Towards hydrocitizenship. Connecting communities with and through responses to interdependent, multiple water issues

我们的目标是调查和发展我们所称的水族公民身份：-水族公民身份在当地出现的程度，以及如何通过与社区团体进行以艺术和人文为中心的跨学科研究(Ahir)来加强它。水公民身份意味着在个人(公民)和社区两级都意识到水是一种重要的社会和环境资源，并对水负有责任。成为“水利人”意味着认识到现代社会水问题的复杂性和相互关联性；认识到我们对水资源的不同需求所产生的选择和冲突；以及气候变化对未来水的适应能力带来了更多的挑战。我们寻求超越水的单一问题焦点(例如洪水、干旱、供水安全、废物处理安全、与水相关的生物多样性、水作为便利设施和文化资产)，转向更全面的方法，将这些问题视为相互依存的问题，并在以多种方式(上游、下游、跨越农村和城市分水岭、跨越地方甚至国家立法边界)连接社区的集水区和工程系统中运作。在解决这些水社区问题的同时，我们将提出一系列问题，如什么是(当地)社区(基于网络/地点)；它们是如何在“内部”形成/实施的；它们如何与周围的其他社区联系起来；以及如果通过思考基于环境(水)的资源，社区不可避免地共享(有时会发生冲突)，我们可以通过相互关联的方式为社区和环境复原力做出贡献。具体目的是确定和研究当地社区(和其他机构)如何重新评估它们与水资产和问题的关系，帮助加强(或建立)地方社区与当地水资产和问题的联系，以整体、联合的方式考虑水，而不是以一系列单一的问题(如洪水、供应安全、污染)来考虑水，将水作为重新思考当地社区如何形成和实践的一种手段考虑如何思考各种水网和问题，将不同的社区联系起来；例如，在上游和下游，相互冲突的水课程的使用通过同时应对社区/社会挑战和环境挑战实现双赢协同效应将上述放在以水为重点的国家和地方政策倡议中思考和分享以艺术为基础的跨学科参与性研究如何能够对关键的社会环境挑战产生重大影响英格兰和威尔士的四个研究领域将开展一系列活动。由来自9所大学的15名研究人员组成的整体学术团队将与选定的艺术从业者和社区团体合作，开展一系列参与性研究项目元素，其中包括表演、电影、历史叙事。活动的具体形式和方向将是与艺术顾问和社区合作伙伴共同筹备工作的结果。与这些因素相联系的跨学科学术研究不仅将带来相关社会科学学科的途径和方法，而且还将使研究与一系列学科和政策领域相关。

We aim to investigate and develop what we are calling hydrocitizenship:- the extent to which hydrocitizenship is emerging in local areas and how it can be enhanced by arts and humanities centred interdisciplinary research (AHIR) conducted with community groups. Hydrocitizenship implies an awareness of, and responsibility for, water as a vital social and environmental resource at both the individual (citizen) and community level. Being a 'hydrocitizen' means recognizing the complex and interconnected nature of water issues in modern society; that choices and conflicts arise from the differing demands we put on water resources; and that climate change presents added sets of challenges to future water resilience. We seek to move beyond single issue foci of water (e.g. flooding, drought, water supply security, waste disposal security, water related biodiversity, water as amenity and cultural asset) to a more holistic approach which sees these issues as interdependent and operating in catchment and engineered systems which connect communities in numerous way (upstream, downstream, across the rural urban divide, across local and even national legislative boundaries). At the same time as addressing these water-community issues we will ask a series of questions about what (local) communities are (networks/place based); how they are formed/practiced 'internally'; how they are connected to other communities around them, and if, through thinking about environmental (water) based resources communities inevitably share (and are sometimes in conflict over), we can contribute to community and environmental resilience in interconnected ways. The detailed aims are toidentify and study how local communities (and other agencies) are re-assessing their relationships with water assets and issueshelp enhance (or establish) local community connections to local water assets and issuesconsider water in a holistic, joined up way, rather than in a series of single issues (such as flooding, supply security, pollution)use water as a means of rethinking how local communities are formed and practicedconsider how thinking about various water networks and issues, connect differing communities; for example up and down stream, conflicting uses of water courseseek win-win synergies through addressing community/social challenges and environmental challenges in tandem place the above in national and local water focused policy initiativesreflect upon and share how arts based interdisciplinary participatory research with communities can make a significant impact in key social-environmental challenges A matrix of activities will take place across four study areas in England and wales. The overall academic team of 15 researchers from 9 universities will work with selected arts practitioners and community groups to conduct a series of participatory research project elements which will include performance, film, historical narratives. The exact form and direction of the activities will be the outcome of the preparatory co-working conducted with arts consultant and community partners. The interdisciplinary academic research linked to these elements will not only bring approaches and methods from related social science disciplines but aloes allow the research to be relevant in a range of disciplines and policy arenas.