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1 Chaturvedi, M. C. 2012. India's waters: advances in development and management. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. 222p.
Water management ; Water resources development ; Groundwater resources ; Water availability ; Water requirements ; Water demand ; Water balance ; History ; Climate change ; Flooding ; Droughts ; Precipitation ; Evapotranspiration ; River basins ; Development policy ; Environmental management ; Drainage systems / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 CHA Record No: H045857)
2 Zhang, P.; Jeong, J.-H.; Yoon, J.-H.; Kim, H.; Wang, S.-Y. S.; Linderholm, H. W.; Fang, K.; Wu, X.; Chen, D. 2020. Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point. Science, 370(6520):1095-1099. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb3368]
Climate change ; Arid climate ; Warm season ; Soil moisture ; Droughts ; Air temperature ; Trends ; Observation / East Asia / Mongolia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050100)
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Unprecedented heatwave-drought concurrences in the past two decades have been reported over inner East Asia. Tree-ring–based reconstructions of heatwaves and soil moisture for the past 260 years reveal an abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over this region. Enhanced land-atmosphere coupling, associated with persistent soil moisture deficit, appears to intensify surface warming and anticyclonic circulation anomalies, fueling heatwaves that exacerbate soil drying. Our analysis demonstrates that the magnitude of the warm and dry anomalies compounding in the recent two decades is unprecedented over the quarter of a millennium, and this trend clearly exceeds the natural variability range. The “hockey stick”–like change warns that the warming and drying concurrence is potentially irreversible beyond a tipping point in the East Asian climate system.
3 Sammie, B.; Mupfiga, E.; Mwadzingeni, L.; Chitata, T.; Mugandani, R. 2021. A gendered lens to self-evaluated and actual climate change knowledge. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 11(1):65-75. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-020-00641-6]
Climate change adaptation ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Vulnerability ; Trends ; Temperature ; Droughts ; Rain ; Risk ; Households ; Rural areas / Zimbabwe / Matabeleland / Beitbridge
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050225)
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Gender-sensitive and gender-responsive approaches are important to increase adaptive capacity in a changing climate given the gendered nature of exposure levels to climate shocks. Nonetheless, knowledge and perception of the public to climate change influence behavioural intention to adapt. While literature is replete with public perception and adaptation strategies to climate change, there is a dearth of information exploring the influence of gender on climate change knowledge. This paper employs quantitative and qualitative data to examine the influence of gender on knowledge in climate trends in Beitbridge Rural District, Zimbabwe, using questionnaire surveys. This survey tool consisted of demographic questions on gender and other variables. Our results indicate that compared to women, actual knowledge of trends in selected variables of climate change was higher among men. Furthermore, male respondents had higher self-evaluated knowledge on climate trends compared to female participants. We recommend gender disaggregated data in the vulnerability and adaptation assessments and the education, training and awareness sections of the National Communications to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change.
4 Sanga, U.; Koli, U. 2023. Mental models of sustainable groundwater management among farmers in semi-arid regions of Maharashtra, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 21:100904. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2023.100904]
Sustainability ; Groundwater management ; Farmers ; Models ; Agroclimatic zones ; Semiarid zones ; Water scarcity ; Droughts ; Groundwater extraction ; Conflicts ; Water supply ; Water conservation ; Trickle irrigation ; Non-governmental organizations ; Water policies / India / Maharashtra
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051691)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352801X23000048/pdfft?md5=5f431b6d091599e5d20007197eca0583&pid=1-s2.0-S2352801X23000048-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051691.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051691.pdf
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Mental models are the dynamic, internal cognitive representations of people's interaction with the world. Such models can be used to gain insights into how humans structure their beliefs and actions about environmental issues. This research paper aims to understand the mental models of sustainable groundwater management among farmers in semi-arid regions of Maharashtra, India. Using a mixed method approach of qualitative interviews and systems mapping, we assess how past experiences with drought and water scarcity have influenced farmers' beliefs, perceptions, and actions and develop mental models that highlight the dynamic processes that guide farmer actions regarding groundwater use and management. We identify policy triggers that can nudge farmers toward sustainable groundwater management in the future. Our results reveal three key insights: i) Farmers who experience higher water scarcity have a higher desire for groundwater conservation and higher consciousness towards future groundwater sustainability, ii) Farmers' actions towards either increased groundwater extraction or conservation are shaped by complex social, environmental, and institutional dynamics rather than self-interested individual will, and iii) Supply-driven water policies and initiatives can lead to maladaptive outcomes such as an increase in groundwater extraction in the long run. Current water policies need a transformative shift from focusing on short-term groundwater supply to those that facilitate long-term sustainable groundwater management by influencing the norms, values, and behavior toward groundwater conservation. Future interventions that allow and encourage collective mobilization, enhanced ownership and participation, adequate training, financial resources, and decentralized management structures with enhanced accountability are likely to be more effective in developing long-term solutions for sustainable groundwater management.
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