TY - JOUR

T1 - Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity

T2 - Insights for Future Research

AU - Castro, Antonio J

AU - Quintas-Soriano, Cristina

AU - Brandt, Jodi

AU - Atkinson, Carla L

AU - Baxter, Colden V

AU - Burnham, Morey

AU - Egoh, Benis N

AU - Garcia-Llorente, Marina

AU - Julian, Jason P

AU - Martin-López, Berta

AU - Liao, Felix Haifeng

AU - Running, Katrina

AU - Vaughn, Caryn C.

AU - Norström, Albert V.

N1 - The research reported in this paper contributes to the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (www.pecs-science.org) and is funded by the NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program and by the National Science Foundation under award number IIA-1301792. MGL is funded by a postdoctoral grant from the Spanish National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA), co-funded by the Social European Fund.

PY - 2018/5/10

Y1 - 2018/5/10

N2 - Globally, environmental and social change in water-scarce regions challenge the sustainability of social-ecological systems. WaterSES, a sponsored working group within the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society, explores and compares the social-ecological dynamics related to water scarcity across placed-based international research sites with contrasting local and regional water needs and governance, including research sites in Spain and Sweden in Europe, South Africa, China, and Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas in the USA. This paper aims to provide a commentary on insights into conducting future solutions-oriented research on water scarcity based on the understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of water scarce regions.

AB - Globally, environmental and social change in water-scarce regions challenge the sustainability of social-ecological systems. WaterSES, a sponsored working group within the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society, explores and compares the social-ecological dynamics related to water scarcity across placed-based international research sites with contrasting local and regional water needs and governance, including research sites in Spain and Sweden in Europe, South Africa, China, and Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas in the USA. This paper aims to provide a commentary on insights into conducting future solutions-oriented research on water scarcity based on the understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of water scarce regions.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - PEC S

KW - water governance

KW - ecosystem service

KW - place-based research

KW - social-ecological system

KW - sustainability

KW - transdisciplinary science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047009360&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3390/su10051516

DO - 10.3390/su10051516

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 10

JO - Sustainability

JF - Sustainability

SN - 2071-1050

IS - 5

M1 - 1516

ER -