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1 Oman. Ministry of Water Resources. 1995. The Sultanate of Oman International Conference on Water Resources Management in Arid Countries, Muscat, Oman, 12-16 March 1995. Volume 2: Nizwa/Bahla Sessions, display papers. Muscat, Oman: The Ministry. pp.369-779.
Hydrology ; Mathematical models ; Satellite surveys ; Simulation models ; Aquifers ; Water table ; GIS ; Salt water intrusion ; Stochastic process ; Watersheds ; Water quality ; Wastewater ; Water reuse ; Effluents ; Irrigation water ; Conjunctive use ; Water transfer ; Groundwater development ; Rainfall-runoff relationships / Middle East / Oman / Saudi Arabia / Kuwait / Egypt / Western Asia / Mexico / Libya / USA / Tunisia / Syria / Sudan / Ghana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G728 OMA Record No: H016660)
2 Wagner, W. 1995. Groundwater with low salinity in the dry regions of Western Asia, hydrochemical aspects. In Oman. Ministry of Water Resources, The Sultanate of Oman International Conference on Water Resources Management in Arid Countries, Muscat, Oman, 12-16 March 1995. Volume 2: Nizwa/Bahla Sessions, display papers. Muscat, Oman: The Ministry. pp.443-449.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G728 OMA Record No: H016720)
3 Halpert, M. S.; Bell, G. D.; Kousky, V. E.; Ropelewski, C. F. (Eds.) 1994. Fifth annual climate assessment 1993. Camp Springs, MD, USA: Climate Analysis Center. 111p.
Climate ; Forecasting ; Drought ; Rain ; Flood water ; Natural disasters ; Precipitation / USA / Canada / Africa / Australia / India / Europe / Western Asia / California
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 551.5 G000 HAL Record No: H026452)
4 Jurdi, M.; Abdulrazzak, M. J.; Basma, S. 2003. The introduction of water resources management programs in Western Asia. Water Policy, 5(3):257-268.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H033238)
5 Salam, P. A.; Shrestha, S.; Pandey, Vishnu Prasad; Anal, A. K. (Eds.) 2017. Water-energy-food nexus: principles and practices. NJ, USA: Wiley; Washington, USA: American Geophysical Union (AGU). 252p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Energy resources ; Food resources ; Food security ; Nexus ; Development policy ; Policy making ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Developing countries ; International cooperation ; International waters ; River basins ; Rural areas ; Climate change ; Carbon footprint ; Crop production ; Rice ; Cultivation ; Research institutions ; Riverbanks ; Filtration ; Case studies / South Asia / South Africa / Western Asia / USA / Southeast Nepal / Tanzania / Uganda / Rwanda / Burundi / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Kenya / Ethiopia / Eritrea / South Sudan / Republic of the Sudan / Egypt / Bangladesh / California / Nile Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048731)
6 Dawoud, M. A. H. 2017. Water, energy, and food security nexus in the West Asian Region. In Salam, P. A.; Shrestha, S.; Pandey, V. P.; Anal, A. K. (Eds.). Water-energy-food nexus: principles and practices. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley. pp.163-180.
Water resources ; Water availability ; Water demand ; Water policy ; Food security ; Food supply ; Food production ; Energy resources ; Nexus ; Poverty ; Sustainable development ; Farmland ; Supply chain ; Economic aspects ; Rural population ; Urban population ; Renewable resources ; Climate change ; Aquifers ; Land degradation ; Legal aspects / Western Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048746)
7 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.
8 UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP); UN-Water. 2020. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020: water and climate change. Paris, France: UNESCO. 219p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Climate change adaptation ; Climate change mitigation ; Resilience ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Water availability ; Infrastructure ; Ecosystems ; Extreme weather events ; Vulnerability ; Disaster risk reduction ; Early warning systems ; Forecasting ; Water stress ; Water quality ; Water use ; Water supply ; Water scarcity ; Groundwater ; Wastewater treatment ; Technological changes ; Innovation ; Energy generation ; Nexus ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Sanitation ; Gender ; Human settlements ; Urban development ; Food security ; Agriculture ; Greenhouse gas emissions ; Land use ; Policies ; International agreements ; Water governance ; Strategies ; Decision making ; Financing / Africa South of Sahara / Europe / Central Asia / Latin America / Caribbean / Asia and the Pacific / Western Asia / North Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049600)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049600.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049600.pdf
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9 Shah, S. A. R.; Naqvi, S. A. A.; Nasreen, S.; Abbas, N. 2021. Associating drivers of economic development with environmental degradation: fresh evidence from western Asia and North African Region. Ecological Indicators, 126:107638. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107638]
Environmental degradation ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Ecological footprint ; Carbon ; Emission ; Biomass ; Energy consumption ; Renewable energy ; Sustainability ; Policies / Western Asia / North Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050403)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21003034/pdfft?md5=2592df6880af1c6b1c3bba5d78f9b259&pid=1-s2.0-S1470160X21003034-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050403.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050403.pdf
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This study quantifies the Environment Kuznets curve's validity against two different environment proxies, the ecological footprint and carbon emissions for selected seventeen Western Asia and North African countries over the period 1980 to 2017. The study employs the Interactive Fixed Effect (IFE) and Dynamic Common Correlated Effect (D-CCE) to quantify the long-run association among variables in a multiplicative framework. The empirical outcomes indicate that the inverted U-shaped hypothesis is not valid for carbon emission; however, it holds for ecological footprint. The results show that energy intensity and financial development are environment-friendly indicators. Likewise, biomass energy consumption exposes a negative and statistically significant influence on proxies of environmental degradation. Causality findings reveal bidirectional causal links between economic development and its square to emission, biomass energy consumption, and financial development; also, bidirectional causality has been observed from energy intensity to biomass energy in the first model. Moreover, for the second model, causality has been seen from biomass energy consumption, economic development, and its square to ecological footprint, keeping the same two-way relationship among explanatory variables as in the first model. Policymakers should focus on the policy options to increase energy efficiency to get a clean environment.
10 Jones-Crank, L. J.; Lu, J.; Orlove, B. 2024. Bridging the gap between the water-energy-food nexus and compound risks. Environmental Research Letters, 19(2):024004. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad1ad0]
Risk assessment ; Water resources ; Water scarcity ; Surface water ; Energy ; Food security ; Nexus approaches ; Climate change ; Hydroelectric power generation ; Policies ; Governance ; Stakeholders ; Case studies / South East Asia / Central Asia / South Asia / Western Asia / Turkiye / Iraq / Syrian Arab Republic / India / Nepal / Pakistan / Bhutan / Bangladesh / Myanmar / China / Laos / Vietnam / Thailand / Cambodia / Tigris-Euphrates River Basin / Hindu Kush / Mekong River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052538)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad1ad0/pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052538.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052538.pdf
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The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is a concept and approach to examine the interactions of water, energy, and food resources. Similarly, compound risks are a set of risk types that consider multiple connected factors that amplify risks. While both concepts are promoted as approaches to move beyond silos and address complex problems in environmental governance, there has been limited exploration of their overlap. Our study integrates these two approaches for more holistic assessment and management of resources in the context of climate risks. We examine the connections between the WEF nexus and compound risk in two ways. First, we review the literature to identify previous conceptual connections between the WEF nexus and compound risks. Second, we review seven case studies with WEF nexus interactions and compound risks to identify how the two approaches might be considered in practice. Our results demonstrate that there is limited, though not non-existent, integration of the two concepts in both the theoretical literature and in the case studies. The four of the seven cases that do show some level of connection in practice demonstrate opportunities for greater integration in the future, such as leveraging the water sector as a bridge to address WEF nexus and compound risk challenges together.
11 Nandintsetseg, B.; Chang, J.; Sen, O. L.; Reyer, C. P. O.; Kong, K.; Yetemen, O.; Ciais, P.; Davaadalai, J. 2024. Future drought risk and adaptation of pastoralism in Eurasian rangelands. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7:82. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00624-2]
Drought ; Risk analysis ; Risk management ; Rangelands ; Grazing lands ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Climate change ; Ecosystems ; Models ; Vulnerability ; Precipitation ; Vegetation ; Livelihoods ; Soil moisture ; Satellite observation / Western Asia / East Asia / Central Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052752)
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Drought risk threatens pastoralism in rangelands, which are already under strain from climatic and socioeconomic changes. We examine the future drought risk (2031–2060 and 2071–2100) to rangeland productivity across Eurasia (West, Central, and East Asia) using a well-tested process-based ecosystem model and projections of five climate models under three shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenarios of low (SSP1-2.6), medium (SSP3-7.0), and high (SSP5-8.5) warming relative to 1985–2014. We employ a probabilistic approach, with risk defined as the expected productivity loss induced by the probability of hazardous droughts (determined by a precipitation-based index) and vulnerability (the response of rangeland productivity to hazardous droughts). Drought risk and vulnerability are projected to increase in magnitude and area across Eurasian rangelands, with greater increases in 2071–2100 under the medium and high warming scenarios than in 2031–2060. Increasing risk in West Asia is caused by longer and more intense droughts and vulnerability, whereas higher risk in Central and East Asia is mainly associated with increased vulnerability, indicating overall risk is higher where vulnerability increases. These findings suggest that future droughts may exacerbate livestock feed shortages and negatively impact pastoralism. The results have practical implications for rangeland management that should be adapted to the ecological and socioeconomic contexts of the different countries in the region. Existing traditional ecological knowledge can be promoted to adapt to drought risk and embedded in a wider set of adaptation measures involving management improvements, social transformations, capacity building, and policy reforms addressing multiple stakeholders.
12 Tabe-Ojong, M. P. Jr.; Salama, Y.; Abay, K. A.; Abdelaziz, F.; Zaccari, C.; Akramkhanov, A.; Menza, G.; Anarbekov, Oyture. 2024. Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: opportunities and constraints in the CWANA Region. Global Food Security, 41:100763. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100763]
Digital innovation ; Climate change ; Market access ; Climate-smart agriculture ; Weather ; Energy ; Early warning systems ; Climate resilience ; Policies / Central Asia / Western Asia / North Africa / Egypt / Morocco / Uzbekistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052840)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000257/pdfft?md5=91ed73929ff0e86a08f9e73111090ddb&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000257-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052840.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052840.pdf
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There is growing optimism about the potential of digital innovations to support climate action and transform agricultural markets. We review and characterize the landscape of digital innovations in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. We highlight major success stories associated with the potential of digital innovations to facilitate rural market transformation and support climate action, including adaptation and mitigation. Our desk and landscape review identifies various digital innovations used in Egypt, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. We then create a typology of digital innovations based on seven broad service categorizations: weather and climate; agricultural finance; energy and early warning systems; data and crowdsourcing; market information and market place; extension and advisory information; and supply chain coordination. Three technical and validation workshops supplement this review. Our review shows that digital innovations have the potential to build resilience to climate change and increase market access, but their adoption remains low and varying across contexts. Significant heterogeneity and differences exist across these countries, possibly due to different institutional and regulatory frameworks that guide demand and capacity. We identify several supply and demand-side constraints facing the digital ecosystem in the region. There is the existence of a significant digital divide fueled by gender, literacy gaps, and related socioeconomic and psychosocial constraints. A seeming disconnect also exists between pilots and scale-ups, as most existing digital applications are unsuccessful in expanding beyond the pilot phase.
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