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Collection: REACH Water Security
Engaging with the politics of climate resilience towards clean water and sanitation for all
- Abstract:
- Climate resilient development has become the new paradigm for sustainable development influencing theory and practice across all sectors globally—gaining particular momentum in the water sector, since water security is intimately connected to climate change. Climate resilience is increasingly recognised as being inherently political, yet efforts often do not sufficiently engage with context-specific socio-ecological, cultural and political processes, including structural inequalities underlying historically produced vulnerabilities. Depoliticised approaches have been shown to pose barriers to concerted and meaningful change. In this article, world-leading water specialists from academic and practitioner communities reflect on, and share examples of, the importance of keeping people and politics at the centre of work on climate resilient water security. We propose a roadmap to meaningfully engage with the complex politics of climate resilient water security. It is critical to re-politicise climate resilience to enable efforts towards sustainable development goal 6—clean water and sanitation for all.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1038/s41545-021-00133-2
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+ UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/037wke960
- Grant:
- 201880
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- npj Clean Water More from this journal
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 42
- Publication date:
- 2021-08-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-07-13
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2059-7037
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English
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Comment
- Pubs id:
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1189707
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pubs:1189707
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2021-08-05
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- Grasham et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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