Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
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应对复杂水安全政策挑战的还原论和综合研究方法

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10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.010
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2016
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Global Environmental Change
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Zeitoun M
Zeitoun M
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本文回顾和对比了水安全研究人员用来促进对水社会政策挑战复杂性的理解的两种方法。一种流行的还原主义方法试图通过可计算的风险来表示不确定性,将国家GDP与水文气候原因紧密联系起来,并低估了社会的多样性和政治。如果不加批判地采用这种方法,政策制定者就会受到限制,只能采取可能再现不平等的干预措施,而且这种干预措施过于僵化,无法应对未来的社会和气候变化。第二种更综合的方法被发现可以解决一系列不确定性,明确承认社会和环境的多样性,纳入不太容易控制的水资源,并考虑适应性方法以超越传统的供应方处方。由此产生的政策建议是多样化的、包容性的,更有可能惠及社会边缘群体,尽管它们经常遇到政策采纳方面的障碍。这篇文章最后定义了一条通往更有效的水安全研究和政策的路线,它强调与所拥有的知识状态相匹配的分析、扩大的研究议程,并明确解决不平等问题。
This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing reductionist approach seeks to represent uncertainty through calculable risk, links national GDP tightly to hydro-climatological causes, and underplays diversity and politics in society. When adopted uncritically, this approach limits policy-makers to interventions that may reproduce inequalities, and that are too rigid to deal with future changes in society and climate. A second, more integrative, approach is found to address a range of uncertainties, explicitly recognise diversity in society and the environment, incorporate water resources that are less-easily controlled, and consider adaptive approaches to move beyond conventional supply-side prescriptions. The resultant policy recommendations are diverse, inclusive, and more likely to reach the marginalised in society, though they often encounter policy-uptake obstacles. The article concludes by defining a route towards more effective water security research and policy, which stresses analysis that matches the state of knowledge possessed, an expanded research agenda, and explicitly addresses inequities.
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