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.

解决水安全面临的棘手问题需要多个利益相关者的参与，而这些利益相关者往往有着相互冲突的愿景，这使得水安全目标的实现变得更加复杂，并更加需要综合有效的科学政策界面。科学政策网络内持续的多方利益相关者对话可以改善适应性治理和水系统的复原力。本文描述了我们所定义的“科学政策对话网络”，或者说科学家和政策制定者之间的结构性和程序性互动：1）跨学科，2）国际性（此处为美洲间） ，3）跨部门，4）开放，5）长期持续迭代，6）灵活。通过促进这些类型的互动，对话网络实现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，我们提出了几个水安全研究和行动项目，其中可能存在其中一些属性。其中，一个更全面的对话网络是通过 AQUASEC 有意创建的，AQUASEC 是一个虚拟中心和网络，最初是由美洲全球变化研究所的一系列资助建立的。随后，在劳埃德船级社基金会和其他来源的支持下，AQUASEC 通过直接联系和对国际水安全网络的额外计划支持，显着扩展到其他地区。本文重点介绍了一系列著名的科学政策网络、科学与政策相结合的共享实践、方法和知识的主要科学和政策成就，以及网络发展中克服的主要障碍。 未来研究仍然存在的一个重要空白是对对话科学政策网络的长期结果的评估和评估。