Addressing wicked problems challenging water security requires participation from multiple stakeholders, often with conflicting visions, complicating the attainment of water-security goals and heightening the need for integrative and effective science-policy interfaces. Sustained multi-stakeholder dialogues within science-policy networks can improve adaptive governance and water system resilience. This paper describes what we define as “dialogic science-policy networks,” or interactions -- both in structural and procedural terms -- between scientists and policy-makers that are: 1) interdisciplinary, 2) international (here, inter-American), 3) cross-sectoral, 4) open, 5) continual and iterative in the long-term, and 6) flexible. By fostering these types of interactions, dialogic networks achieve what we call the 4-I criteria for effective science-policy dialogues: inclusivity, involvement, interaction, and influence. Here we present several water-security research and action projects where some of these attributes may be present. Among these, a more comprehensive form of a dialogic network was intentionally created via AQUASEC, a virtual center and network initially fostered by a series of grants from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Subsequently, AQUASEC has significantly expanded to other regions through direct linkages and additional program support for the International Water Security Network, supported by Lloyd's Register Foundation and other sources. This paper highlights major scientific and policy achievements of a notable suite of science-policy networks, shared practices, methods, and knowledge integrating science and policy, as well as the main barriers overcome in network development. An important gap that remains for future research is the assessment and evaluation of dialogic science-policy networks' long-term outcomes.

要解决挑战水安全的邪恶问题，就需要多个利益相关者的参与，往往会有相互冲突的愿景，这使水安全目标的实现变得复杂，并且对综合有效的科学政策互动的需求也越来越高。在科学政策网络内进行持续的多方利益相关者对话，可以提高适应性治理和水系统的适应能力。本文描述了我们定义为“对话科学-政策网络”或科学家与政策制定者之间在结构和程序上的相互作用：1）跨学科； 2）国际（此处为美洲） ，3）跨部门，4）开放，5）长期连续和迭代，6）灵活。通过促进这些类型的互动，对话网络达到了我们所说的有效科学政策对话的4-I标准：包容性，参与性，互动性和影响力。在这里，我们提出了一些水安全研究和行动项目，其中某些属性可能存在。其中，有意通过AQUASEC创建了一个更全面的对话网络形式，AQUASEC是一个虚拟中心和网络，最初是由美洲全球变化研究所提供的一系列赠款建立的。随后，AQUASEC通过直接联系和由劳埃德船级社基金会（Lloyd's Register Foundation）和其他来源提供的对国际水安全网络的额外计划支持，已将业务扩展到其他地区。本文重点介绍了一系列著名的科学政策网络，共享实践，方法，知识与科学与政策相结合，以及网络发展中克服的主要障碍。对话科学-政策网络的长期成果的评估和评估仍是未来研究的重要空白。