The science policy interface is key to addressing current and future water resilience through translating scientific output into actionable evidence for decision making and policies. Interactions with policy makers are key to formulating academic research towards water resilience and addressing social challenges to support realistic and feasible local adaptation strategies. With the ever-increasing pressures on water availability (both in quantity and quality) and the profound social, economic, ecological, and political impacts, a deeper understanding is needed of the science-policy context of water security and resilience to hydrologic extremes. This can identify hydrological research priorities and improve knowledge transfer and translation to support adaptive local, national, and global policies that focus on water resilience in the face of climate extremes. The recently published European Water Resilience Strategy is a good example of one such initiative.
This session provides the opportunity to show how water research across the entire hydrologic cycle can inform dialogues for science-informed policies on the regional, national, and international level, with a particular focus on shared waters. Our session promotes dialogues focused on understanding the complex interplay between academic water research and policies through stakeholder dialogues and policy labs to promote sustainability. Additionally, we want to address the impact of adaptive policies and directives on promoting water resilience across all stores (i.e. oceans, lakes, rivers and groundwater), as well as across interdisciplinary avenues such as societal or economic uses both locally or globally. We also want to highlight the role of science in providing scientific evidence-based guidelines for fostering blue diplomacy in transboundary river basin cooperation initiatives, ocean governance, water use tradeoffs, and the need for interdisciplinary approaches to addressing water resilience in a changing and extreme climate.
Therefore, we welcome abstracts that contribute to interdisciplinary science-policy research on building water resilience, transboundary water issues, stakeholder dialogues, results from living labs, water diplomacy initiatives, and related topics.