@article{Drenkhan2022,

title = {Looking beyond glaciers to understand mountain water security},

author = {Fabian Drenkhan and Wouter Buytaert and Jonathan D. Mackay and Nicholas E. Barrand and David M. Hannah and Christian Huggel},

url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00996-4},

doi = {10.1038/s41893-022-00996-4},

issn = {2398-9629},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Nature Sustainability 2022 6:2},

volume = {6},

issue = {2},

pages = {130-138},

publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},

abstract = {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.},

keywords = {change adaptation, change impacts, Climate, Hydrology, Sustainability},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}