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{"title":"Global nature conservation and the apparent ineffective adaptation to climate pressures","authors":"Titus W Hielkema, Cor A Schipper, Berry Gersonius","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects climate change effects based on several scenarios and highlights the potential regional changes of bioclimatic pressures up until 2100. Understanding the effects of climate change on the ecosystems is of utmost importance for nature conservation; biodiversity in riverine and coastal areas is threatened by temperature increase by weather-related events like floods and droughts. This study evaluates the impact of climate change on the performance of a given nature-based solution and nature conservation management plan's success (or failure) to account for climate change. For the purpose of the evaluation, management plans are analysed against the UN Sustainable Development Goals targets. The case studies analysed include twelve nature-based solution sites in riverine and coastal areas, distributed across Europe, Oceania and North America. Their sustainable development goals performance is analysed quantitatively for the Sustainable Development Goals-Sustainable Index Score, open-source indicator data and qualitatively for the nature conservation management plans. Sustainable development goals considered include the following: clean water and sanitation (6); industry, innovation & infrastructure (9); sustainable cities and communities (11); responsible consumption and production (12); climate action (13); life below water (14); life on land (15). The International Panel on Climate Change projections under the Shared Socio-economic Pathways1-2.6 and Shared Socio-economic Pathways5-8.5 scenarios are used to gain evidence of the role nature-based solutions and nature conservation management plans can play in adaptation trajectories for climate change and biodiversity conservation. The results highlight that most nature conservation management plans and the nature-based solution they typically rely upon, do not pay sufficient attention to climate change. The evidence suggests that the studied nature-based solution sites are not on track to achieve selected sustainable development goals when climate change impacts under the Shared Socio-economic Pathways1-2.6 and Shared Socio-economic Pathways5-8.5 scenarios are factored in. Through this evaluation, riverine conservation areas are identified as requiring more rigorous climate adaptation strategies and nature conservation planning to enhance resilience and to have the potential of fulfilling the addressed SDGs.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"479 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenges for upscaling hydrological effectiveness of nature-based solution for adaptation to climate change in watersheds","authors":"Ad Jeuken, Patrick Ray, Ellis Penning, Laurene Bouaziz, Jacob Tracy, Sunwook Wi, Sadie McEvoy, Ümit Taner, Mark Hegnauer","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents an analysis of future research and development needs to assess the effectiveness of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation in watersheds at scale using hydrological models. Two main questions are addressed: to what extent are hydrological model approaches able to support decision making on nature-based solutions and adaptation, and how well is this hydrological analysis embedded in the broader planning process? To support the research, case studies in Bhutan, Zimbabwe and the Netherlands are presented. The Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis approach is used to structure the planning process. All three case studies demonstrate how the hydrological system and full landscape of land and water use in watersheds can be simulated to better understand hydrometeorological hazards under current and future climate. Also, simulations of nature-based solutions are demonstrated, which need creativity and profound expert knowledge. In contrast to the assessment of grey infrastructure, no rules or guidance exists for the hydrological assessment of nature-based solutions. Physically-based models are better able to support the understanding of the functioning of the ecohydrological system and, therefore, the effectiveness of adaptation using nature-based solutions. There are however trade-offs between the computational complexity, the computation time and the multiple scenarios and sensitivity analyses of adaptation options needed for climate stress testing. Often there is a lack of monitoring data for verification of model outcomes. Several recommendations on how to improve modelling in an adaptation process are given. In addition, it is recommended to develop and rectify a set of nature-based solutions performance indicators, rules and algorithms to be adopted in models in order to quantify the effectiveness of these solutions.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Footprints and legacy of Cees van de Guchte: AEHMS’ encounters with a super mind","authors":"M. Munawar","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.03","url":null,"abstract":"My first acquaintance with Cees began at the Symposium on Sediment quality assessment: Rationale, challenges and strategies held in Gothenburg, Sweden during August 1994 and organized by Dr. Goran Dave, under the banner of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society (AEHMS). This meeting provided the seeds for the formation of a working group called Sediment Quality Assessment (SQA). The SQA working group then developed into a regular group, meeting in Europe and the United States and focusing on various topics and issues of current interest. Cees van de Guchte became an active member of the SQA–AEHMS right from the first meeting in Sweden. He remained a contributing participant of the group for almost a decade, from 1994 to 2004, attending and organizing various SQA events (see Table 1). He also served on the organizing committees of most of the SQA symposia. In addition, he served on the Editorial Advisory Board of AEHMS’ journal and was a member of the AEHMS Executive Committee for a long time.Cees was especially active as an organizer of the 1998 SQA 3: Ecotoxicological Hazard and Risk Assessment in Aquatic Environments at RIZA in collaboration with Pieter den Besten in Amsterdam. He continued to be an organizing committee member for later meetings (Table 1), but again played a key role, serving as the Chair of the 6th AEHMS conference entitled Ecotechnology and Environmental Management for the 21st Century: Barometers of Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Integrity (Fig. 1).Cees was an international promoter of science and technology. He actively participated in an AEHMS conference held in Nainital, India during 1999. He played a personal role in interacting with younger Indian scientists, generating interest in ecosystem-based science and conservation. His next active international involvement was attending The Great Himalayas: Climate, Health, Ecology, Management and Conservation in Kathmundu in 2004. His last active role as an organizer was convening the SQA6 conference in Antwerp, Belgium during the summer of 2004. This marks a decade of enthusiastic and energetic participation in the SQA–AEHMS fora. His participation dwindled when the SQA series of symposia was discontinued due to other emerging organizations and activities engaged in by the AEHMS.However, Cees continued to show interest in the promotion of AEHMS globally by recommending that AEHMS organize a special issue for the Second International Conference on Environmental Concerns (ICEC, 2004): Innovative Technologies and Management Options in Xiamen, China. Sadly, his last involvement with the Society was at the 8th AEHMS conference on Ecosystem Health, Restoration and Remediation of Aquatic Ecosystems: Tools, Techniques and Mechanisms, held in Nanjing, China, in 2005 (Table 1). In later years he became busy with other international activities and hence was not as available for AEHMS activities, but was always eager to help as a consultant when contacted.Cees’ pleasant, friendly","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"331 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roots, career and social life of Cees van de Guchte","authors":"Jolande de Jonge","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.07","url":null,"abstract":"Cees grew up in a small town in the southwest of the Netherlands. This part of the country is characterised by estuaries, as well as the dominant presence of dikes. They are the silent witnesses of centuries of securing land from floods and represent a culture of fearing, conquering, and embracing the sea. ‘Sealand’ is a world-famous delta region where rivers and sea meet in an eternal alternation of tides, leaving traces in the landscape. This environment, ‘Zeeland’ in Dutch, may well have predestined Cees for his professional career in water management, as well as in the symbiosis between people and wetlands.The great flood of 1953 in Zeeland happened a few years before Cees was born. Dikes broke and much of the land was inundated, resulting in many casualties. Cees’ parents told him how people, including family, had to climb into boats from the upper floors of their homes to save their lives and how his grandfather's cows were brought to safety on the nearby dike. Such stories made a big impression on him. During his youth, the so-called Delta Works were planned and executed, an ambitious national program to prevent such a flood from happening again. In the planning phase, there was a lively nationwide discussion on how to protect the land against the sea on one hand, while preserving the rich ecosystem above and below the waterline on the other. The result was the Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier that can be closed when needed. Today, the Delta Works annually attract thousands of tourists and professionals, and Dutch experts are called upon worldwide to assist in innovative flood protection.Against this background, Cees began his university study in biology in 1974. He started in ecology, went on with a specialisation in water quality, and then gradually progressed into water management, climate adaptation and risk management. In doing so, his focus gradually shifted from protection against water to improving water quality, then to the necessity of access to clean water for all, and finally to sustainable development of delta areas around the globe.In short, Cees’ focus was always on water. He was a true workaholic who carried out his work with relentless curiosity, enthusiasm and commitment.Cees started in 1986 at RIZA, the freshwater-related research institute of the executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat). First as ‘project leader of water quality’, and later as ‘team leader of ecotoxicology’, with a focus on assessment methods for water and sediment quality using water fleas and mosquito larvae. He also concentrated on the development of environmental quality objectives and risk and environmental impact assessments. Cees wanted to write a thesis based on his research data and publications. However, at that time he also became internationally active in river committees (Rhine and Meuse) and the UN-ECE, so this plan was never realized. Instead, this period of his career marked the beginni","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge exchange and capacity building in deltas: experiences of the Delta Alliance","authors":"Kim van Nieuwaal, Victor Langenberg, Peter Odhengo","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Deltas are areas where pressures (e.g. climate change, rapid urbanization, water related shocks and stressors) as well as opportunities (e.g. economic growth, delta-city metabolism, sustainable development) collide to an unprecedented extent. The deltas are considered to become the most vital and critical hotspots in the world for sustainable development. Consequently, immediate acceleration in hands-on knowledge partnerships is required for sustainable low-carbon emission and resilient investments in delta areas. The mission of the Delta Alliance is to improve the resilience of the deltas in the world through knowledge sharing and capacity building. In this paper we elaborate on the various roles that the Delta Alliance has played and how this has been of significance for other developing delta regions in the world. Some of the successes and lessons learned are highlighted, with a particular focus on the African deltas. We argue that increasing investments in knowledge sharing and capacity building among - and with - those working in the deltas for creating equitable and trusted partnerships are a necessary condition for an integrated approach to the challenges in the deltas.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human health impacts of dams and reservoirs: neglected issues in a One Health perspective","authors":"Racchana Ramamurthy, Julia Bleser, Flemming Konradsen, Solomon Kibret, Jeff Opperman, Liangzhi You, Kees Sloff, Matthew McCartney, Eric M. Fèvre, Eline Boelee","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dams have often been constructed for hydropower, water storage and to support socio-economic development, particularly in areas of water stress. In many places, the water stored in human-made reservoirs is essential to meet the development objectives of water supply, agriculture, industry, energy generation and other sectors. However, in the absence of adequate foresight and planning, many past dams have had considerable negative impacts on ecosystems and the livelihoods of affected communities, resulting in conflicts and health hazards. While enhanced human health and well-being could be considered as the ultimate outcome of development programs, the public health impact of dams remains an issue that is often neglected by policy makers and investors. National policies and international guidelines, such as those of the World Commission on Dams (WCD), have been used to improve planning and impact assessment of dams. Here, we provide an analysis of four large dams, across three continents, and show that they had limited consistency with WCD principles and guidelines. Moreover, health aspects were largely neglected during planning, construction and operation of these dams, but seriously undermine their intended benefits. This perspective paper discusses impacts of dams on energy and food, ecosystem health, inclusion, and ultimately human health and wellbeing. We argue that a One Health perspective, based on these four categories, can support the systematic consideration of environmental, animal, and human health determinants. A dedicated One Health approach to dams and reservoirs remains to be developed but could potentially improve how dams, both existing and future, support more inclusive development.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Water Convention, a multilateral environmental agreement as community of practice","authors":"J.G. Timmerman, F. Bernardini, L. Kauppi, S. Koeppel, J. Matthews","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.087","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Multilateral Environmental Agreements are important international instruments for achieving sustainable development. Nevertheless, their implementation is often not easy and integration with scientific knowledge during implementation can be troublesome. The 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) has developed a way of implementing its’ program of work that can best be described as a Community of Practice that combines scientific developments with practical implications. This approach has attracted much attention from practitioners in the field of water management and has been highly successful in many practical applications of its principles. This paper will describe how the Water Convention operates and will argue why this can be termed a Community of Practice. Different examples will be presented to underscore how the Water Convention through this approach has been able to attain progress towards its goals.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A conceptual model for enabling sustainable management of soil-sediment-water ecosystems in support of European policy","authors":"Jos Brils, Linda Maring","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.063","url":null,"abstract":"The health of soil-sediment-water ecosystems is under pressure from economic activities and a changing climate. This decreases health and hampers the service provision capacity of these ecosystems and thus impacts human well-being. Protecting and where feasible restoring of ecosystem health has currently become the key European environmental policy objective and for this it is needed to take an entire system approach and engage stakeholders. ‘Entire’ means that soil, sediment and water are regarded as closely interlinked environmental matrices that need to be managed by taking a ‘river (or mountain) to sea’ perspective, crossing spatial, discipline, political and cultural boundaries. This paper presents a conceptual model to support that purpose. Essentially, the conceptual model presents an approach for ecosystem-based management aimed to achieve healthy ecosystems, i.e. soil-sediment-water ecosystems that have the continued capacity to support ecosystem services to the benefit of their users. The model proposes a cyclic (iterative, learning-by-doing) approach and integrates soil-sediment-water, ecosystems, ecosystem services, users (stakeholders), pressures, information, management strategy and program of measures as building blocks. To successfully apply the model, it is above all needed to take an entrepreneurial approach, i.e. leave comfort zones, take an adventurous road, learn together to manage together, be adaptive and consider other than only command-and-control solutions. Furthermore, authorities should become facilitative leaders to engage users in co-creation of an ecosystem-based management strategy. Real live and place-based experimenting with multiple stakeholders, such as in the Living Labs and Lighthouses that are proposed in the EU soil mission, may provide an ideal instrument for such application, i.e. where the conceptual model can be used and support the achievement of European environmental policy objectives.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"42 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contaminant curiosity and pollutant puzzles: Conceptual insights in ecotoxicity and practical implementation of higher-tiered risk assessment.","authors":"Jos P.M. Vink, Martina G. Vijver, A. Jan Hendriks","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the soil quality Tool for Risk Identification, Assessment and Display approach introduced the “three lines of evidence” accounting for chemical, toxicological and ecological stressors to explain adverse effects in biota, the assessment of contaminant risks in the environment has significantly evolved. The concept of chemical speciation, related to water characteristics, boosted the understanding of the role of free-ion activities in the overall accumulation of pollutants in biota. New modeling concepts (e.g. biotic ligand models) and measuring techniques were developed. This in turn triggered widespread research addressing the quantitative role of sediment in the overall water quality, focusing on redox interfaces. For contaminant mixtures in river catchments, complex relations between (bio)availability of compounds, including nutrients, help to explain aquatic toxicity. Variation in ecological patterns and processes across environmental or spatiotemporal gradients occur, which may identify ecological factors that influence contaminant fate and effects. Empirical evidence by meta-analysis and theoretical underpinning by modelling showed relationships between population growth rates and carrying capacities, across chemicals and across species. The potentially affected fraction (PAF) of species may be related to the mean species abundance, an often-used indicator in global change studies. Knowledge gaps remain on how pollutants travel through ecological communities and which species and species-relationships are affected. Outdoor experimental systems that examine the natural environment under controlled conditions may be useful at the higher biological level to investigate the impact of stressors on a variety of species, including mutual interactions.","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cees’ vision for the future beyond 2023: A safe and secure water world for all","authors":"Henk Ovink","doi":"10.14321/aehm.026.02.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.02.011","url":null,"abstract":"Cees was best described as an activist scientist, a connector bridging the divides in society and building bridges between people and planet. Working with youth, empowering the old, informing the policymakers, encouraging the politicians and inspiring his colleagues and friends. Cees’ collaborative capacity made the world a better place. And, he made us all feel connected and empowered to act. His legacy is now our responsibility.Water and climate change are directly linked. We know this both intuitively and from natural disasters. The climate crisis is a water crisis. Nine out of 10 natural disasters are water related. Between 2001 and 2018, droughts, floods, landslides and storms caused over $1.700 billion US in damage worldwide according to the UN (2020), impacting over 3.4 billion people, the majority in Asia. Without water, there is no energy and no food. But too much water and ever-increasing ‘extremes’ also go hand in hand with far too little water—periods of drought align with the flow of refugees and increased conflicts. We are depleting our natural water supplies at a ruinous rate, and sea level rise is jeopardizing our cities and deltas.Cees was a true professional in the field of water— that complex mix of climate, sustainability, ecology, disasters, risk reduction, adaptation, environment, planning, cities, coasts, rivers, oceans, source to sea and more. He deeply understood the depths of that complexity. He knew how important it was not to avoid it, but to embrace and unravel it, and to use all those connections to work toward solutions. Water was his way.‘The Geography of Future Water Challenges’—developed together with the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency and spearheaded by Willem Ligtvoet with a consortium of global scientist including Cees—states that: “Water security is related to three water-related challenges: water scarcity (too little water), water pollution (dirty water) and flood risk (too much water). In the coming decades, these challenges and their impact on people's daily lives are expected to increase due to population growth, economic development, increased agricultural production and climate change, in turn affecting water availability, sea level rise and weather patterns. In order to secure water resources, now and in the future, an understanding of the complexity of water-related challenges and the existence of possible gaps is essential as a basis for the development of sustainable strategies that can adequately reduce risks for the population, economic development, ecosystems, and water associated migration and conflicts.” (Ligtvoet, 2018).The 2020 Global Risks Report (World Economic Forum, 2020) agrees, as it lists water crises—time and again—as one of the top global risks. Water is linked to the economy, geopolitics, the environment, climate change and more. The report reiterates a painful song, played over and over again: water scarcity, which already affects a quarter of the world's population, will on","PeriodicalId":8125,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management","volume":"7 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}