Charting synergies in global water agendas : a strategic science–policy–practice approach

Shafiei, Mojtaba (avtor), Gharesifard, Mohammad (avtor), Thomas, Brian (avtor), Islam, Nazimul (avtor), Dietrich, Stephan (avtor), Mikoš, Matjaž (avtor)

Water plays a central connecting role within the climate system, linking meteorological, hydrological, and earth system processes with societal dimensions such as water resource demands and risks associated with pollution, droughts, and floods. Global water challenges are addressed through multiple international agendas related to sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, and water security. While these agendas share broadly aligned objectives, they differ in scope, scale, and modes of operationalization. Together, they shape how scientific knowledge is mobilized, policies are formulated, and actions are implemented. As the 2030 Agenda approaches its conclusion, there is a growing need to review and map global water agendas in order to better understand their interactions and support more coherent responses to complex water challenges. Rather than viewing global water agendas as parallel and independent efforts, they can be understood as interconnected learning pathways through which shared objectives, knowledge, and practical experience evolve over time. From this perspective, synergies emerge across these learning pathways through reflection, coordination, and exchange between science, policy, and practice. Clarifying how such synergies can be recognized, supported, and strengthened is therefore essential for advancing more integrated and impactful responses to global water challenges. The Strategic UN Synergy Working Group (SUN) operates within the IAHS HELPING Science for Solutions Decade (2023–2032) and aims to strengthen the contribution of hydrological science to international policy processes and practical implementation programmes. Guided by the HELPING paradigm, SUN facilitates bottom-up engagement, open science, and co-creation principles to support learning across scales and the translation of hydrological knowledge into policy and action. This contribution introduces the vision, structure, and core activities of the SUN Working Group, with a focus on understanding global water agendas and supporting synergies through a science–policy–practice approach. SUN builds on the understanding of global water agendas as interconnected learning pathways, and we will illustrate how coordinated learning pathways can help advance more coherent, integrated, and future-oriented global water agenda.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Vrsta gradiva: Izvleček, povzetek
• Tipologija: 1.12 - Objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci
• Organizacija: FGG - Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 2 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-181070
• UDK: 556
• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18624
• COBISS.SI-ID: 272607235
• Datum objave v RUL: 24.03.2026

Gradivo je del monografije

• Naslov: EGU General Assembly 2026 : Vienna, Austria & Online, 3–8 May 2026
• Kraj izida: [Munich]
• Založnik: EGU - European Geosciences Union
• Leto izida: 2026
• COBISS.SI-ID: 272591107

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
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Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: mednarodno sodelovanje, znanost in družba, vodna agenda, Mednarodno združenje za hidrološke znanosti