Integrating resilience and socioeconomic demands through adaptive governance: Dilemmas in the Brazilian water sector

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104048

Telma C.S. Teixeira , Marcia M.R. Ribeiro

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Abstract

Managing environmental resources is a complex task that requires identifying and reconciling socioeconomic goals with ecosystem resilience limits. In the water sector, this complexity is further exacerbated by the crucial nature of the resource and its multifunctional roles. We introduce a Panarchy Tree as an analytical and conceptual model that reveals the multiple interconnected factors influencing water governance decisions. This model is underpinned by a comprehensive literature review on adaptive cycles, ecosystem resilience, and bioeconomic limits and has the potential to enhance the efficiency of the water governance system. We evaluated the model by analyzing water charging impacts and connections in a semiarid river basin, revealing the dissociation between public policy, stakeholders’ plans, and environmental unpredictability that impacts the resilience of ecosystems, thereby affecting the governance process. Vertical impacts arise at different decision-making levels without hierarchical constraints, while horizontal impacts go through up-level nodes, affecting several branches. The model aids in enhancing water management instruments by offering suggestions about reducing disconnections that affect water governance efficiency and offering a sustainable outlook for the future of water resource management.

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通过适应性治理整合复原力和社会经济需求：巴西水务部门的困境

管理环境资源是一项复杂的任务，需要确定和协调社会经济目标与生态系统恢复能力的限制。在水部门，水资源的关键性质及其多功能作用进一步加剧了这种复杂性。我们引入了Panarchy Tree作为分析和概念模型，揭示了影响水治理决策的多个相互关联的因素。该模型基于对适应性循环、生态系统恢复力和生物经济限制的综合文献综述，具有提高水治理系统效率的潜力。我们通过分析半干旱河流流域的水收费影响和联系来评估该模型，揭示了公共政策、利益相关者的计划和影响生态系统恢复力的环境不可预测性之间的分离，从而影响治理过程。纵向影响产生于不同的决策层面，没有层级约束；横向影响经过上层节点，影响多个分支。该模式提供了关于减少影响水治理效率的断水现象的建议，并为水资源管理的未来提供了可持续的前景，从而有助于加强水管理手段。

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Environmental Science & Policy 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

10.90

自引率

8.30%

发文量

332

审稿时长

68 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Science & Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, and the interactions among these issues. The journal emphasises the linkages between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health. However, the subject coverage will not be restricted to these issues and the introduction of new dimensions will be encouraged.