Invisible water security: Moisture recycling and water resilience

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dc.contributor.authorKeys, Patrick W.
dc.contributor.authorPorkka, Miina
dc.contributor.authorWang-Erlandsson, Lan
dc.contributor.authorFetzer, Ingo
dc.contributor.authorGleeson, Tom
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Line J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-27T00:12:12Z
dc.date.available2020-01-27T00:12:12Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWater security is key to planetary resilience for human society to flourish in the face of global change. Atmospheric moisture recycling – the process of water evaporating from land, flowing through the atmosphere, and falling out again as precipitation over land – is the invisible mechanism by which water influences resilience, that is the capacity to persist, adapt, and transform. Through land-use change, mainly by agricultural expansion, humans are destabilizing and modifying moisture recycling and precipitation patterns across the world. Here, we provide an overview of how moisture recycling changes may threaten tropical forests, dryland ecosystems, agriculture production, river flows, and water supplies in megacities, and review the budding literature that explores possibilities to more consciously manage and govern moisture recycling. Novel concepts such as the precipitationshed allows for the source region of precipitation to be understood, addressed and incorporated in existing water resources tools and sustainability frameworks. We conclude that achieving water security and resilience requires that we understand the implications of human influence on moisture recycling, and that new research is paving the way for future possibilities to manage and mitigate potentially catastrophic effects of land use and water system change.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPK acknowledges support from NASA Program ‘Sustaining Living Systems in a Time of Climate Variability and Change’ (award #80NSSC19K0182: ‘Cross-scale Impacts of SDG 15 achievement’). LWE and IF acknowledge support from Research Council Formas (Project Ripples of Resilience, 2018-02345), the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement (Project Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene, ERC-2016-ADG 743080). LWE also acknowledges support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellowship (ID: P-17761). MP acknowledges support from Research Area 7 of The Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKeys, P.W., Porkka, M., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Fetzer, I., Gleeson, T. & Gordon, L.J. (2019). Invisible water security: Moisture recycling and water resilience. Water Security, 8, 100046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100046en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100046
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11518
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWater Securityen_US
dc.subjectWater
dc.subjectPrecipitation
dc.subjectEvaporation
dc.subjectMoisture recycling
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectSystem dynamics
dc.subjectWater governance
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Civil Engineering
dc.titleInvisible water security: Moisture recycling and water resilienceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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