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Journal article
Attitudes toward water resilience and potential for improvement
Global Sustainability, Vol.6, pp.1-12
2023
Abstract
Water in the Anthropocene is threatened. Water governance aligned with the complex, dynamic, and uncertain nature of social–ecological systems (a ‘water resilience’ paradigm) is needed, and requires transformative change. We queried the potential for transformative change from the perspective that societal worldviews/paradigms offer an important leverage point for system change. Our study aimed to identify attitudes about water resilience and the extent to which there was potential for greater endorsement of water resilience. We surveyed individuals in six countries using vignettes to determine their level of water resilience endorsement (n = 2649). Overall water resilience endorsement was moderate (M = 2.86 out of 4). In some countries, a vignette related to a personally relevant water issue resulted in higher water resilience endorsement. More than half of the respondents held the potential for greater water resilience endorsement. Those with the greatest potential were younger, had children, considered religion more important, were more likely to live in urban areas, and lived in the same area for 10+ years. These findings provide guidance how to engage with the public (e.g. age-specific or parent-focused framing) to potentially increase societal water resilience endorsement.
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- Title
- Attitudes toward water resilience and potential for improvement
- Authors
- Julia Baird (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterGillian Dale (Author) - Brock UniversityGary Pickering (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Cluster
- Publication details
- Global Sustainability, Vol.6, pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1017/sus.2023.23
- ISSN
- 2059-4798
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
- Data Availability
- Data used to produce the figures are available as the Supplementary material. The full dataset used in this study remains in use for further analysis and is available from the corresponding author by request.
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99996895802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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