While the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, establishes an ambitious set of goals, targets and indicators for supporting global sustainability, greater conceptual clarity is required to measure implementation. A key UN Target (6.5) for implementing sustainable development goal (SDG) 6 is to ‘implement integrated water resources management (IWRM) at all levels’. However, we argue that the current UN emphasis on measuring its implementation through institutional indicators limits our understanding of effectiveness, while ignoring links to other SDGs. While IWRM is often interpreted to mean the integration of water-related management components at the river basin scale, conceptualizations differ significantly. Specifying the critical normative principles of IWRM, therefore, becomes important for measuring its implementation. Drawing upon pre-existing conceptualizations, we consequently identify seven core principles or dimensions (integration; scale; institutions; participation; economic valuation; equity; and, environmental/ecological protection) to re-conceptualize IWRM after the adoption of agenda 2030. These dimensions, we argue, allow more objective measurement of IWRM implementation through the development of Target 6.5 sub-indicators. They also help shift IWRM beyond its current ‘water centric’ emphasis to enhance its contribution to achieving other SDGs such as those for ending poverty, providing clean and affordable energy, achieving gender equality, protecting terrestrial ecosystems, promoting sustainable cities, combatting hunger and climate change, and strengthening the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.

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超越以水为中心？概念化水资源综合管理，以实现可持续发展目标

2015年通过的《联合国2030年可持续发展议程》确立了雄心勃勃的一系列目标，指标和指标，以支持全球可持续发展，但还需要在概念上更清晰地衡量实施情况。实施可持续发展目标（SDG）6的关键联合国目标（6.5）是“在所有级别实施水资源综合管理（IWRM）”。但是，我们认为，当前联合国强调通过机构指标来衡量其实施情况，这限制了我们对有效性的理解，而忽视了与其他可持续发展目标的联系。虽然水资源综合管理通常被解释为在流域范围内整合了与水有关的管理组成部分，但概念上却有很大差异。因此，指定IWRM的关键规范原则，对于衡量其实施情况很重要。因此，根据先前的概念，我们确定了七个核心原则或维度（整合，规模，机构，参与，经济估值，公平以及环境/生态保护），以在通过议程2030后重新概念化水资源综合管理。 ，我们认为，通过制定Target 6.5子指标，可以更客观地评估IWRM的实施情况。它们还有助于将水资源综合管理从目前的“以水为中心”的重点转移到其他方面，以增加其对实现其他可持续发展目标的贡献，例如消除贫困，提供清洁和负担得起的能源，实现性别平等，保护陆地生态系统，促进可持续城市发展，消除饥饿和气候变化更改，