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1 Markandya, A.. 2006. Water quality issues in developing countries. In Lopez, R.; Toman, M. A. (Eds.), Economic development and environmental sustainability: New policy options. Oxford, UK: OUP. pp.307-344.
Domestic water ; Drinking water ; Water quality ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Public health ; Risks ; Households ; Case studies / India / Philippines / Latvia / Ganges / Davao River / Gauja River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G000 LOP Record No: H039004)
2 Pearce, D.; Barbier, E.; Markandya, A.; Barrett, S.; Turner, R. K.; Swanson, T. 1991. Blueprint 2: greening the world economy. London, UK: Earthscan; London, UK: London Environmental Economics Centre. 232p.
Environmental economics ; Ethics ; Environmental degradation ; Population growth ; Deforestation ; Aid ; Financing ; Biodiversity conservation ; Ozone depletion ; Global warming
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.72 G000 PEA Record No: H044408)
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3 Mani, M.; Bandyopadhyay, S.; Chonabayashi, S.; Markandya, A.; Mosier, T. 2018. South Asia’s hotspots: the impact of temperature and precipitation changes on living standards. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 101p. (South Asia Development Matters) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1155-5]
Climate change ; Living standards ; Extreme weather events ; Temperature ; Precipitation ; Forecasting ; Resilience ; Greenhouse gases ; Carbon ; Water availability ; Monsoon climate ; Gross national product ; Policies ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Indicators ; Models ; Uncertainty / South Asia / Bangladesh / India / Sri Lanka / Pakistan / Nepal / Afghanistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049071)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/201031531468051189/pdf/128323-PUB-PUBLIC-DOC-DATE-7-9-18.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049071.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049071.pdf
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South Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change. Average temperatures have been rising throughout the region, and rainfall has become more erratic. These changes are projected to continue accruing over the coming decades. South Asia’s Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards is the first book of its kind to provide granular spatial analysis of the long-term impacts of changes in average temperature and precipitation on one of the world’s poorest regions. South Asia’s Hotspots finds that higher temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will reduce living standards in communities across South Asia—locations that the book terms hotspots. More than 800 million people in South Asia currently live in communities that are projected to become hotspots under a carbon-intensive climate scenario. Global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will reduce the severity of hotspots. Diverse and robust development is the best overall prescription to help people in hotspots. The book also suggests actions tailored to each country in the region such as increasing employment in non-agricultural sectors, improving educational attainment, and expanding access to electricity that would offset the declines in living standards associated with hotspots. South Asia’s Hotspots complements previous studies detailing the impacts of sea-level rise and extreme events on the people of South Asia. Together, these bodies of work create a sound analytical basis for investing in targeted policies and actions to build climate resilience throughout the region.
4 Foudi , S.; McCartney, Matthew; Markandya, A.; Pascual, U. 2023. The impact of multipurpose dams on the values of nature’s contributions to people under a water-energy-food nexus framing. Ecological Economics, 206:107758. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107758]
Dams ; Reservoirs ; Water resources ; Energy ; Food systems ; Nexus approaches ; Natural environment ; Ecosystem services ; Equity ; River basins ; Economic value ; Floods ; Hydrology ; Hydroelectric power generation ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Communities / Kenya / Tana River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051684)
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The paper proposes a probabilistic approach to the assessment of the impacts of multipurpose dams. It is framed around the notion of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) in the setting of the Water-Energy-Food nexus. The socio-ecological context of the Tana River Basin in Kenya and the construction of two multipurpose dams are used to highlight co-produced positive and negative NCP under alternative river regimes. These regimes produce both damaging floods that ought to be controlled and beneficial floods that ought to be allowed. But the river regime that results from hydropower generation and flood risk reduction may not be the one that is most conducive to food and feed-based NCP. The approach relates the economic value of river-based NCP coproduction to the probability of flooding to derive the expected annual value of NCP and a NCP value-probability curve. The relation between NCP flows and flood characteristics is tested and estimated based on regression analyses with historical data. Results indicate that the net economic value of key NCP associated with multipurpose dams for local people and associated social equity effects largely depend on the frequency of flood events and on the way impacts are distributed across communities, economic sectors and time.
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