744-2

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Changing Flows: Sociotechnical Tinkering for Adaptive Water Management

Barbara Quimby

Claire Nichols

Margaret V. du Bray

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Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures

Beresford,

Adams,

Budds

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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An increasing number of studies find that water sharing—the non-market transfer ofprivately held water between households—is a ubiquitous informal practice around the worldand a primary way that households respond to water insecurity. Yet, a key question abouthousehold water sharing remains: is water sharing a viable path that can help advance householdwater security? Or should water sharing be understood as a symptom of water insecurity in waitfor more formalized solutions? Here, we address this question by applying Sen’s entitlementframework in an integrative review of empirical scholarship on household water sharing. Ourreview shows that when interhousehold water sharing is governed by established and well-functioning norms it can serve as a reliable transfer entitlement that bolsters household watersecurity. However, when water sharing occurs outside of established norms (triggered by broaderentitlement failures) it is often associated with significant emotional and social distress that mayexacerbate conditions of water insecurity. These findings suggest that stable, norm-based watersharing arrangements may offer a viable, adaptive solution to households facing water insecurity.Nevertheless, more scholarship is needed to better understand when and how norm-based watertransfer entitlements fail, the capacity of water sharing practices to evolve into lasting normativeentitlements, and the impact of interhousehold water sharing on intrahousehold water security.

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Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures

Beresford,

Adams,

Budds

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The governance of hydrosocial risk in peri‐urban South Australia

Bardsley,

Winsborough,

Skinner

et al. 2024

Geographical Research

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Climate change is generating levels of environmental risk that are jeopardising modern development. As the management of water systems becomes more difficult, approaches to governance and engagement within regions are increasingly shaping adaptation successes and failures. We use theory on hydrosocial systems and risk to critically analyse stakeholder experiences of a transition in South Australian water management in peri‐urban Adelaide, with detail from the Langhorne Creek viticultural region. Local prescription of water resources has limited over‐exploitation and supported landowners to use water in sophisticated ways. When community stakeholders deliberated on common concerns with governance organisations for mutually beneficial outcomes, decision‐making supported successful hydrosocial adaptation. Ongoing challenges, such as a lack of confidence in the scientific knowledge guiding decisions, were accentuated when the process was politicised and engagement became inauthentic. If trust between governance organisations and local stakeholders is broken, it is difficult to re‐engage the farming community with adaptation decision‐making. In contrast, by working closely with community end‐users, government can enable appropriate behaviour and guide adaptive management. Attention to hydrosocial processes will be crucial to facilitate effective local adaptation policy in response to climate risk.

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Changing Flows: Sociotechnical Tinkering for Adaptive Water Management

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Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures

Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures

The governance of hydrosocial risk in peri‐urban South Australia

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