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Showing papers in "Water Security in 2020"



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TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between flood risk management and flood resilience is discussed, and three aspects are discussed: the definition of resilience, its measurement methods and also its possible implementation and embedding in flood risk risk management.

40 citations


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TL;DR: This paper uses methods based on decision making under deep uncertainty to establish a methodology to design for the resilience of water systems and generates water system design options that provide resilience capabilities at least cost and specify the optimal choices for persistence, adaptability and transformability for performance over a wide range of possible futures.

32 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a review of two well-established yet disconnected fields of research and practice, and establish an agenda at their intersection: (i) incentive-based approaches to water allocation and management and (ii) theory-of-change approaches to strategic development and impact evaluation.

29 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified 39 articles published between 2010 and 2019 which document drivers and barriers of water reuse for 54 urban areas in 20 countries and identified a nexus of place-based factors combined with economic, regulatory and political alignment more likely foster systemic change in water systems.

28 citations


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TL;DR: This article reviewed the nature, range, and extent of literature on drinking water and human health outcomes in the context of climate change in the Circumpolar North and used a systematic process to identify and synthesize articles.

26 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the current knowledge on the state of three essential climate variables (ECV) of the Central Asian cryosphere: snow, glaciers and permafrost in a context of future water security.

23 citations



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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a variation of the QUAlitative Structural Approach for Ranking (QUASAR) method to 121 studies of documented intra-and inter-basin transfers of water within 40 territories and basins around the world, using five attributes of impact that were found to be associated with the transfers.

21 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed international peer-reviewed scientific studies based on satellite remote sensing (RS) products and methods addressing potential improvements of irrigation water and land management in the Aral Sea Basin (ASB).

21 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the effect of global warming on the formation of new lakes and changing risk conditions related to decreasing stability of surrounding frozen peaks at local scales of source regions, shifts in seasonality and higher interannual variability of runoff which may affect water supply at regional to continental scales including the surrounding lowlands, and rising sea level at global scale.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an example of the freshwater resilience planning and investment prioritization process for the water supply of Mexico City and the surrounding supply systems, and show how to plan for freshwater resilience in urban hydrological systems.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the systematic review and content analysis methods to investigate 115 peer-reviewed and grey literature publications on stream daylighting and reveal temporal shifts in the multi-/inter-disciplinary clustering patterns of the identified nine themes and 53 sub-themes.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the central considerations behind these models, highlighting the importance of water infrastructure, the foundations of a theory of decision-making, and the handling of uncertainty.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review the scientific progress in seasonal forecasting and evaluate the potential for a scientifically-informed water management in Central Asia, and discuss the requirements of stakeholders and reveal major obstacles for a sustainable knowledge transfer.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of factors and processes that influence the implementation and effectiveness of private precaution in mitigating flood risk, underpinning it with highlights from international examples.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the role of powerful actors in water governance in Central Asia and show how powerful actors either resist reforms or use them to secure or enhance their positions.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted fieldwork in four cities to ask for perspectives on what enables cities to cope with water related shocks and stresses, based on analysis of interview responses and focus group discussions, they propose key characteristics of human, societal and institutional capacity necessary for urban water resilience.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a research project spanning over 15 years, dealing with territorial resilience to flooding and present a global retrospective view on how research on the concept of resilience began with a primary focus on critical infrastructure resilience networks.

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Chandni Singh, Amir Bazaz, Debora Ley, James D. Ford1, Aromar Revi 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the multidimensional feasibility of adaptation options in the water sector at the global scale using two examples: strategies to improve irrigation efficiency in rural areas (e.g. drip irrigation, watershed management), and sustainable water management in urban areas.

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TL;DR: A more holistic valuing of rivers' services coupled with policies and mechanisms to maintain and restore those values will require a more holistic approach as mentioned in this paper, which will require the communication of river values into terms and numbers that matter to key audiences and the assembly of coalitions.

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TL;DR: This paper introduces the water security community to key water issues as they relate to the large-scale mining sector, and argues that mining companies have historically adopted an internally oriented definition of water risks.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the quantity of water needed for different hygiene and physiologic needs and whether that water is required in the home and could be provided through a decentralized water and sanitation system or if it could be used at an alternate location.

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TL;DR: The authors provide a brief description of the usual anatomy and characteristics of flood risk models in the industry, glimpses of their historical evolution, and a perspective on the most common types of diagnostics used to scrutinize them.

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TL;DR: The 1987 National Pollution Discharge Elimination Elimination System (NPDES) initiated a regulatory framework that not only considered human wellbeing but ecological health, thereby instigating a challenge to anthropocentrism.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a tentative framework that delineates the connection between winter climate variability, shorter lake ice season, and related environmental and social impacts with focus on winter thermal thresholds in lake ice is developed.