Scholars assert that traditional approaches to urban water management need reforming.
These debates have identified the need to move toward systems and complexity thinking …

Highlights•The transformative potential of resilience should be strengthened.•It is crucial to
prioritize the processes of building resilience, not only the outcomes.•We suggest reframing …

Water-related issues disproportionately affect Indigenous communities in Canada. Despite
millions in investment, Western-trained scientists, engineers, and other researchers as well …

Resilience is a multidimensional concept that is increasingly used to understand
environmental change in hydrological systems. Yet, the current discussion about water …

Policy actors address complex environmental problems by engaging in multiple and often
interdependent policy issues. Policy issue interdependencies imply that efforts by actors to …

The management of water quality is an important part of natural resource governance.
Assurance of water quality therefore requires formulation of the regulatory framework and …

Contemporary water-governance approaches lack an understanding of the differences
revealed when land and water governance interact. Conflicts arise because the spatial …

Research on water resource conflicts needs to be better aligned with practitioner
approaches to water resources development, chiefly integrated water resources …

This Special Issue aims to reflect on knowledge co-production and transdisciplinarity,
exploring the mutual interaction between water governance and water research. We do so …

Droughts affect semiarid regions worldwide, threatening economic activities and lives of
people living in these places. In Brazil, 11% of the population inhabits the semiarid, and …