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  • Glossary item | 20 Mar 2025

Water resilience

Water resilience can be defined as the role of water in safeguarding and sustaining a particular desired state of a social-ecological system, ranging from sustaining the state of ecosystems and biomes, to the stability of regional weather and climate systems, and the ability of the hydrological cycle to maintain stable water supply for societies and ultimately the state of the biosphere and the Earth system (through moisture feedback, climate forcing, and regulating biomass growth in terrestrial ecosystems).

Malin Falkenmark, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Johan Rockström, Understanding of water resilience in the Anthropocene, Journal of Hydrology X, Volume 2, 2019, 100009, ISSN 2589-9155, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydroa.2018.100009

Source category: Scientific and Technical Literature