Modern bioenergy systems are attracting increasing attention from governments in Asia as a potential solution to a range of policy problems related to energy security and sustainable development. Despite growing interest in bioenergy systems, there is still a limited understanding of how their ex...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Damen, B.
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Eriyagama, Nishadi
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Soda, Wannipa
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Water and bioenergy a case study from the Thai ethanol sector.]
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Water and bioenergy a case study from the Thai ethanol sector.
The Nile provides freshwater not only for domestic and industrial use, but also for irrigated agriculture, hydropower dams and the vast fisheries resource of the lakes of Central Africa. The Nile River Basin covers the whole Nile Basin and is based on the results of three major research projects ...
Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Molden, David J.
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Peden, Donald G.
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[The Nile River Basin: Water, agriculture, governance and livelihoods]
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The Nile River Basin: Water, agriculture, governance and livelihoods
The subject of change detection in climate time series has recently received greater interest as the perception of a human-induced change in the climate is now widely accepted. However, changes in regional precipitation and temperature remain uncertain. This study characterizes projected fine-sca...
Lacombe, Guillaume
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Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Multi-year variability or unidirectional trends?: mapping long-term precipitation and temperature changes in continental Southeast Asia using PRECIS regional climate model.]
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Multi-year variability or unidirectional trends?: mapping long-term precipitation and temperature changes in continental Southeast Asia using PRECIS regional climate model.
The basins of the Indus and Ganges rivers cover 2.20 million km2 and are inhabited by more than a billion people. The region is under extreme pressures of population and poverty, unregulated utilization of the resources and low levels of productivity. The needs are: (1) development policies that ...
Sharma, Bharat R.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Xueliang Cai
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Condappa, D. de
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Shah, Tushaar
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Mukherji, Aditi
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Bharati, Luna
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Ambili, G.K.
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Qureshi, Asad Sarwar
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Pant, Dhruba
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Xenarios, Stefanos
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Singh, R.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Xueliang Cai
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Condappa, D. de
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Shah, Tushaar
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Mukherji, Aditi
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Bharati, Luna
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Ambili, G.K.
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Qureshi, Asad Sarwar
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Pant, Dhruba
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Xenarios, Stefanos
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Singh, R.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure.]
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The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure.
As Sri Lankan water resources are being increasingly exploited, particularly for hydropower and irrigation, ecologists, water practitioners and policymakers alike are realizing the importance of protecting these resources and setting environmental sustainability thresholds. Environmental Flows (E...
Eriyagama, Nishadi
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Jinapala, K.
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[The Sri Lanka environmental flow calculator: a science-based tool to support sustainable national water management]
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The Sri Lanka environmental flow calculator: a science-based tool to support sustainable national water management
The major present hindrance in using desalination to help alleviate global water scarcity is the cost of this technology, which, in turn is due to energy cost involved. This study examines historical trends in desalination and breaks up the cost of desalination into energy based and nonenergy bas...
Sood, Aditya
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Can desalination and clean energy combined help to alleviate global water scarcity?]
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Can desalination and clean energy combined help to alleviate global water scarcity?
This paper presents algorithm for flood inundation mapping to understand seasonal and annual changes in the flood extent and in the context of emergency response. Time-series profiles of Land Surface Water Index (LSWI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI...
Amarnath, Giriraj
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Ameer, Mohamed
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Detecting spatio-temporal changes in the extent of seasonal and annual flooding in South Asia using multi-resolution satellite data.]
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Detecting spatio-temporal changes in the extent of seasonal and annual flooding in South Asia using multi-resolution satellite data.
The Syrdarya river is an example of a transboundary basin with contradictory water use requirements between its upstream and downstream parts. Since the winter of 1992-93, the operational regime of the upstream Toktogul reservoir on the Naryn river - the main tributary of the Syrdarya - has shift...
Karimov, Akmal
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Mavlonov, A.
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Gracheva, I.
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[Water banking in Fergana valley aquifers: a solution to water allocation in the Syrdarya river basin?]
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Water banking in Fergana valley aquifers: a solution to water allocation in the Syrdarya river basin?
A river basin is referred to as 'closed' when all its river flow is allocated to different uses. Water requirements of freshwater-dependent ecosystems, often referred to as 'environmental flow requirements', only recently started to receive attention. This 'user' is still often neglected in river...