Thanti Octavianti Thanti.Octavianti@uwe.ac.uk
Lecturer in Applied Geography
A review of 80 assessment tools measuring water security
Octavianti, Thanti; Staddon, Chad
Authors
Chad Staddon Chad.Staddon@uwe.ac.uk
Professor/Associate Head of Department: Research and Scholarship
Abstract
© 2021 The Authors. WIREs Water published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Scholars and practitioners have been working on methodologies to measure water security at a variety of scale and focus. In this paper, we critically examine the landscape of water security metrics, discussing the progress and gaps of this rich scholarship. We reviewed a total of 107 publications consisting of 17 conceptual papers and 90 methodological papers that propose 80 metrics to measure water security and observed that there are two dominant research clusters in this field: experiential scale-based metrics and resource-based metrics. The former mainly focus on measuring the water experiences of households and its impact on human well-being, while the majority of the latter assess freshwater availability or water resources security. We compare their approaches and the arguments used to develop them. We posit that the more local the scale and the more specific the water domain, the more meaningful results that the metrics can provide. Acknowledging the interrelationship between different water domains (e.g., water resources and water hazards) is important, but their aggregation for measurement may be problematic. We offer our views on future work in this field relating to topics beyond water, the need to conduct validation tests, and collaboration among academics and with other stakeholders. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Human Water.
Citation
Octavianti, T., & Staddon, C. (2021). A review of 80 assessment tools measuring water security. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(3), Article e1516. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1516
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 4, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 24, 2021 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Mar 9, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 15, 2021 |
Journal | WIREs Water |
Print ISSN | 2049-1948 |
Electronic ISSN | 2049-1948 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 3 |
Article Number | e1516 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1516 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7193532 |
Additional Information | Received: 2020-11-18; Accepted: 2021-02-04; Published: 2021-02-24 |
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