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Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter

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doi:10.1002/wat2.1734

Authors

Elizabeth Macpherson · Rosa Isabella Cuppari · Aurora K. Kagawa-Viviani · Holly Brause · William A. Brewer · William E. Grant · Nicole M. Herman‐Mercer · Ben Livneh · Kaustuv Raj Neupane · Tanya N. Petach · Chelsea N. Peters · Hsiao‐Hsuan Wang · Claudia Pahl‐Wostl · Howard Simon Wheater

Reported year

2024

Reported language

en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:09:16.800073+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:17:04.119273+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Aspen Global Change Institute · Baylor University · Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences · Imperial College London · New Mexico State University · Osnabrück University · Roanoke College · Texas A&M University · United States Geological Survey · University of Canterbury · University of Colorado Boulder · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Documentary abstract — original language

Abstract Global water systems are facing unprecedented pressures, including climate change‐driven drought and escalating flood risk, environmental contamination, and over allocation. Water management and governance typically lack integration across spatial scales, including relationships between surface and ground water systems. They also routinely ignore connectivity across temporal scales, including the need for intergenerational water planning. As a global and interdisciplinary group of scientists, we seek to highlight how power and scale dynamics influence and determine water outcomes. We argue that attending to complex water systems challenges requires understanding the function and influence of power at different temporal and spatial scales. Building this understanding is key to designing multi‐scalar, reflexive, and pluralistic policy solutions that avoid ineffective or unintended outcomes. We use a co‐learning process to reveal important lessons for the challenge of interdisciplinary research and set a pluralist agenda for understanding power and scale in future water governance. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Human Water > Methods

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DOI

10.1002/wat2.1734

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