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July 31, 2026Current Opinion in Environmental SustainabilityOpen Access

What do we know about innovation in water governance?

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BDBruno DamásioCCCátia Miriam CostaAVAndrea Vezzulli

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Overview

Analysis uncovers scientific expertise in water governance, indicating knowledge evolution over decades.

Key Points

  • This research aims to systematically map the scientific and engineering expertise that informs water governance responses to various pressures.
  • Analyzed 11,186 peer-reviewed articles from Web of Science (1980–2024) using structured queries.
  • Employed Latent Dirichlet Allocation to identify six thematic streams of expertise.
  • Used Hirschman-Herfindahl and Revealed Technological Advantage indices to assess trends in concentration and specialization.
  • Treatment-process engineering is the dominant theme, but diversification has increased since 2018.
  • Contaminant control and sensing-and-detection methods show the fastest growth rates.
  • Resource recovery knowledge, vital for circular economy transitions, is expanding slowly and losing share.

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Damásio et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6c46e6747664a1aa73bbf9https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2026.101701
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