What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?

Increasing pressure on water resources from demographic shifts, climate change, and development patterns is affecting water access and water availability in Arctic households. There is an urgent need to improve understanding of the factors that contribute to Arctic household water vulnerability. Thi...

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Main Authors: Sohns, A, Ford, J, Robinson, BE, Adamowski, J
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019
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spelling ftleedsuniv:oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147512 2023-05-15T14:25:13+02:00 What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic? Sohns, A Ford, J Robinson, BE Adamowski, J 2019-07-01 text https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/147512/ https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/147512/3/QCA%20paper_Sohns%20et%20al_April8_clean.pdf en eng Elsevier https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/147512/3/QCA%20paper_Sohns%20et%20al_April8_clean.pdf Sohns, A, Ford, J orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-3456 , Robinson, BE et al. (1 more author) (2019) What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic? Environmental Science and Policy, 97. pp. 95-105. ISSN 1462-9011 cc_by_nc_nd_4 CC-BY-NC-ND Article NonPeerReviewed 2019 ftleedsuniv 2023-01-30T22:19:53Z Increasing pressure on water resources from demographic shifts, climate change, and development patterns is affecting water access and water availability in Arctic households. There is an urgent need to improve understanding of the factors that contribute to Arctic household water vulnerability. This paper examines the key conditions or combinations of conditions associated with water access and water availability that collectively impact household water vulnerability in the Arctic based on an analysis of 28 case studies. Five conditions were identified through a literature review as contributing to household water vulnerability: inadequate freshwater policies, inadequate funding, inadequate infrastructure, biophysical variability, and societal changes. We used qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to explore the configurations of these conditions along causal pathways that lead to household water vulnerability. The case studies were grouped into one of three typologies of household water vulnerability: political ecology, water security, or socio-hydrology. Through the analysis, absence of societal change in the Arctic was found to be a necessary condition for the political ecology typology, and the presence of freshwater policies and societal change in the Arctic were observed to be necessary conditions for the socio-hydrology typology. The research reveals how societal changes and anthropogenic factors contribute to household water vulnerability and must be considered in present and future Arctic freshwater policy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change White Rose Research Online (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield & York) Arctic
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description Increasing pressure on water resources from demographic shifts, climate change, and development patterns is affecting water access and water availability in Arctic households. There is an urgent need to improve understanding of the factors that contribute to Arctic household water vulnerability. This paper examines the key conditions or combinations of conditions associated with water access and water availability that collectively impact household water vulnerability in the Arctic based on an analysis of 28 case studies. Five conditions were identified through a literature review as contributing to household water vulnerability: inadequate freshwater policies, inadequate funding, inadequate infrastructure, biophysical variability, and societal changes. We used qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to explore the configurations of these conditions along causal pathways that lead to household water vulnerability. The case studies were grouped into one of three typologies of household water vulnerability: political ecology, water security, or socio-hydrology. Through the analysis, absence of societal change in the Arctic was found to be a necessary condition for the political ecology typology, and the presence of freshwater policies and societal change in the Arctic were observed to be necessary conditions for the socio-hydrology typology. The research reveals how societal changes and anthropogenic factors contribute to household water vulnerability and must be considered in present and future Arctic freshwater policy.
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What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?
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title What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?
title_short What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?
title_full What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?
title_fullStr What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?
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Sohns, A, Ford, J orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-3456 , Robinson, BE et al. (1 more author) (2019) What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic? Environmental Science and Policy, 97. pp. 95-105. ISSN 1462-9011
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