Water resources

Integrating water supply constraints into irrigated agricultural simulations of California

Journal article / This paper evaluates a coupled water planning and crop model for irrigated agriculture that researchers deployed in Yolo County, California.

Understanding sustained use of ecological sanitation in rural Burkina Faso

Journal article

How business counts: Aligning water sustainability metrics for the Sustainable Development Goals

Perspective / Water is getting attention in the context of green economic development. How can we make water sustainability measures more relevant and consistent?

Whose hydropower? From conflictual management into an era of reconciling environmental concerns

Journal article / A discussion of reshaping hydropower governance towards win-win solutions.

A sustainable Europe through business unusual

Perspective / We need business unusual and Estonia’s successful track record in the last 25 years gives us hope that it will be able to make its mark, writes Lauri Tammiste.

Assessing the adaptive capacity of multi-level water governance: ecosystem services under climate change in Mälardalen region, Sweden

Journal article / This article argues that lasting adaptive capacity is unlikely to result from crisis management; it requires political action and coordination.

Q&A: Sulev Nõmmann on Source-to-Sea, a “new paradigm” for water system management

Feature / The Source-to-Sea project was developed for the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It aims to find new ways to govern and manage resource flows.

A conceptual framework for governing and managing key flows in a source-to-sea continuum

Journal article / This open access paper presents a conceptual framework to guide the design of future initiatives aimed at supporting green and blue growth

Bringing EU policy into line with the planetary boundaries

SEI brief / This brief discusses how the planetary boundaries framework can be used to inform EU policy-making