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1 Pearce, F.; Crivelli, A. J. 1994. Characteristics of Mediterranean wetlands. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 90p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.1)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 PEA Record No: H037342)
2 Rosecchi, E.; Charpentier, B. 1995. Aquaculture in lagoon and marine environments. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 94p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.3)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 ROS Record No: H037343)
3 Perennou, C.; Sadoul, N.; Pineau, O.; Johnson, A. R.; Hafner, H. 1966. Management of nest sites for colonial waterbirds. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 114p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.4)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 PER Record No: H037344)
4 Pearce, F. 1996. Wetlands and waters resources. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 82p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.5)
Wetlands ; Water distribution ; Reservoirs ; Water transfer ; Conflict ; Ecosystems ; Water use / Mediterranean Region
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 PEA Record No: H037345)
5 Mesléard, F.; Perennou, C. 1996. Aquatic emergent vegetation, ecology and management. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 86p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.6)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 MES Record No: H037346)
6 Maitland, P. S.; Crivelli, A. J. 1996. Conservation of freshwater fish. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 94p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.7)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 639.3 GG20 MAI Record No: H037347)
7 Grillas, P.; Roché, J. 1997. Vegetation of temporary marshes. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 86p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.8)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GGG20 GRI Record No: H037348)
8 Sadoul, N.; Walmsley, J. G.; Charpentier, B. 1998. Salinas and nature conservation. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 95p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.9)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GG20 SAD Record No: H037349)
9 Acreman, M. 2000. Wetlands and hydrology. Arles, France: Tour du Valat. 109p. (Conservation of Mediterranean wetlands – MedWet no.10)
Wetlands ; Hydrology ; Ecosystems ; Flood plains ; Flood control ; Groundwater ; Water balance / Mediterranean Region
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 GGG20 ACR Record No: H037350)
10 Garrido, A.; Iglesias, A. 2007. Groundwater’s role in managing water scarcity in the Mediterranean region. In Ragone, S. (Ed.). The Global Importance of Groundwater in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Groundwater Sustainability, Alicante, Spain, 24-27 January 2006. Westerville, OH, USA: National Groundwater Association. pp.189-203.
Water scarcity ; Environmental effects ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Artificial recharge ; Water pollution ; Irrigation water ; Climate change / Mediterranean Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9104 G000 RAG Record No: H040488)
11 ICID. 2008. Water saving in agriculture. New Delhi, India: ICID. 91p. + 1CD.
Water management ; Water conservation ; Water demand ; Irrigation management ; Irrigated farming ; Irrigation programs ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation systems ; Microirrigation ; Technology ; Rice ; Drainage ; Impact assessment / Asia / Mediterranean Region / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.2 G000 ICI Record No: H044376)
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12 Sagardoy, J. A. 2008. Promoting gender mainstreaming in water resources management in the Mediterranean Region: the GEWAMED project. Grid: IPTRID Network Magazine, 28:16-18.
Gender ; Development projects ; Capacity building ; Water management ; Water resources / Mediterranean Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044712)
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13 Brouziyne, Y.; Abouabdillah, A.; Chehbouni, A.; Hanich, L.; Bergaoui, Karim; McDonnell, Rachael; Benaabidate, L. 2020. Assessing hydrological vulnerability to future droughts in a Mediterranean watershed: combined indices-based and distributed modeling approaches. Water, 12(9):2333. (Special issue: Modeling Global Change Impacts on Water Resources: Selected Papers from the 2019/2020 SWAT International Conferences) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092333]
Climate change ; Drought ; Vulnerability ; Hydrological factors ; Weather forecasting ; Modelling ; Water resources ; Watersheds ; Water yield ; Meteorological factors ; Risk management ; Precipitation ; Rain ; Temperature ; Land use ; Runoff ; Evapotranspiration / Mediterranean Region / Morocco / Bouregreg Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049879)
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Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of future droughts is essential for effective water resource management, especially in the Mediterranean region where water resources are expected to be scarcer in the future. In this study, we combined meteorological and hydrological drought indices with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to predict future dry years during two periods (2035–2050and 2085–2100) in a typical Mediterranean watershed in Northern Morocco, namely, Bouregreg watershed. The developed methodology was then used to evaluate drought impact on annual water yields and to identify the most vulnerable sub-basins within the study watershed. Two emission scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) of a downscaled global circulation model were used to force the calibrated SWAT model. Results indicated that Bouregreg watershed will experience several dry years with higher frequency especially at the end of current century. Significant decreases of annual water yields were simulated during dry years, ranging from -45.6% to -76.7% under RCP4.5, and from -66.7% to -95.6% under RCP8.5, compared to baseline. Overall, hydrologic systems in sub-basins under the ocean or high-altitude influence appear to be more resilient to drought. The combination of drought indices and the semi-distributed model offer a comprehensive tool to understand potential future droughts in Bouregreg watershed.
14 Gorguner, M.; Kavvas, M. L. 2020. Modeling impacts of future climate change on reservoir storages and irrigation water demands in a Mediterranean Basin. Science of the Total Environment, 748:141246. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141246]
Climate change ; Forecasting ; Reservoir storage ; Irrigation water ; Water demand ; Water balance ; Models ; Water availability ; Evapotranspiration ; Irrigation systems ; Water resources ; Water storage ; Watersheds ; Precipitation ; Irrigated land / Mediterranean region / Turkey / Gediz Basin / Demirkopru Reservoir
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050065)
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Water storage requirements in the Mediterranean region vary in time and are strongly affected by the local geography and climate conditions. The objective of this study is to assess the implications of climate change on the water balance of an agricultural reservoir in a Mediterranean-climate basin in Turkey throughout the 21st century. A monthly dynamic water balance model is developed to simulate the historical and future water availability in the reservoir. The model is driven by the fine-resolution dynamically downscaled climate data from four GCMs from the CMIP5 archive, namely CCSM4, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2-ES, and MIROC5, under two different representative concentration pathway scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), and the hydrologic data projected under the same scenarios. The reservoir outflows, including the reservoir evaporation and downstream irrigation water demands, are also modeled using the projected climate variables. The net irrigation water requirement of the crops in the irrigation system, seasonal evapotranspiration rates, and reservoir evaporation rates are estimated based on the Penman-Monteith Evapotranspiration method (FAO-56 Method). The study investigates whether the future water supply in the reservoir will be sufficient to meet the future irrigation water demands for the years from 2017 to 2100. The results show that under all eight modeled climate change projections, statistically significant increasing trends for the annual irrigation water demands are expected throughout the 21st century. Moreover, higher evapotranspiration rates are predicted under the ensemble average of the RCP8.5 projections, compared to those of the RCP4.5 projections. Ultimately, seven out of eight projections projected insufficient reservoir water levels during the 21st century, especially during the irrigation seasons when higher water demands are expected. These impacts indicate the importance of sustainable water resources management in the region to provide irrigation water from reservoirs, and to sustain agricultural productivity under projected water limitations due to climate change.
15 Chamine, H. I.; Barbieri, M.; Kisi, O.; Chen, M.; Merkel, B. J. (Eds.) 2019. Advances in sustainable and environmental hydrology, hydrogeology, hydrochemistry and water resources. Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Hammamet, Tunisia, 12-15 November 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 449p. (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation: IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01572-5]
Hydrology ; Hydrogeology ; Water resources ; Water management ; Sustainable development ; Water reuse ; Wastewater irrigation ; Wastewater treatment ; Water balance ; Water footprint ; Water governance ; Groundwater table ; Water levels ; Groundwater recharge ; Alluvial aquifers ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Contamination ; Surface water ; Evapotranspiration ; Soil water content ; Drinking water ; Chemicophysical properties ; Climate change ; Drought ; Flooding ; Precipitation ; Forecasting ; Rainfall-runoff relationships ; Snow cover ; Geographical information systems ; Remote sensing ; Satellite observation ; Landsat ; Stream flow ; Saltwater intrusion ; Coastal area ; Salinity ; Farmers ; Fertilizers ; Dams ; Malaria ; Sediment ; Catchment areas ; Wetlands ; Rivers ; Watersheds ; Semiarid zones ; Urbanization ; Reservoirs ; Environment ; Case studies ; Models / Mediterranean region / Russian Federation / Spain / Portugal / France / Cambodia / Indonesia / Tunisia / Algeria / Iraq / Vietnam / Nigeria / Turkey / Morocco / Sudan / Kuwait / Ethiopia / Malaysia / Senegal / Ghana / Oman / Iran Islamic Republic / Egypt / Palestine / South Africa / Bangladesh / India / Pakistan / Baribo Basin / Medjerda River / Sebaou River / Seyhan Basin / Great Kabylia / Boukadir Wadi / Sidi Bel Abbes Basin / Gilgit River Basin / Moscow / Chennai / Telangana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H049482)
16 Allan, T.; Bromwich, B.; Keulertz, M.; Colman, A. (Eds.) 2019. The Oxford handbook of food, water and society. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. 926p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190669799.001.0001]
Food systems ; Water systems ; Society ; Food security ; Water security ; Food supply chains ; Value chains ; Water resources ; Water management ; Virtual water ; Water footprint ; Agricultural water use ; Agricultural trade ; Conservation agriculture ; Irrigation management ; Water scarcity ; Natural capital ; Political aspects ; Policies ; Municipal water ; Water demand ; Pollution prevention ; Agricultural production ; Transformation ; Wheat ; Coffee industry ; Rice ; Oil palms ; Meat ; Beef ; Pricing ; Pesticides ; Farmers ; Water user associations ; Gender ; Feminization ; Household consumption ; Diet ; Hunger ; Malnutrition ; Obesity ; Poverty ; Sustainability ; Technology ; Subsidies ; Ecosystem services ; Infrastructure ; Drought ; Flooding ; Soil erosion ; Semiarid zones ; Arid zones ; Drylands ; WTO ; Modelling / Africa / Mediterranean Region / North America / Western Asia / United Kingdom / England / Wales / USA / Brazil / Australia / Jordan / Israel / South Africa / California / Cape Town / Sonoran Desert
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H049524)
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Society’s greatest use of water is in food production; a fact that puts farmers centre stage in global environmental management. Current management of food value chains, however, is not well set up to enable farmers to undertake their dual role of feeding a growing population and stewarding natural resources. This book considers the interconnected issues of real water in the environment and “virtual water” in food value chains and investigates how society influences both fields. This perspective draws out considerable challenges for food security and for environmental stewardship in the context of ongoing global change. The book also discusses these issues by region and with global overviews of selected commodities. Innovation relevant to the kind of change needed for the current food system to meet future challenges is reviewed in light of the findings of the regional and thematic analysis.
17 Duarte, R.; Pinilla, V.; Serrano, A. 2021. The globalization of Mediterranean agriculture: a long-term view of the impact on water consumption. Ecological Economics, 183:106964. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106964]
Agricultural trade ; Globalization ; Water use ; Virtual water ; Water footprint ; Exports ; Sustainability ; Irrigation water ; Water resources ; Water stress ; Water productivity ; Infrastructure / Mediterranean Region / Spain
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050272)
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The countries in the Mediterranean basin increasingly specialized in Mediterranean agricultural products for exports throughout the twentieth century. In this context, the main objective of this paper is to quantify and discuss on the impacts that this growing Mediterranean exports specialization generated on water resources over the last century. To that aim, we focus on the water embodied in Mediterranean exports, the trends followed by dams' construction and the area equipped for irrigation as well as on the evolution of blue water stress.
Our findings point at an intense expansion of Mediterranean virtual water exports between 1910 and 2010 that went along with the construction of water infrastructure. It enabled water-intensive crops to be grown in arid regions, but also, exacerbated blue water stress. We also find important regional divergences, highlighting the role of Spain as a super exporter of Mediterranean crops. Finally, we observe that the trends and patterns of trade flows and the subsequent pressures on water resources are highly conditioned by political, economic and technological developments.
Our findings point at an intense expansion of Mediterranean virtual water exports between 1910 and 2010 that went along with the construction of water infrastructure. It enabled water-intensive crops to be grown in arid regions, but also, exacerbated blue water stress. We also find important regional divergences, highlighting the role of Spain as a super exporter of Mediterranean crops. Finally, we observe that the trends and patterns of trade flows and the subsequent pressures on water resources are highly conditioned by political, economic and technological developments.
18 Vogel, J.; Paton, E.; Aich, V.; Bronstert, A. 2021. Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin. Weather and Climate Extremes, 32:100312. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100312]
Drought ; Warm season ; Climate change ; Extreme weather events ; Risk management ; Precipitation ; Temperature ; Evapotranspiration ; Soil moisture ; Ecosystems / Mediterranean Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050407)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094721000104/pdfft?md5=07be5503dc78279ff88e661bf3858b02&pid=1-s2.0-S2212094721000104-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050407.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050407.pdf
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The co-occurrence of warm spells and droughts can lead to detrimental socio-economic and ecological impacts, largely surpassing the impacts of either warm spells or droughts alone. We quantify changes in the number of compound warm spells and droughts from 1979 to 2018 in the Mediterranean Basin using the ERA5 data set. We analyse two types of compound events: 1) warm season compound events, which are extreme in absolute terms in the warm season from May to October and 2) year-round deseasonalised compound events, which are extreme in relative terms respective to the time of the year. The number of compound events increases significantly and especially warm spells are increasing strongly – with an annual growth rates of 3.9 (3.5) % for warm season (deseasonalised) compound events and 4.6 (4.4) % for warm spells –, whereas for droughts the change is more ambiguous depending on the applied definition. Therefore, the rise in the number of compound events is primarily driven by temperature changes and not the lack of precipitation. The months July and August show the highest increases in warm season compound events, whereas the highest increases of deseasonalised compound events occur in spring and early summer. This increase in deseasonalised compound events can potentially have a significant impact on the functioning of Mediterranean ecosystems as this is the peak phase of ecosystem productivity and a vital phenophase.
19 Garau, E.; Torralba, M.; Pueyo-Ros, J. 2021. What is a river basin? assessing and understanding the sociocultural mental constructs of landscapes from different stakeholders across a river basin. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214:104192. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104192]
River basins ; Sociocultural environment ; Stakeholders ; Participatory approaches ; Biodiversity ; Ecosystem services ; Landscape ; Policies ; Economic aspects ; Conflicts ; Models / Mediterranean Region / Spain / Muga River Basin / Fluvia River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050542)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204621001559/pdfft?md5=5dac0c95cb3fe809aa9b3f9c490054cf&pid=1-s2.0-S0169204621001559-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050542.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050542.pdf
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In the Mediterranean basin, climate models predict future scenarios characterized by more frequently uncertain hydrological services. European policies increasingly promote new models of water management based on river basins as socioecological systems and participatory strategies to ensure better inclusiveness and representativeness of all local actors. Practice has demonstrated the value of stakeholder engagement for achieving more productive and beneficial outcomes of decision-making in landscape management and conservation policies. However, sometimes participatory processes do not lead to effective results. One reason could be related to different understandings of concepts. There is, in fact, still limited research assessing whether the concepts or technical terms used in those processes are understood in the same way by the participants. Therefore, our study aims to explore the mental constructs of stakeholders through a combination of semi-structured interviews and hand-made drawings, using the concept of the river basin as a study concept. We found differences in the relationships between stakeholders’ ways of drawing and describing the river basin starting from its mental constructs. The results also showed that the way stakeholders construct ideas and views related to the landscape influenced some factors that stakeholders used to express them, such as the drawing shape, drawing length, emotions and associated values used in the descriptions. Likewise, mental constructs were influenced by stakeholders’ profiles and their working position. This study highlights that a better understanding of stakeholders' perceptions and their understandings could be essential if we are to achieve more effective and inclusive participatory processes in complex and dynamic socioecological contexts.
20 Khorchani, M.; Nadal-Romero, E.; Lasanta, T.; Tague, C. 2022. Carbon sequestration and water yield tradeoffs following restoration of abandoned agricultural lands in Mediterranean mountains. Environmental Research, 207:112203. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112203]
Carbon sequestration ; Water yield ; Farmland ; Mountains ; Land management ; Afforestation ; Land cover ; Vegetation ; Ecosystem services ; Stream flow ; Water availability ; Water use efficiency ; Climate change ; Evaporation / Mediterranean Region / Spain / Central Spanish Pyrenees / Arnas Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050927)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935121015048/pdfft?md5=6684d0315e513dd2b7ccc7c8aecc9a46&pid=1-s2.0-S0013935121015048-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050927.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050927.pdf
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Abandoned cropland areas have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation through natural revegetation and afforestation programs. These programs increase above and belowground carbon sequestration by expanding forest cover. However, this potential to mitigate climate change often involves tradeoffs between carbon sequestration and water availability. Particularly in a water limited environments such as the Mediterranean region, any loss of recharge to groundwater or streamflow can have critical societal consequences. In this study, we used an ecohydrologic model, Regional Hydro-Ecological Simulation System (RHESSys), to quantify these tradeoffs for land management plans in abandoned cropland areas in Mediterranean mountains. Changes to Net Ecosystem Production (NEP), water yield and Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) under different land management and climate scenarios were estimated for Arnás, a catchment with similar geology, vegetation and climate to many of the locations targeted for land abandonment restoration in the Spanish Pyrenees. Results showed significant changes to both carbon and water fluxes related to land management, while changes related to a warming scenario were not significant. Afforestation scenarios showed the highest average annual carbon sequestration rates (112 g C·m-2·yr-1) but were also associated with the lowest water yield (runoff coefficient of 26%) and water use efficiency (1.4 g C·mm-1) compared to natural revegetation (-27 g C·m-2·yr-1, 50%, 1.7 g C·mm-1 respectively). Under both restoration scenarios, results showed that the catchment ecosystem is a carbon sink during mid-February to July, coinciding with peak monthly transpiration and WUE, while during the rest of the year the catchment ecosystem is a carbon source. These results contribute to understanding carbon and water tradeoffs in Mediterranean mountains and can help adapt restoration plans to address both carbon sequestration and water management objectives.
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