Systems-thinking innovations for water security


Alamanos A. Xenarios S. Assubayeva A. Landis C.F.M. Dellis K. Koundouri P.
2024Frontiers Media SA

Frontiers in Water
2024#6

The concept of water security has progressed from a narrow emphasis on water supply infrastructure, primarily viewed through an engineering lens, to a comprehensive perspective encompassing technological, economic, environmental, and governance dimensions. The evolution of the water security concept, as evidenced in the relevant literature briefly reviewed in this paper, signifies a significant shift. This shift is toward a more comprehensive consideration of diverse values, stakeholders, and viewpoints by representing in an equitable manner as possible human-centric and ecosystem-based priorities. It also underscores the pressing need for transdisciplinary and more integrated approaches, as the challenges in representing the water security notion more effectively continue to mount. In response to these pressing challenges, the Global Climate Hub (GCH) initiative, operating under the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, employs interdisciplinary approaches comprising optimal dynamic combinations of technologies, economic analysis, and policies to devise national and regional water security strategies through inclusion approaches with relevant actors and stakeholders. Copyright

environmental economics , Global Climate Hub , human security , integrated modeling , systems innovation approach , valuation

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Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany
CSIRO Environment, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Centre for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Athena Research Center, Athens, Greece
School of Economics and ReSEES Research Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Denmark Technical University (DTU), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Independent Researcher
CSIRO Environment
Graduate School of Public Policy
Centre for International Development and Environmental Research
Athena Research Center
School of Economics and ReSEES Research Laboratory
Department of Technology

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