TY - JOUR
T1 - The re-adaptation challenge
T2 - limits and opportunities of existing infrastructure and institutions in adaptive water governance
AU - Scott, Christopher A.
AU - Shrestha, Padmendra P.
AU - Lutz-Ley, America N.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge support from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation; the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI, project CRN3056, which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Grant GEO-1128040); NSF Grant No. DEB-101049; Lloyd's Register Foundation (a charitable foundation helping to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research); and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development through the Himalayan University Consortium.
Funding Information:
We acknowledge support from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation ; the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI, project CRN3056, which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Grant GEO-1128040 ); NSF Grant No. DEB-101049 ; Lloyd’s Register Foundation (a charitable foundation helping to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research); and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development through the Himalayan University Consortium .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Water plays a central role in climate adaptation, economic development, poverty alleviation, food and energy security, and ecosystem processes. Addressing current and future global change, particularly for competing water-governance objectives, requires planning flexibility that may be constrained by physical water-resources infrastructure. This paper reviews infrastructure, the institutions for its management, and adaptive governance. We emphasize mechanisms that enhance adaptive capacity by accounting for: (1) uncertainties in supply, demand, and extreme conditions; (2) institutional inertia and means to overcome path dependence; and (3) flexibility in planning and operation of infrastructure. We define and discuss the ‘re-adaptation challenge,’ that is, accounting for infrastructure and institutions extant from past cycles of development while strengthening the capacity of planners, managers and other stakeholders to confront current complexities and future uncertainties. In so doing, we bring forward resilience as a water-governance goal, identifying infrastructure re-operations, other soft-path measures, and potentially, infrastructure removal as transformative adaptive pathways.
AB - Water plays a central role in climate adaptation, economic development, poverty alleviation, food and energy security, and ecosystem processes. Addressing current and future global change, particularly for competing water-governance objectives, requires planning flexibility that may be constrained by physical water-resources infrastructure. This paper reviews infrastructure, the institutions for its management, and adaptive governance. We emphasize mechanisms that enhance adaptive capacity by accounting for: (1) uncertainties in supply, demand, and extreme conditions; (2) institutional inertia and means to overcome path dependence; and (3) flexibility in planning and operation of infrastructure. We define and discuss the ‘re-adaptation challenge,’ that is, accounting for infrastructure and institutions extant from past cycles of development while strengthening the capacity of planners, managers and other stakeholders to confront current complexities and future uncertainties. In so doing, we bring forward resilience as a water-governance goal, identifying infrastructure re-operations, other soft-path measures, and potentially, infrastructure removal as transformative adaptive pathways.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.012
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.012
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85096446370
VL - 44
SP - 104
EP - 112
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -