Tremendous development of irrigation since the 1960s combined with unbalanced water resources management led to the destruction of the ecosystems in the delta zone and the gradual desiccation of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest freshwater lake of the world. Command-and-control based water ma...
Bekchanov, Maksud
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Ringler, Claudia
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Bhaduri, Anik
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[A water rights trading approach to increasing inflows to the Aral Sea]
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A water rights trading approach to increasing inflows to the Aral Sea
Systemic threats to food‐energy‐environment‐water systems require national policy responses. Yet complete control of these complex systems is impossible and attempts to mitigate systemic risks can generate unexpected feedback effects. Perverse outcomes from national policy can emerge from the div...
Wyrwoll, Paul R.
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Grafton, R. Quentin
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Daniell, Katherine A.
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Chu, Hoang Long
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Ringler, Claudia
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Lien, Le Thi Ha
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Khoi, Dang Kim
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Do, Thang Nam
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Tuan, Nguyen Do Anh
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[Decision‐making for systemic water risks: insights from a participatory risk assessment process in Vietnam]
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Decision‐making for systemic water risks: insights from a participatory risk assessment process in Vietnam
Following the debate on whether drought has become more severe under climate change, this paper assesses drought frequency in northern and eastern India using two datasets of Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) (generated by Dai, 2013 and Sheffield et al., 2012). The univariate return period for...
Gea, Yan
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Cai, Ximing
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Zhu, Tingju
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Ringler, Claudia
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[Drought frequency change: An assessment in northern India plains]
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Drought frequency change: An assessment in northern India plains
Interventions that aim to increase water availability for agriculture hold great potential for improving nutrition through increasing food production, generating income, enhancing water access and sanitation and hygiene conditions, and through strengthening women’s empowerment. Yet there is scarc...
Passarelli, Simone
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Mekonnen, Dawit
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Ringler, Claudia
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[Evaluating the pathways from small-scale irrigation to dietary diversity: evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania]
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Evaluating the pathways from small-scale irrigation to dietary diversity: evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania
One of humanity’s major challenges of the 21st century will be meeting future food demands on an increasingly resource constrained-planet. Global food production will have to rise by 70 percent between 2000 and 2050 to meet effective demand which poses major challenges to food production systems....
Flachsbarth, I.
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Willaarts, B.
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Xie, H.
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Pitois, G.
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Mueller, N.D.
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Ringler, Claudia
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Garrido, A.
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[The role of Latin America's land and water resources for global food security: environmental trade-offs of future food production pathways]
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The role of Latin America's land and water resources for global food security: environmental trade-offs of future food production pathways
This paper explores the major determinants of heavy reliance on groundwater and the extent to which conjunctive use of ground and surface water affects the production efficiency of Pakistan’s irrigators. The results show that the major drivers of groundwater use in Pakistan’s agriculture are the ...
Mekonnen, D.
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Siddiqib, Afreen
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Ringler, Claudia
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[Drivers of groundwater use and technical efficiency of groundwater, canal water, and conjunctive use in Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System]
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Drivers of groundwater use and technical efficiency of groundwater, canal water, and conjunctive use in Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System
In this article the authors assess the potential impacts of projected climate change on water, livelihoods and food security in the Basin Focal Projet basins. The authors consider expected change within the context of recently observed climate variability in the basins to better understand the po...
Mulligan, M.
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Fisher, M.
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Sharma B
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Xu ZX
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Ringler, Claudia
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Mahe G
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Jarvis, Andy
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Clanet, J.C.
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Ogilvie A
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Ahmad, M.
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[The nature and impact of climate change in the challenge program on water and food (CPWF) basins]
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The nature and impact of climate change in the challenge program on water and food (CPWF) basins
Conway, D.
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Garderen, E.A. van
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Deryng, Delphine
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Dorling, S.
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Krueger, T.
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Landman, W.
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Lankford, B.A.
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Lebek, L.
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Osborn, T.
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Ringler, Claudia
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Thurlow, J.
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Zhu, T.
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Dalin, C.
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[Climate and southern Africa’s water–energy–food nexus]
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Climate and southern Africa’s water–energy–food nexus
Researchers and decision-makers lack a shared understanding of resilience, and practical applications in environmental resource management are rare. Here, we define social-ecological resilience as a property of social-ecological systems that includes at least three main characteristics — resistan...
Water, food, energy, and the ecosystems they depend on interact with each other in highly complex and interlinked ways. These interdependencies can be traced particularly well in the context of a river basin, which is delineated by hydrological boundaries. The interactions are shaped by humans in...
Yang, Jie
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Yang, Y.C. Ethan
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Khan, Hassaan F.
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Xie, Hua
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Ringler, Claudia
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[Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin]
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Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin