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Non-Structural Flood Management in European Rural Mountain Areas—Are Scientists Supporting Implementation?

Hydrology, 2021
Mountain areas are highly exposed to flood risks. The latter are increasing in the context of climate change, urbanization, and land use changes. Non-structural approaches such as nature-based solutions can provide opportunities to reduce the risks of ...
Felix Conitz, Aude Zingraff-Hamed, Gerd Lupp, Stephan Pauleit   +3 more
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Human-water interface in hydrological modeling: Current status and future directions [PDF]

, 2017
Over the last decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes at an unprecedented scale.
Bierkens, M.F.P., de Roo, A., Dirmeyer, P.a., Famiglietti, J.S., Hanasaki, N., Konar, M., Liu, J., Müller Schmied, H., Oki, T., Pokhrel, Y., Sivapalan, M., Troy, T.J., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., van Emmerik, T., Van Huijgevoort, M.J.H., Van Lanen, H.A.J., Vörösmarty, C.J., Wada, Y., Wanders, N., Wheater, H.   +19 more
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Conceptualizing the effectiveness of flood risk information with a socio-hydrological model: A case study in Lower Kelani River Basin, Sri Lanka

Frontiers in Water, 2023
In rapidly changing human-flood systems, dynamic models can assist with system thinking, policy-making, and response. Previous research has shown that flood memory is important for better responses during disasters.
Chamal Perera, Shinichiro Nakamura
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The potential role of socio-hydrological models for participatory water governance in Burkina Faso [PDF]

, 2020
Halting and reversing water quality degradation is a major global concern. The variety of needs and priorities placed on water resources make the issue of water pollution multifaceted and complex.
Barendrecht, Marlies, Carr, Gemma, Debevec, Liza   +2 more
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Socio-hydrologic drivers of the pendulum swing between agricultural development and environmental health: A case study from Murrumbidgee River basin, Australia [PDF]

, 2013
This paper presents a case study centred on the Murrumbidgee River basin in eastern Australia. It illustrates the dynamics of the balance between water extraction and use for food production, and efforts to mitigate and reverse consequent degradation of ...
Chanan, A, Kandasamy, J, Sivabalan, P, Sivapalan, M, Sounthararajah, D, Vigneswaran, S   +5 more
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A transdisciplinary account of water research [PDF]

, 2016
TK acknowledges funding by the German Excellence Initiative through IRI THESys. GC acknowledges funding from the Austrian Science Funds (FWF) as part of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems (DK-plus W1219-N22).Water research is ...
Bruns, Antje, Carr, Gemma, Krueger, Tobias, Lane, Stuart, Maynard, Carly Marie, Mueller, Eva Nora   +5 more
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Hydro-Meteorological Incident and Disaster Response in Sri Lanka. Case Study: 2016 May Rain Events

Earth, 2021
This paper investigates hydro-meteorological hazards faced by Sri Lanka, a lower-middle-income island country in Asia. It provides a case study of a major hydro-meteorological disaster incident that resulted in one of the largest landslides in the ...
Hiran I. Tillekaratne, Induka Werellagama, Chandrasekara M. Madduma-Bandara, Thalakumbure W. M. T. W. Bandara, Amila Abeynayaka   +4 more
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Compounding Impacts of Human-Induced Water Stress and Climate Change on Water Availability [PDF]

, 2017
The terrestrial phase of the water cycle can be seriously impacted by water management and human water use behavior (e.g., reservoir operation, and irrigation withdrawals).
AghaKouchak, A., Mehran, A., Nakhjiri, N., Peel, M.C., Phillips, T.J., Ravalico, J.K., Stewardson, M.J., Wada, Y.   +7 more
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Small-Scale Irrigation Self-Governance in a Mountain Region of Tajikistan [PDF]

, 2018
In the Pamirs of Tajikistan, meeting food needs is an ongoing struggle. One of the challenges to local agricultural production is water scarcity. This paper presents a case study of a small-scale, self-organized irrigation governance system in a village ...
Dörre, Andrei, Goibnazarov, Chorshanbe
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Socio-hydrological frameworks for adaptive governance: addressing climate uncertainty in South Asia

Frontiers in Water
In an era of growing climate change impacts, there is an increasing need to grasp the complex connection between human society and hydrological systems.
Anjal Prakash, Ritwick George, Anamika Barua   +2 more
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