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The agricultural groundwater revolution: opportunities and threats to development

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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 2007-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Groundwater.

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Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of our understanding of groundwater depletion suggests that although the problem is global, solutions must be adapted to specific regional requirements at the aquifer scale, and that the world's largest freshwater resource is groundwater.
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China's water scarcity

TL;DR: Improving water resource management is a long-term task requiring a holistic approach with constant effort and should be the government's top priority to address the water scarcity issue.
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Climate change, water and food security.

TL;DR: The impacts of climate change on the global hydrological cycle are expected to vary the patterns of demand and supply of water for agriculture -the dominant use of freshwater as discussed by the authors, and the implications for local and national food security.
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Global Groundwater? Issues and Solutions

TL;DR: A review of the recent literature on the geographic and temporal dimensions of groundwater use and the range of technological and institutional approaches that have been applied in attempts at its management can be found in this paper.
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Footprints of water and energy inputs in food production - global perspectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize information from pre eminent publications such as Nature, Science, PNAS and scholarly journals to assess the water and energy footprints of global food production and show that the footprints are significant, both locally, national and globally and have consequences for global food security and ecosystem health and productivity.
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment and that the concept of vulnerability is central to an understanding of disasters and their prevention or mitigation, exploring the extent and ways in which people gain access to resources.
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Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems

TL;DR: The phrase that combines the two, “sustainable development,” thus refers to the goal of fostering adaptive capabilities and creating opportunities, which is not an oxymoron but a term that describes a logical partnership.
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Increased salinization of fresh water in the northeastern United States

TL;DR: If salinity were to continue to increase at its present rate due to changes in impervious surface coverage and current management practices, many surface waters in the northeastern United States would not be potable for human consumption and would become toxic to freshwater life within the next century.