Pluralizing Water Knowledge for Inclusive Water Governance: Meaning-making, Co-creation and Transdisciplinarity

This Research Topic is part of a series of article collections published within Frontiers in Water for the the 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference.The other themes within this series are:- Participatory and Just Governance: Empowering Local and Indigenous Communities.- Expanding Sociohydrology: Embracing Spatial Heterogeneity and Emerging Nexuses.- Comparative Sociohydrology Across Places and Scales: Aiming Towards Synthesis.- Mainstreaming Sociohydrology: Towards Designing and Implementing Management Interventions.Watch the Topic Editors discuss the themes of the Research Topics and preview the conference at a recent Townhall: Expanding and Mainstreaming Sociohydrology Toward Transdisciplinary PraxisGenerating knowledge with the potential to advance transformative policies requires the co-involvement of natural and social scientists, policymakers, practitioners, and the local communities that experience most significantly the impacts of water-related challenges and related development struggles. In this context, socio-hydrology can play a crucial role in crafting sustainable water futures that respect and acknowledge site and time-specific particularities and a wide range of perspectives, including those based on lived experiences and intergenerational knowledge. How can we ensure that socio-hydrology is part of the discussion and contributes to more inclusive knowledge-to-action (K2A) pathways and equitable water governance? To answer such question, this theme focuses on:i) Pluralizing water knowledge through interdisciplinary engagement that combines natural and (critical) social sciences to generate power-sensitive and justice-focussed accounts of hydrological change.ii) Conceptualizing approaches and empirical examples of knowledge co-creation that recognize the value of different forms of knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, and gendered and local voices, to investigate new causalities and address water-related challenges at multiple scales.iii) Mapping models and paradigms to break barriers and make science-society work in closer synergy, integrating socio-hydrological and hydrosocial sciences.iv) Investigating the potential of collaborative interactive governance in conflict-laden transboundary basins.v) Promoting the role of qualitative insights such as ethnography, visualization techniques, and novel digital/open science means to generate transdisciplinary knowledge.vi) And finally, acknowledging ways to navigate through and take responsibility for the entanglements between sociohydrological and hydrosocial science and politics. Topic editors: Jenia Mukherjee, Melissa Haeffner, Maria Rusca, Fernando Nardi, Britta Höllermann, Marcus Nüsser, Keigo Noda Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/67712/pluralizing-water-knowledge-for-inclusive-water-governance-meaning-making-co-creation-and-transdisciplinarity