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Research story | 2024-09-02

The risk of global water shortages is greater than previously thought, new research shows

Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Centre research is now presenting an alternative method for quantifying global risk to water scarcity.

Research in short | 2024-08-21

Designing for collective action

Wicked problems are best solved when different worldviews, ways of knowing and value systems are included. But how to design processes that enable new forms of collaboration?

Research story | 2024-06-19

From “precipitation-sheds” to “participation-sheds”

Today, hydrological cycles are increasingly interconnected across larger spatial scales, sometimes even globally. This calls for rethinking how we study and govern water to enhance resilience and sustainability, argues a new study.

Research news | 2022-09-13

Mutual interests and benefits are no guarantee for increased collaboration

Awareness of interdependencies may not promote, but instead even inhibit, exchange and dialogue between different policy actors

Research news | 2022-08-04

Growing tree cover can boost or dwindle water availability

Tree restoration is a great way to mitigate climate change and store atmospheric carbon. But when trees are planted at a large scale, regional water availability can be seriously affected

Research news | 2022-07-01

Human actions drastically alter river flows

Diminishing water flows may jeopardize the lives of millions of people that depend on the rivers for food production, energy or sanitation

Research news | 2021-05-31

What it takes to address several challenges at the same time

Four insights into dealing with environmental policy issue interdependencies

Research news | 2019-12-18

Conflicts might be better than watered down collaborations

Why conflict is to be expected in the process of transitioning to good water governance, and why it is okay

Research news | 2019-11-12

Where the rivers run

Research on water governance suggests that increasing engagement from groups outside the confined borders of central governance means rethinking those borders in the first place

Research news | 2019-05-30

More not always the merrier

Efforts to involve more stakeholders when managing regional water basins has had limited success. Municipalities play a unique role in order to make progress

Research news | 2018-09-06

Rivers run from faraway

Water and land governance need to consider effects of distant land-use change, because local land-use decisions are not as local as we have always assumed