Liquid futures: Water management systems and anticipated environments

• Main Authors: RANDLE, Sayd, BARNES, Jessica
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: climate change; hydrological dynamics; water managers; policy makers; adaptation; future environments; waterscapes; imagined environmental futures; policies; practices; infrastructures; legal frameworks; environmental stasis; perturbation; water networks; land reclamation; interbasin water transfer schemes; sociohydrological stability; human capacity; environmental outcomes; full human control; mastery; environmental imaginaries; resilient waterscapes; climate proof; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/93; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1092/viewcontent/liquid_futures.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Climate change and its impact on hydrological dynamics have become key topics of concern among water managers and policy makers in many parts of the world. Yet while practitioners often frame adaptation to a climate-changed future as a novel issue, ideas about future environments have long influence...