Emerging themes and future directions in watershed resilience research

Emerging themes and future directions in watershed resilience research

Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando (The Nature Conservancy; George Mason University; Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis)
Matthews, John H. (Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis)
Karres, Nathan (The Nature Conservancy)
Abell, Robin (The Nature Conservancy; Conservation International, Arlington)
Dalton, James (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
Kang, Shi Teng (The Nature Conservancy)
Liu, Junguo (Southern University of Science and Technology; University of Water Resources and Electrical Power, Chengzhou)
Maendly, Romain (California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento)
van Wesenbeeck, B (TU Delft Coastal Engineering)

2023

A review of ecological, social, engineering, and integrative approaches to define and apply resilience thinking is presented and comparatively discussed in the context of watershed management. Knowledge gaps are identified through an assessment of this literature and compilation of a set of research questions through stakeholder engagement activities. We derive a proposed research agenda describing key areas of inquiry such as watershed resilience variables and their interactions; leveraging watershed natural properties, processes, and dynamics to facilitate and enable resilience; analytical methods and tools including monitoring, modeling, metrics, and scenario planning, and their applications to watersheds at different spatial and temporal scales, and infusing resilience concepts as core values in watershed adaptive management.

Adaptation
Persistence
Transformation
Watershed management

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100132

Water Security, 18

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© 2023 Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, John H. Matthews, Nathan Karres, Robin Abell, James Dalton, Shi Teng Kang, Junguo Liu, Romain Maendly, B van Wesenbeeck, More Authors