Grafton, Quentin R., Fanaian, Safa, Horne, James, Katic, Pamela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7594-1081, Nguyen, Nhat-Mai, Ringler, Claudia, Robin, Libby, Talbot-Jones, Julia, Wheeler, Sarah Ann, Wyrwoll, Paul Robert, Avarado, Fabiola, Biswas, Asit K., Borgomeo, Edoardo, Brouwer, Roy, Coombes, Peter, Costanza, Robert, Hope, Robert, Kompas, Tom, Kubiszewski, Ida, Manero, Ana, Martins, Rita, McDonnell, Rachael, Nikolakis, William, Rollason, Russell, Samnakay, Nadeem, Scanlon, Bridget R., Svensson, Jesper, Thiam, Djiby, Tortajada, Cecilia, Wang, Yahua and Williams, John (2024) Rethinking responses to the world's water crises. Nature Sustainability. ISSN 2398-9629 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01470-z)

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The nine co-lead authors are listed alphabetically after the first author. All other co-authors are listed 46 alphabetically after the co-lead authors.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	water; beyond growth
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
Last Modified:	10 Dec 2024 17:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48850

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