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2. He korowai o Matainaka / The cloak of Matainaka: Traditional ecological knowledge in climate change adaptation - Te Wai Pounamu, New Zealand.
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Carter, Lyn
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TRADITIONAL ecological knowledge ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge ,CLIMATE change ,SUSTAINABLE development ,WATERSHEDS ,SUSTAINABILITY ,RESTORATION ecology - Abstract
In the New Zealand landscape, the mahika kai sites (resource gathering areas) are marked through place names, which act as central reference points (whai take) for a wider ecosystem catchment area and indicate changes over time. The traditional ecological knowledge, awakened through place names, informs and influences the way Māori realise cultural, social, environmental, and economic aspirations and practices (past and present). This paper will draw from a research project in Te Wai Pounamu (South Island), New Zealand that utilises traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) surrounding the place name, Matainaka, which indicate places where Kāi Tahu (South Island Māori tribal group) gathered whitebait (īnaka, Galaxias maculatus): an important fresh water species. A major focus of the research project is the knowledge around socio-cultural tipping points that will impact directly on the future cultural, social and economic sustainability within a specific catchment location, the Waikōuaiti River. The river has spawning and fishing sites for the īnaka mahika kai and comes under the mana whenua (recognised traditional authority) of the Māori tribal group, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki. Traditional ecological knowledge kōrero (speech) explains the importance of Matainaka and its contribution to the surrounding catchment area, and - in contemporary times - works alongside that of scientific knowledge. The project merged TEK and science to find ways to improve future planning and adaptation for habitat restoration and modification, and to lessen impacts on īnaka spawning sites from the expected impacts of climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Ensuring consideration of water quality in nexus approaches in the science–practice continuum: reply to discussion of "Water quality: the missing dimension of water in the water–energy–food nexus?".
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Heal, K. V., Bartosova, A., Hipsey, M. R., Chen, X., Buytaert, W., Li, H.-Y., McGrane, S. J., Gupta, A. B., and Cudennec, C.
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WATER quality ,WATERSHEDS ,SUSTAINABLE development ,COVID-19 pandemic ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
We thank Arnbjerg-Nielsen and co-authors for their constructive contribution. We endorse their key comments and suggestions on how to increase awareness of and action on water quality interactions in the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. Here, we advance the discussion, commenting on the scope of water quality to embrace ecosystem as well as human needs, and the importance of transdisciplinarity and focusing at the city/aquifer/drainage basin scale in WEF nexus hotspots in ensuring that water quality is considered in WEF nexus approaches. We also identify how recent global events, the COVID-19 pandemic and the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 26), may intensify the WEF nexus and its water quality interlinkages, highlighting the need to weave WEF considerations into addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the climate and biodiversity emergencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. The Nexus Solutions Tool (NEST): An open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy-water-land system transformations.
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Vinca, Adriano, Parkinson, Simon, Byers, Edward, Burek, Peter, Khan, Zarrar, Krey, Volker, Diuana, Fabio A., Wang, Yaoping, Ilyas, Ansir, Köberle, Alexandre C., Staffell, Iain, Pfenninger, Stefan, Muhammad, Abubakr, Rowe, Andrew, Schaeffer, Roberto, Rao, Narasimha D., Wada, Yoshihide, Djilali, Ned, and Riahi, Keywan
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GEOSPATIAL data , *CLIMATE change , *LAND resource , *SUSTAINABLE development , *POWER resources , *WATERSHEDS - Abstract
The energy-water-land nexus represents a critical leverage future policies must draw upon to reduce trade-offs between sustainable development objectives. Yet, existing long-term planning tools do not provide the scope or level of integration across the nexus to unravel important development constraints. Moreover, existing tools and data are not always made openly available or are implemented across disparate modeling platforms that can be difficult to link directly with modern scientific computing tools and databases. In this paper, we present the Nexus Solutions Tool (NEST): a new open modeling platform that integrates multi-scale energy-water-land resource optimization with distributed hydrological modeling. The new approach provides insights into the vulnerability of water, energy and land resources to future socioeconomic and climatic change and how multi-sectoral policies, technological solutions and investments can improve the resilience and sustainability of transformation pathways while avoiding counterproductive interactions among sectors. NEST can be applied at different spatial and temporal resolutions, and is designed specifically to tap into the growing body of open access geospatial data available through national inventories and the earth system modeling community. A case study analysis of the Indus River Basin in South Asia demonstrates the capability of the model to capture important interlinkages across system transformation pathways towards the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, including the intersections between local and regional transboundary policies and incremental investment costs from rapidly increasing regional consumption projected over the coming decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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5. A SRES-based gridded global population dataset for 1990–2100.
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Bengtsson, Magnus, Shen, Yanjun, and Oki, Taikan
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POPULATION density ,URBANIZATION ,SUSTAINABLE development ,GLOBAL environmental change ,CLIMATE change ,DEMOGRAPHIC change ,WATERSHEDS ,POPULATION forecasting ,REMOTE sensing - Abstract
Spatially explicit population data can play an important role in studies on environment and sustainability. Several gridded datasets on the present population exist, but global data on future populations are largely lacking. This paper presents a dataset covering three global population forecasts for the period 1990–2100 at 0.5-degrees resolution. The basis for these forecasts is the SRES scenarios developed for the IPCC climate-modeling framework. In addition, a gridded dataset of urban and rural populations for the period 1990–2050 is presented. To illustrate how the datasets can be used, future changes in population density and urbanization were analyzed for some of the world’s major river basins. This analysis shows that the population density in the Ganges basin, which is already very high, is likely to increase considerably. The highest future increase rates were found in some African and Middle-Eastern basins. The population dataset for 2015 was compared with one previously published gridded dataset. The comparison shows some differences in population density, mainly in small, highly urbanized coastal river basins, while for large basins, the two datasets agree fairly well. We hope that the datasets here presented will prove to be a useful resource also for other researchers of global environmental change and sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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6. Assessing Changes of Water Yield in Qinghai Lake Watershed of China.
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Lian, Xi-hong, Qi, Yuan, Wang, Hong-wei, Zhang, Jin-long, and Yang, Rui
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LAND cover ,SUSTAINABLE development ,WATERSHEDS ,WATER ,LAND use - Abstract
Water yield is an important ecosystem service, which is directly related to human welfare and affects the sustainable development. Using the integrated valuation of environmental services and tradeoffs model (InVEST model), we simulated the dynamic change of water yield in Qinghai lake watershed, Qinghai, China, and verified the simulation results. This paper emphatically explored how precipitation change and land use/land cover change (LUCC) affected the change of water yield on the spatial and temporal scales. Before 2004, the areas of cultivated land and unused land showed a dramatic increasing tendency, while forestland and water area presented a decreasing trend. After 2004 cultivated land changed slowly, unused land decreased. Grassland revealed a general trend of decline during 1977–2018, while built-up land basically presented a linear increase. The results show that water yield fluctuated and increased during 1977–2018. From 1977 to 2000, the mean water yield in each sub-watershed showed an increasing trend and afterward a decreasing one. After 2000, the sub-watersheds basically showed an increasing tendency. There was a strong correlation, with a correlation coefficient of 0.954 ** (** correlation is significant at the 0.01 level), between precipitation and water yield. Land use/land cover change can change the hydrological state of infiltration, evapotranspiration, and water retention. Meanwhile, the correlation between built-up land and water yield was the highest, with a correlation coefficient of 0.932, followed by forestland, with a correlation coefficient of 0.897. Through the analysis of different scenarios, we found that compared with land use/land cover change, precipitation played a more dominant role in affecting water yield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. Analysis of Changes in Precipitation and Extremes Events in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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Khoi, Dao Nguyen and Trang, Hoang Thi
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METEOROLOGICAL precipitation ,CLIMATE change ,FLOODS ,WATERSHEDS ,WATER management ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
Precipitation is one of the most important climate variables which can impact the urban water and urban flooding. Thus, knowledge of precipitation and precipitation extremes is important to manage urban water and to design urban drainage infrastructure to reduce the urban flooding. This paper presented trends in precipitation and precipitation extremes in Ho Chi Minh City for the 1980-2013 period based on the precipitation data obtained from nine rain gauges. Non-parametric test, i.e. Mann-Kendall test, was used for trend analysis, and the precipitation extremes indices were used to calculate the extreme events. The results indicated that the precipitation has increasing trend in the northwest part of the city and decreasing trend in the southeast part of the city in the 1980-2013 period. In addition, the precipitation and precipitation extremes had generally increasing trends. The results obtained in this study can be used for urban water management and sustainable urban drainage system in Ho Chi Minh City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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8. Truths of the Riverscape: Moving beyond command-and-control to geomorphologically informed nature-based river management.
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Brierley, Gary and Fryirs, Kirstie
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ENVIRONMENTAL degradation ,WATERSHEDS ,CLIMATE change ,FLUVIAL geomorphology ,EROSION ,PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation - Abstract
Truths of the Riverscape refer to the use of geomorphological principles to inform sustainable approaches to nature-based river management. Across much of the world a command-and-control philosophy continues to assert human authority over rivers. Tasked to treat rivers as stable and predictable entities, engineers have 'fixed rivers in place' and 'locked them in time'. Unsustainable outcomes ensue. Legacy effects and path dependencies of silenced and strangled (zombified) rivers are difficult and increasingly expensive to address. Nature fights back, and eventually it wins, with disastrous consequences for the environment, society, culture and the economy. The failure to meet the transformative potential of nature-based applications is expressed here as a disregard for 'Truths of the Riverscape'. The first truth emphasises the imperative to respect diversity, protecting and/or enhancing the distinctive values and attributes of each and every river. A cross-scalar (nested hierarchical) lens underpins practices that 'know your catchment'. The second truth envisages management practices that work with processes, interpreting the behaviour of each river. This recognises that erosion and deposition are intrinsic functions of a healthy living river—in appropriate places, at appropriate rates. This premise underpins the third truth, assess river condition, highlighting the importance of what to measure and what to measure against in approaches that address the causes rather than the symptoms of unexpected river adjustment. The fourth truth interprets evolutionary trajectory to determine what is realistically achievable in the management of a given river system. Analysis of whether the river sits on a degradation or recovery pathway (i.e., condition is deteriorating or improving), alongside assessment of catchment-specific recovery potential, is used to foresight river futures. Viewed collectively, Truths of the Riverscape provide a coherent platform to develop and apply proactive and precautionary catchment management plans that address concerns for biodiversity loss and climate change adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. The Role of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Sustainable Development
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Sobrevila, Claudia and Hickey, Valerie
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LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES ,TROPICAL FORESTS ,AMPHIBIANS ,NATIONAL ACCOUNTING ,ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ,WILD NATURE ,NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ,ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT ,BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION ,CARBON STORAGE ,EXTERNALITIES ,NATURAL FEATURES ,MARINE FISHERIES ,MARINE RESOURCES ,POLICY MAKERS ,WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ,HABITAT ,HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ,EMISSIONS ,NATURAL CAPITAL ,NEGATIVE IMPACTS ,NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS ,DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY ,BUFFER ZONES ,CASE STUDIES ,BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ,BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES ,GENETIC DIVERSITY ,GRASSLANDS ,LANDSCAPES ,ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION ,REDUCTION OF BIODIVERSITY ,PASTURE MANAGEMENT ,MITIGATION ,FOREST MANAGEMENT ,ADAPTATION STRATEGIES ,ECONOMIC VALUES ,EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION ,RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ,FOREST ECOSYSTEMS ,ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ,EXPLOITATION ,PREDATORS ,CARBON EMISSIONS ,EROSION CONTROL ,GENETIC MATERIAL ,BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS ,CORAL REEFS ,ENVIRONMENTAL ,INVASIVE SPECIES ,FOOD PRODUCTION ,ENDANGERED SPECIES ,LAND USES ,CROP PRODUCTION ,CARBON CYCLE ,BIODIVERSITY ,ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION ,SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ,BIODIVERSITY ECOSYSTEMS ,COASTAL ZONE ,BIODIVERSITY CRISIS ,BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT ,COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES ,PUBLIC GOOD ,CLIMATE CHANGE ,CATTLE ,BIOMASS ,CARBON ,FORESTS ,POLITICAL ECONOMY ,CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY ,FISH STOCK ,APPROACH TO BIODIVERSITY ,ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ,NATURAL HABITAT ,FOREST ,SUSTAINABLE GROWTH ,BENEFIT ANALYSIS ,FLOOD CONTROL ,LOCAL LIVELIHOODS ,BIODIVERSITY VALUATION ,CRITICAL HABITATS ,BIODIVERSITY LOSS ,RED LIST ,ILLEGAL TRADE ,SOIL EROSION ,ECONOMIC VALUE ,WILDLIFE ,MARINE ECOSYSTEMS ,RECYCLING ,GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ,ECONOMIC VALUATION ,ECONOMISTS ,FISHERS ,ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS ,CRITICAL NATURAL HABITATS ,FINANCIAL RESOURCES ,DAMS ,REDUCING EMISSIONS ,CROPS ,ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ,NATURAL AREAS ,FLOODS ,WATERSHED PROTECTION ,ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ,ECONOMICS ,LANDSCAPE ,CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY ,COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE ,ENVIRONMENTAL TERMS ,FRESHWATER ,HABITAT DESTRUCTION ,PUBLIC GOODS ,CLIMATE ,IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ,RIVERINE ,TREE SPECIES ,ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ,PRESENT VALUE ,RESERVOIRS ,LIVELIHOODS ,ECONOMIC GROWTH ,COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ,STORM PROTECTION ,CARBON SEQUESTRATION ,CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM ,ECOSYSTEMS ,ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT ,ECOSYSTEM HEALTH ,LAND MANAGEMENT ,POLLUTANTS ,NATURE ,RAINFALL ,POPULATION GROWTH ,AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ,TOURISM ,CONSTRUCTION ,RESOURCE ALLOCATION ,NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ,OIL ,AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY ,THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY ,PARKS ,DIETS ,ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ,FRAGMENTATION ,PRIVATE COSTS ,FRESH WATER ,NATURAL HABITATS ,MARINE RESERVES ,INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES ,CRITICAL ECOSYSTEMS ,COASTAL DEVELOPMENT ,LOSS OF SPECIES ,FARMS ,FISH ,POLLUTION ,TIMBER ,WATERSHED ,INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ,COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ,DRY SEASON ,BIODIVERSITY ACTIVITIES ,LOCAL COMMUNITIES ,WILDLIFE TRADE ,BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ,CLEAN WATER ,ECONOMIC BENEFITS ,GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY ,HOT SPOTS ,ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ,AGRICULTURE ,EROSION ,BUILDING MATERIALS ,UNSUSTAINABLE EXPLOITATION ,TRADEOFFS ,CARBON SINKS ,ECOSYSTEM GOODS ,WORLD FISHERIES ,CARBON DIOXIDE ,EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ,ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ,WETLANDS ,LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY ,ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION ,FOOD SECURITY ,HABITAT CONSERVATION ,MOUNTAINS ,WATERSHEDS ,ECONOMIC MODELS ,GRANT MONEY ,MANGROVES ,BIODIVERSITY FUNDS ,GREENHOUSE GASES ,BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION ,BIOLOGY ,NUTRIENT CYCLING ,ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ,ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE ,SUSTAINABLE USE ,CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY ,ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ,FORESTRY ,CONTINGENT VALUATION ,BIRDS ,ENDEMIC SPECIES ,NATURAL RESOURCES ,PROTECTED AREAS ,SOILS ,ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ,REPLENISHMENT ,CONSERVATION EFFORTS ,SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ,VEGETATIVE COVER ,ECOSYSTEM ,NATIONAL WILDLIFE ,DEFORESTATION ,DATA COLLECTION ,FISHERIES - Abstract
Biologically diverse ecosystems in countries served by the World Bank provide an array of valuable economic services. While the benefits of conserving ecosystems frequently outweigh the costs, conversion of these ecosystems to other uses occurs anyway, because many ecosystem benefits are of a public good nature, without markets that would reflect their real value. The objective of this paper was defined at a Concept review meeting held on December 2009 and is to increase the understanding on how biodiversity is incorporated in a development agency such as the World Bank Group (WBG) and how the WBG can enhance its role in biodiversity and ecosystems protection and management as a key ingredient to reach development sustainability. In order to define a reasonable strategy to prepare this paper, two approaches were used: the first was to carry out background and analytical studies, and the second was to consult with a wide range of stakeholders including Bank staff, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and indigenous groups. Biodiversity provides many instrumental benefits, from food and fuel to recreation. But even where biodiversity is not immediately instrumental, it represents global public goods that must be protected, if only for their potential value in the future. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been the mainstay of grants implemented by the Bank ($1.4 billion) for biodiversity conservation and management, but the Bank has itself committed $2 billion in loans and has leveraged $2.9 billion in co-financing.
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- 2010
10. Unraveling the Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus for Climate Change Adaptation in Iran: Urmia Lake Basin Case-Study.
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Nasrollahi, Hossein, Shirazizadeh, Rasool, Shirmohammadi, Reza, Pourali, Omid, Amidpour, Majid, and Milani, Dia
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WATERSHEDS ,CLIMATE change ,DRINKING water ,MULTIPLE criteria decision making ,SUSTAINABLE development ,INDUSTRIAL energy consumption ,WATER management - Abstract
A holistic approach to the management of water, energy, food, and the environment is required to both meet the socioeconomic demands of the future as well as sustainable development of these limited resources. The Urmia Lake Basin has faced environmental, social, and economic challenges in recent years, and this situation is likely to worsen under the impacts of climate change. For this study, an adaptability analysis of this region is proposed for the 2040 horizon year. Two models, the water evaluation and planning (WEAP (Stockholm Environmental Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)) and the low emissions analysis platform (LEAP (Stockholm Environmental Institute, Boston, MA, USA)), are integrated to simulate changes in water, energy, food, and the environment over these 20 years. Two climate scenarios and nine policy scenarios are combined to assess sustainable development using a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach. Results show that, through pursuing challenging goals in agricultural, potable water, energy, and industrial sectors, sustainable development will be achieved. In this scenario, the Lake Urmia water level will reach its ecological water level in 2040. However, social, technical, and political challenges are considered obstacles to implementing the goals of this scenario. In addition, industry growth and industry structure adjustment have the most impact on sustainable development achievement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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11. Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff Variation of the Intensive Phosphate Mined Huangbaihe River Basin, China.
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Bo, Huijuan, Dong, Xiaohua, Li, Zhonghua, Hu, Xiaonong, Reta, Gebrehiwet, Wei, Chong, and Su, Bob
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RUNOFF ,PHOSPHATE mining ,WATERSHEDS ,CLIMATE change ,EFFECT of human beings on climate change ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
Natural hydrological processes have been changed under the combined influences of climate change and intensive human activities in the Huangbaihe River Basin, where large-scale phosphate mining has been taking place. Therefore, evaluating the impact of climate change and intensive human activities on runoff variation and detecting the main driving factor leading to the variation are important for more efficient water resource management and more sustainable development of the regional economy. Despite numerous studies having been performed on this topic, little research focused on the impact of mining on runoff variation. The non-parametric Mann-Kendall (MK) trend test and accumulative anomaly methods were applied to identifying basic trends and change points of the hydro-meteorological elements over the period from 1978 to 2016. Then, the Soil Water and Assessment Tool (SWAT) and the Slope Changing Ratio of Accumulative Quantity (SCRAQ) were both used to quantify the contributions of climate change and anthropogenic activities on runoff variation. In this step, the runoff data were restored to their natural state before the construction of Xuanmiaoguan (XMG) dam. Due to the lack of locally observed evapotranspiration data, Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model and an empirical equation applied to obtain the evapotranspiration data. The results revealed that the change points are in 1985 and 2006. Therefore, the total period was divided into three periods, that is, the baseline period Ta (1978–1984), change period Tb (1985–2005) and change period Tc (2006–2016). Compared with the baseline period Ta, climate change dominates the runoff variation in the period Tb and is responsible for 60.5 and 74.4% of runoff variation, while human activities contribute the most to runoff variation for the period Tc (79.3 and 86.1%). Furthermore, an analysis of the underlying mechanism of underground phosphate mining indicates that mining can affect overland flow and baseflow simultaneously. This study can provide some information in determining the contributions of climate change and human activities in intensive phosphate mined basins and areas lack of evapotranspiration data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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12. Attribution Analysis of Hydrological Drought Risk Under Climate Change and Human Activities: A Case Study on Kuye River Basin in China.
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Zhang, Ming, Wang, Jinpeng, and Zhou, Runjuan
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WATERSHEDS ,RUNOFF ,CLIMATE change ,DROUGHTS ,SUSTAINABLE development ,ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology) - Abstract
This study conducted quantitative diagnosis on the impact of climate change and human activities on drought risk. Taking the Kuye river basin (KRB) in China as the research area, we used variation point diagnosis, simulation of precipitation and runoff, drought risk assessment, and attribution quantification. The results show that: (1) the annual runoff sequence of KRB changed significantly after 1979, which was consistent with the introduction of large-scale coal mining; (2) under the same drought recurrence period, the drought duration and severity in the human activity stage were significantly worse than in the natural and simulation stages, indicating that human activities changed the drought risk in this area; and (3) human activities had little impact on drought severity in the short duration and low recurrence period, but had a greater impact in the long duration and high recurrence period. These results provide scientific guidance for the management, prevention, and resistance of drought; and guarantee sustainable economic and social development in the KRB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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