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Europe faces intensifying water cycle disruptions and more frequent, severe droughts and floods driven by climate change, threatening public supply, agriculture, energy, and aquatic ecosystems.
Fragmented and overlapping governance arrangements undermine effective water management, calling for coordinated, multi‑level, cross‑sector action and clearer accountability.
The brief contrasts two complementary action pathways: top‑down regulatory compliance and bottom‑up voluntary collaboration to shift stakeholder practices and accelerate solutions.
InnWater advances social innovation to renew multi‑level, cross‑sector water governance, co‑developing tools and services with stakeholders and testing them across five pilot sites to support evidence‑based decisions.
Core solutions include a contextual water governance assessment tool grounded in OECD principles, a citizen engagement framework based on the socio‑political consensus helix, and economic modelling tools for pricing and service performance.
The WEFE+H nexus is used to integrate interdependencies among water, energy, food, ecosystems, and health, guiding coherent strategies for long‑term sustainability.
Key messages stress prioritising water challenges politically, empowering local governance, deploying innovative multi‑level management, and leveraging social innovation to co‑create and test governance solutions.
Pilot sites address climate extremes, scarcity, quality, allocation, policy implementation, coordination, engagement, and pricing, creating a scalable testbed for governance improvements across contexts.
Fragmented and overlapping governance arrangements undermine effective water management, calling for coordinated, multi‑level, cross‑sector action and clearer accountability.
The brief contrasts two complementary action pathways: top‑down regulatory compliance and bottom‑up voluntary collaboration to shift stakeholder practices and accelerate solutions.
InnWater advances social innovation to renew multi‑level, cross‑sector water governance, co‑developing tools and services with stakeholders and testing them across five pilot sites to support evidence‑based decisions.
Core solutions include a contextual water governance assessment tool grounded in OECD principles, a citizen engagement framework based on the socio‑political consensus helix, and economic modelling tools for pricing and service performance.
The WEFE+H nexus is used to integrate interdependencies among water, energy, food, ecosystems, and health, guiding coherent strategies for long‑term sustainability.
Key messages stress prioritising water challenges politically, empowering local governance, deploying innovative multi‑level management, and leveraging social innovation to co‑create and test governance solutions.
Pilot sites address climate extremes, scarcity, quality, allocation, policy implementation, coordination, engagement, and pricing, creating a scalable testbed for governance improvements across contexts.
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