Experts’ understandings of drinking water risk management in a climate change scenario

摘要: The challenges for society presented by climate change are complex and demanding. This paper focuses on one particular resource of utmost necessity vulnerability to change: namely, the provisioning safe drinking water. From a critical perspective role expertise in risk debates, this looks at how Swedish experts understand water scenario they reason about management adaptation strategies. empirical material derives from ten in-depth semi-structured interviews with experts, employed both government agencies universities, disciplinary backgrounds variety fields (water engineering, planning, geology environmental chemistry). factors affecting quality availability as systemically interrelated. A lack political saliency public service is identified an obstacle development robust Another area concern relates geographical, organizational institutional boundaries (regulatory, epistemological) between plethora actors partly overlapping sometimes unclear responsibilities study concludes that regarding will require new integration knowledge systemic relations, combination more efficient agency collaboration based clear demarcation responsibility actors.