Workshop Proposal: Multi-Scalar and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches towards Equitable Water Governance- University of California, Santa Cruz, February 2013

该奖项支持将在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校举行的关于公平水治理的多尺度和跨学科方法的研讨会。人类消费、能源、服务和工业用水的需求正在迅速增加，水资源短缺正在成为全球性的危机。此外，水资源的获取和分配仍然不公平，这一问题由于气候变化的影响而变得更加突出。目前的理论和分析模型不能充分解释水不平等现象。部分问题在于，大多数水资源学术研究侧重于单一层面的分析，主要是地方层面的分析，而忽视了行为者和机构在多个层面上的动态，这些动态可能会相互作用，产生水资源获取模式和结果。本次研讨会旨在为公平的水资源治理制定一个新的多标量和跨学科的分析框架。它将汇集一个多元化和跨学科的团队，他们在世界各地的关键案件中具有专业知识，包括南美洲和中美洲，非洲，南亚和东亚。讲习班的四个目标是：（1）确定与跨越地理边界的水公平有关的问题的共同模式和进程，同时认识到具体情况在形成社会生态动态方面的重要性;（2）探讨水获取模式的相关体制基础，以此了解水治理和社会组织;（3）为公平水治理和供水的多尺度研究制定一个跨学科框架，主要关注时间尺度和社会政治空间尺度;和4）生成分析和研究优先事项，促进水治理研究关键成果的可操作性方面的更大一致性和可比性问题.该研讨会支持高级和初级学者，包括研究生。

This award supports a workshop on Multi-Scalar and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches towards Equitable Water Governance to be held at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Water demand for human consumption, energy, services, and industrial uses is rapidly increasing and water scarcity is becoming a crisis worldwide. In addition, access and distribution of water resources continue to be inequitable, a problem that is becoming more pronounced through the effects of climate change. Current theoretical and analytical models do not adequately explain water inequities. Part of the problem is that most water scholarship focuses on single level analysis, mostly local, and neglects the dynamics among actors and institutions at multiple scales that may interact to produce water access patterns and outcomes. This workshop seeks to develop a new multi-scalar and cross-disciplinary analytical frameworks for equitable water governance. It will bring together a diverse and interdisciplinary team with expertise in key cases from around the world, including South and Central America, Africa, South and East Asia. The workshop's four objectives are: 1) to identify common patterns and processes in issues related to water equity that cut across geographical boundaries while recognizing the importance of specific contexts in shaping socio-ecological dynamics; 2) to explore the associated institutional underpinnings of water access patterns as a way to understand water governance and social organization; 3) to develop a cross-disciplinary framework for the multi-scalar study of equitable water governance and provision, with primary attention to temporal scale and socio-political-spatial scale; and 4) to generate analytics and research priorities that foster greater consistency and comparability in operationalizing key outcomes in research on water governance issues. The workshop supports both senior and junior scholars, including graduate students.