Water at COP25: Resilience enables climate change adaptation through better planning, governance and finance

Harou, Julien J.; Matthews, John; Smith, D. Mark; McDonnell, Rachael; Borgomeo, Edoardo; Sara, Jennifer J.; Braeckman, Judith Plummer; Matthews, Nathanial; Dalton, James C.; Young, Mike; Ovink, Henk; Mumba, Musonda; Shouler, Martin; Markkanen, Sanna; Vicuña, Sebastián

doi:10.1680/jwama.173.2020.2.55

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“…Accordingly, the main reports suggested political leaders must foster collaboration among government agencies and openly involve other actors (private sector, civil society, the public), put in place effective planning and regulatory regimes, and support management of waters systems through cooperation based upon agreements and joint management bodies. COP25 sessions also discussed water managers' governance responsibilities: (i) to propose and articulate policies and investments to decisionmakers that enable development despite unknown climate change, water management, and other changes; (ii) to prioritize investments for leaders to fund, based on their ability to cost-effectively achieve high social, environmental, and economic value; and (iii) to help other resource system policy-makers (energy, food, environment) appreciate water linkages to facilitate effective and efficient cross-sector policies and collaboration (Harou et al 2020).…”

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Water Governance and Social Learning: Approaches, Tools, and Challenges

Ricart

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Water governance includes the range of political, social, economic, and administrative systems that develop and manage water resources and water service delivery at different levels of society. Social learning constitutes a reflective practice, experimentation, shared understanding, and utilization of diversity for gaining and sharing new knowledge (individually or collectively) to enable change. Participation refers to an exchange forum to facilitate communication between government, key stakeholders, and end-users. That is a feasible framework for generating new ideas, theories, methods, techniques, and a favorable context for the review, verification, adjustment, and redesign of existing knowledge. The concept, however, can also be interpreted as an opportunity to influence topics that are motivating confronted points of view. Stakeholder engagement constitutes the practice of interacting with and be influenced by according to the overall benefit of the project and its advocates. The successful completion of a project usually depends on how the stakeholders perceive it. Their requirements, expectations, perceptions, personal agendas, and concerns will influence the project, shape what success looks like, and affect the outcomes that can be achieved. Successful engagement depends on understanding who to engage with (key stakeholders), for what reason (scope, purpose, challenge), from what perspective (culture, values), and with what methods (techniques, tools).

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Section: Participation: Who Is Involved and Why?mentioning

confidence: 99%