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1 Vörösmarty, C. J.; Green, P.; Salisbury, J.; Lammers, R. B. 2000. Global water resources: Vulnerability from climate change and population growth. Science, 289:284-288.
Water resources ; Climate ; Population growth ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water stress ; Water demand ; Environmental degradation
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6121 Record No: H030981)
2 Syvitski, J. P. M.; Vörösmarty, C. J.; Kettner, A. J.; Green, P.. 2005. Impact of humans on the flux of terrestrial sediment to the global coastal ocean. Science, 308:376-380.
Rivers ; Reservoirs ; Catchment areas ; Sedimentation ; Sedimentary materials ; Water balance ; Models
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7420 Record No: H037601)
3 Salas, W.; Boles, S.; Li, C.; Yeluripati, J. B.; Xiao, X.; Frolking, S.; Green, P.. 2007. Mapping and modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddies with satellite radar observations and the DNDC biogeochemical model. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 17(3):319-329.
Rice ; Decision support tools ; Mapping ; Models ; GIS ; Greenhouse gases ; Methane ; Nitrous oxide / India / Andhra Pradesh / Vijayawada
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 7887 Record No: H040099)
4 Vorosmarty, C. J.; McIntyre, P. B.; Gessner, M. O.; Dudgeon, D.; Prusevich, A.; Green, P.; Glidden, S.; Bunn, S. E.; Sullivan, C. A.; Liermann, C. R.; Davies, P. M. 2010. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature, 467:555-561. [doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1038/nature09440]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043790)
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Protecting the world’s freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, fromglobal to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a spatial framework that quantifies multiple stressors and accounts for downstream impacts. We find that nearly 80% of the world’s population is exposed to high levels of threat to water security. Massive investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset high stressor levels without remedying their underlying causes, whereas less wealthy nations remain vulnerable. A similar lack of precautionary investment jeopardizes biodiversity, with habitats associated with 65% of continental discharge classified as moderately to highly threatened. The cumulative threat framework offers a tool for prioritizing policy and management responses to this crisis, and underscores the necessity of limiting threats at their source instead of through costly remediation of symptoms in order to assure global water security for both humans and freshwater biodiversity.
5 Vorosmarty, C. J.; McIntyre, P. B.; Gessner, M. O.; Dudgeon, D.; Prusevich, A.; Green, P.; Glidden, S.; Bunn, S. E.; Sullivan, C. A.; Reidy Liermann, C. 2010. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature, 467:555-562. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09549]
Water security ; Rivers ; Biodiversity ; Ecosystems ; Environmental effects ; Frameworks ; Water resources development ; Maps
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044244)
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Protecting the world’s freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, fromglobal to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a spatial framework that quantifies multiple stressors and accounts for downstream impacts. We find that nearly 80% of the world’s population is exposed to high levels of threat to water security. Massive investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset high stressor levels without remedying their underlying causes, whereas less wealthy nations remain vulnerable. A similar lack of precautionary investment jeopardizes biodiversity, with habitats associated with 65% of continental discharge classified as moderately to highly threatened. The cumulative threat framework offers a tool for prioritizing policy and management responses to this crisis, and underscores the necessity of limiting threats at their source instead of through costly remediation of symptoms in order to assure global water security for both humans and freshwater biodiversity.
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