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Water Management Challenges in an Increasingly Warm and Crowded Planet
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Water Management Challenges in an Increasingly Warm and Crowded Planet

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 19025

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Prof. Dr. Alon Tal

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Chair, Department of Public Policy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
Interests: water management, sustainability, water quality, policy, demography
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Dr. Amanda Lounsbury

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Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Interests: water treatment; inorganic aqueous contaminants; nanometal oxides

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Water highlights applied aspects of the challenges associated with climate change, population pressures, and water. The rise in temperatures and the number of people consuming water has created unprecedented challenges for water managers on the planet. This Special Issue will focus on the many associated issues surrounding drinking water, irrigation, and recreation. Articles should focus on a range of issues and solutions from technologies, to policies, to sociology, to economics.

Prof. Alon Tal
Dr. Amanda Lounsbury
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • water
  • climate change
  • technology
  • economics
  • policy
  • population
  • demogrpahy
  • adaptation
  • mitigation

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Nexus between Ecological Conservation and Socio-Economic Development and its Dynamics: Insights from a Case in China
by Jian Wu, Yanan Guo and Jingbo Zhou
Water 2020, 12(3), 663; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030663 - 01 Mar 2020
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Achieving sustainable socio-economic development in areas designated for ecological conservation is a challenge for many developing countries. The nexus between ecological conservation and socio-economic development is particularly complex in these areas for the reason that most of them are located in poor regions [...] Read more.
Achieving sustainable socio-economic development in areas designated for ecological conservation is a challenge for many developing countries. The nexus between ecological conservation and socio-economic development is particularly complex in these areas for the reason that most of them are located in poor regions and their resource utilization is constrained by ecological conservation practices. A conceptual framework was proposed for examining the nexus between ecological conservation and economic development in a social-ecological system to explain the pathways and mechanisms of influence between the ecosystem and the social system. We chose the Lashihai watershed in Yunnan Province, China, as the case study area to explore whether a positive feedback loop between ecological conservation and socio-economic development has been formed, as well as how to promote the positive evolution of socio-economic and ecological status. The ecosystem and socio-economic system in the Lashihai watershed closely interact and form a dynamic system with a positive evolutionary trend. If negative factors, such as an uneven distribution of income and new population pressures, are not appropriately managed, they are likely to break the positive feedback loop and trap the system in a negative feedback loop. We discuss the main factors that contribute to the interactions between ecological conservation and livelihoods, and develop policy recommendations for governments in other countries and regions to promote conservation and better livelihoods in conjunction. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Management Challenges in an Increasingly Warm and Crowded Planet)
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Accounting for Economic Factors in Socio-Hydrology: Optimization under Uncertainty and Climate Change
by Luis M. Abadie, Anil Markandya and Marc B. Neumann
Water 2019, 11(10), 2073; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102073 - 04 Oct 2019
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This paper reframes the socio-hydrology analysis as an optimization problem. To achieve this, we first develop a valuation scheme to estimate net benefits of development in a flood plain, consisting of benefits obtained from land and housing, less the costs of flood management [...] Read more.
This paper reframes the socio-hydrology analysis as an optimization problem. To achieve this, we first develop a valuation scheme to estimate net benefits of development in a flood plain, consisting of benefits obtained from land and housing, less the costs of flood management and flood damage. Then we look for an optimal safety factor for the levee heightening strategy within the ‘Technosociety’ scenario for a given time series of future flood events. This is further extended to finding an optimal strategy in the case of uncertainty concerning flood timings and intensities. We suggest an approach for both stationary and non-stationary evolution of flood dynamics and examine how the levee heightening strategy is affected by the magnitude of climate change. We find that the preferred management option depends strongly on the value of the land services the area provides. Full article
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Was Drought Really the Trigger Behind the Syrian Civil War in 2011?
by Arnon Karnieli, Alexandra Shtein, Natalya Panov, Noam Weisbrod and Alon Tal
Water 2019, 11(8), 1564; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11081564 - 29 Jul 2019
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The role played by unsustainable resource management in initiating international conflicts is well documented. The Syrian Civil War, commencing in March 2011, presents such a case. The prevailing opinion links the unrest with sequential droughts occurring from 2007–2010. Our research, however, reveals that [...] Read more.
The role played by unsustainable resource management in initiating international conflicts is well documented. The Syrian Civil War, commencing in March 2011, presents such a case. The prevailing opinion links the unrest with sequential droughts occurring from 2007–2010. Our research, however, reveals that the winter-rainfed agricultural conditions before 2011, as detected by satellite-derived vegetation indices, were similar and even better for Syrian farmers than for those of their Turkish counterparts across the border. Concurrently, summer-irrigated crops, heavily dependent on Euphrates River water originating from Turkey, notably declined in Syria while flourishing in Turkey. These findings are firmly supported by other independent and validated datasets, including long-term cross-border discharge, the water level in Syrian and Turkish reservoirs, and transborder groundwater flow. We conclude that the Turkish policy of unilaterally diverting the Euphrates water was the main reason for the agricultural collapse and subsequent instability in Syria in 2011. The obvious inference is that while prolonged drought exacerbated conditions, unsustainable anthropogenic water management in Turkey was the proximate cause behind the Syrian uprising. Full article
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