Castro, Antonio J.Quintas-Soriano, CristinaBrandt, JodiAtkinson, Carla L.Baxter, Colden V.Burnham, MoreyEgoh, Benis N.Garcia-Llorente, MarinaJulian, Jason P.Martin-Lopez, BertaLiao, Felix HaifengRunning, KatrinaVaughn, Caryn C.Norstrom, Albert V.2021-07-082021-07-082018-05Castro, A. J., Quintas-Soriano, C., Brandt, J., Atkinson, C. L., Baxter, C. V., Burnham, M., Egoh, B. N., García-Llorente, M., Julian, J. P., Martín-López, B., Liao, F. H., Running, K., Vaughn, C. C., & Norström, A. V. (2018). Applying place-based social-ecological research to address water scarcity: Insights for future research. Sustainability, 10(5): 1516.2071-1050https://hdl.handle.net/10877/13827Globally, environmental and social change in water-scarce regions challenge the sustainability of social-ecological systems. WaterSES, a sponsored working group within the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society, explores and compares the social-ecological dynamics related to water scarcity across placed-based international research sites with contrasting local and regional water needs and governance, including research sites in Spain and Sweden in Europe, South Africa, China, and Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas in the USA. This paper aims to provide a commentary on insights into conducting future solutions-oriented research on water scarcity based on the understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of water scarce regions.Text13 pages1 file (.pdf)enPECSwater governanceecosystem serviceplace-based researchsocial-ecological systemsustainabilitytransdisciplinary scienceGeography and Environmental StudiesArticle© 2018 The Authors.https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051516This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.