‘Ways of knowing’ water: integrated water resources management and water security as complementary discourses

Indigenous Perspectives on Water Security in Saskatchewan, Canada

“…Water security is presented in the literature as meeting short and long-term needs to enable access to sufficient water quality, at a fair price, for human health, safety, welfare, and productive capacity [6]. In addition, water security has been linked to the political, social, and economic power of people in society [7,8]. With a few notable exceptions [9][10][11], the literature is largely silent on the meaning of water security from an Indigenous perspective, a condition that has motivated this paper.…”

Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

“…Over the past decade, water security has emerged as a new currency of the international water community (Cook and Bakker, 2012). It can broadly be seen as an extension of sustainable development thinking to water resources with the focus on the quantity and quality of water supply for societal and ecological needs (Gerlak and Mukhtarov, 2015). There is an extensive and growing body of scholarship examining the adoption of and application of water security in a wide array of journals and from a diverse set of authors across diverse geographic regions and scales around the world Huai and Chai, 2016).…”

“…The Data Cube technology could overcome current limitations and offers reliable avenues to test hypothesis about the dynamics of socialecological systems and water security by offering to combine spatial and time data with no major technical requirements for users. We pose water security as an illustration of this analytical and methodological perspective because it is conducive to analyze human and nature interdependencies (Dadson et al, 2017;Gerlak and Mukhtarov, 2015) to highlight the spatial and time dimensions of SES. Indeed, water availability changes over space, time, and quality in consequence of human and natural trends.…”

Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

“…The key to sustainable development is achieving a balance between the exploitation of natural resources for socio-economic development, and conserving ecosystem services that are critical to humans' wellbeing and livelihoods [1]. The policy objective of water security is symptomatic of this challenge [2][3][4].…”

“…It requires no major technical skills from users or researchers and offers reliable avenues to test hypothesis about the dynamics of social-ecological systems and water security by offering to combine spatial and time data with no major technical requirements for users. We pose water security as an illustration of this analytical and methodological perspective because it is conducive to analyzing human and nature interdependencies [3,4], thereby highlighting the spatial and time dimensions of SES. Indeed, water availability changes over space, time, and quality in consequence of human and natural trends [5,[15][16][17][18].…”