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Looking beyond glaciers to understand mountain water security

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NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
卷 6, 期 2, 页码 130-138

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00996-4

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Changes in the mountain cryosphere have significant impacts on downstream water security and water-dependent ecosystems. To better assess mountain water security, it is necessary to understand the complex interaction between glacial meltwater and human-natural systems. This requires a shift towards a more integrated social-ecological perspective and the integration of locally relevant knowledge into a collaborative science-policy-community framework. This approach, combined with hydrological risk assessment, can support the development of tailored and transformational adaptation strategies.
Changes in the mountain cryosphere impact the water security of downstream societies and the resilience of water-dependent ecosystems and their services. However, assessing mountain water security requires better understanding of the complex interaction between glacial meltwater and coupled human-natural systems. In this context, we call for a refocusing from glacio-hydrological monitoring and modelling to a more integrated social-ecological perspective of the wider catchment hydrology. This shift requires locally relevant knowledge-production strategies and the integration of such knowledge into a collaborative science-policy-community framework. This approach, combined with hydrological risk assessment, can support the development of robust, locally tailored and transformational adaptation strategies. Moving from a glacial-hydrological focus to a social-ecological perspective of the wider catchment hydrology can improve the assessment of mountain water security. Such a shift can help in the development of context-specific and transformational adaptation strategies to changes in the mountain cryosphere.

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