(De)centralized Water Futures: Key Dimensions of Infrastructure, Governance, and Operations.

IF 5.8 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI:10.1002/wat2.70035
Alicia Dailey Cooperman, Jenny Linder Rempel, Ellis Adjei Adams, Alida Cantor, Manuela Muñoz Fuerte, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey, Nicole J Wilson, Cassandra L Workman, Melissa Beresford, Leila M Harris, Linda E Méndez-Barrientos, Sameer H Shah, Amber Wutich, Justin Stoler
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Water system centralization and decentralization have variously been promoted as key to achieving household water security and Sustainable Development Goal 6.1. We argue that the lack of specificity with which scholars and practitioners use the terms centralization and decentralization limits our understanding of different water system configurations and their impacts. In this Primer, we provide a framework for thinking about levels of (de)centralization across three linked system dimensions: infrastructure, governance, and operations and maintenance. We encourage those analyzing water systems to characterize (de)centralization with respect to these multiple dimensions, as well as the system's broader political-economic and hydro-climatic contexts. Emphasizing the importance of delineating the scale of analysis, we highlight distinct system configurations and the prevalence of hybridity. Increased specificity about dimensions and scale can clarify how the character of, or changes to, a given system impact users, which is critical to assessing their implications for water security, sustainability, and equity. We conclude with recommendations for future research to analyze the opportunities and challenges associated with different water system configurations. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance.

(去)中心化的水资源期货:基础设施、治理和运营的关键维度。
水系统的集中化和分散化作为实现家庭用水安全和可持续发展目标6.1的关键得到了不同程度的推广。我们认为,学者和实践者使用术语集中化和分散化缺乏特异性,限制了我们对不同水系统配置及其影响的理解。在本入门中,我们提供了一个框架,用于思考跨三个相连的系统维度(基础设施、治理、操作和维护)的(去)集中化级别。我们鼓励那些分析水系统的人从这些多维度以及该系统更广泛的政治经济和水文气候背景来描述(去)集中化。为了强调描述分析尺度的重要性,我们强调了不同的系统配置和混杂的普遍性。增加对尺度和规模的特异性可以阐明给定系统的特征或变化如何影响用户,这对于评估其对水安全、可持续性和公平性的影响至关重要。最后,我们提出了未来研究的建议,以分析与不同水系统配置相关的机遇和挑战。本文分类如下:人类用水、水治理。
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water Environmental Science-Ecology
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