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1 Bracken, L. J.; Cockshut, L.; Taylor, J.; Cotterill, S. 2020. The role of innovation in advancing understanding of hydrological processes. Hydrological Processes, 34(23):4404-4416. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13890]
Sustainable Development Goals ; Hydrology ; Innovation ; Infrastructure ; Water resources ; Water security ; Rainwater ; Models ; Case studies / England / NE Water Hub Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050032)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hyp.13890
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050032.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050032.pdf
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Innovation and understanding hydrological processes are intimately linked. Existing research has demonstrated the role of technological, societal, and political drivers in shaping and delivering new understandings in hydrological processes. In this paper we pose three research questions to explore how innovation can further our understanding of hydrological processes, if working towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) provides a helpful focus, and whether specific mechanisms can be used to facilitate innovation and research into hydrological processes. First, we examine key aspects of innovation and explore innovation in the context of water security. We then present a series of innovation projects to determine their effectiveness in delivering innovation in managing hydrological processes, but also their contribution to scientific understanding. Our research suggests that product and process innovation were more closely related to increasing scientific understanding of hydrological processes than other forms of innovation. The NE Water Hub demonstrated that the design of the innovation ecosystem was crucial to its success and provides a model to integrate innovation and research more widely to further scientific understanding and deliver behaviour change to address the SDGs.
2 Rollason, E.; Sinha, P.; Bracken, L. J.. 2022. Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: a new conceptual model. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 46(3):371-397. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333211065004]
Water transfer ; River basins ; Integrated water resources management ; Energy ; Food security ; Nexus approaches ; Socioeconomic development ; Ecological factors ; Water scarcity ; Water stress ; Water supply ; Water availability ; Hydropower ; Environmental impact ; Policies ; Stakeholders ; Decision making ; Developing countries ; Developed countries ; Models
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051214)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03091333211065004
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051214.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051214.pdf
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Water scarcity is a global issue, affecting in excess of four billion people. Interbasin Water Transfer (IBWT) is an established method for increasing water supply by transferring excess water from one catchment to another, water-scarce catchment. The implementation of IBWT peaked in the 1980s and was accompanied by a robust academic debate of its impacts. A recent resurgence in the popularity of IBWT, and particularly the promotion of mega-scale schemes, warrants revisiting this technology. This paper provides an updated review, building on previously published work, but also incorporates learning from schemes developed since the 1980s. We examine the spatial and temporal distribution of schemes and their drivers, review the arguments for and against the implementation of IBWT schemes and examine conceptual models for assessing IBWT schemes. Our analysis suggests that IBWT is growing in popularity as a supply-side solution for water scarcity and is likely to represent a key tool for water managers into the future. However, we argue that IBWT cannot continue to be delivered through current approaches, which prioritise water-centric policies and practices at the expense of social and environmental concerns. We critically examine the Socio-Ecological Systems and Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus models as new conceptual models for conceptualising and assessing IBWT. We conclude that neither model offers a comprehensive solution. Instead, we propose an enhanced WEF model (eWEF) to facilitate a more holistic assessment of how these mega-scale engineering interventions are integrated into water management strategies. The proposed model will help water managers, decision-makers, IBWT funders and communities create more sustainable IBWT schemes.
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