Journal
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
Volume 575, Issue -, Pages 269-272Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.05.049
Keywords
Extreme events; Resilience; Water management; Environmental policy; Politics
Funding
- Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellowship of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University
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Problems have a high rank in decision making when they are both urgent and important. Accordingly, water has not earned the attention it deserves in public policy agenda because under normal circumstances it is not viewed as an urgent matter in the eyes of the public and politicians. By creating a sense of urgency, extreme events such as droughts, floods, conflicts, and migrations can create opportunities for implementing some essential policy reforms that would be politically costly otherwise. So, despite their high short-term costs, extreme natural and societal events have the potential to increase the resilience of water systems in the long run. It is argued here that the societal and political sense of urgency about water must be promoted through public outreach and information dissemination. Otherwise, for useful reforms and long-term improvements, we will rely on costly and risky extreme events that sometimes have the potential to fully collapse the human-natural system-of-systems.
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