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1 McCartney, Matthew; Dickens, Chris. 2021. Landscape regeneration and the role of water. In Filho, W. L.; Azul, A. M.; Brandli, L.; Salvia, A. L.; Wall, T. (Eds.). Clean water and sanitation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 10p. (Online first). (Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_139-2]
Landscape conservation ; Environmental restoration ; Water resources ; Freshwater ecosystems ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Forests ; Grasslands ; Wetlands ; Rivers ; Runoff ; Flooding ; Water quality ; Land degradation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050016)
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2 Gebru, T. A.; Brhane, G. K.; Gebremedhin, Y. G. 2021. Contributions of water harvesting technologies intervention in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, in ensuring households’ food security, Tigray in focus. Journal of Arid Environments, 185:104373. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104373]
Water harvesting ; Technology ; Semiarid zones ; Arid zones ; Rainwater harvesting ; Water use ; Household food security ; Climate change ; Drought ; Environmental restoration ; Farm inputs ; Communities ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Models / Ethiopia / Tigray / Kilete-Awlaelo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050144)
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Interventions of water harvesting technologies (WHTs) in drought-prone areas like the Tigray region (northern Ethiopia) is an option less strategy to alleviate food insecurity issues emanating from water scarcity. Hence, wide spectrums of WHTs were applied in Tigray Region in the last three decades. Thus, this study aimed to assess the WHTs and the subsequent contributions in ensuring households’ food security in Kilete-Awlaelo district of the Tigray Region. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through a household survey (n = 246), focus group discussion, key informants interview, and field observation, and subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis on the SPSS environment. The explanatory power of the WHTs to food security was determined using a regression model. The result revealed that 64.6% of the households applied WHTs while 35.4% not. Though a statistically significant positive relationship (p < 0.05) between the WHTs (predictor) and PCC acquisition as food security parameter (predictand) was observed, the magnitude was not strong enough where only 6.1% of WHTs users and 0.81% of non-users had achieved the average standard PCC requirement (2100 kcal) from their farm production. Hence, strengthening and expanding the functional domain of the WHTs fitting to the socio-economic, environmental, and biophysical context of the locality is profoundly indispensable.
3 Yin, C.; Zhao, W.; Cherubini, F.; Pereira, P. 2021. Integrate ecosystem services into socio-economic development to enhance achievement of sustainable development goals in the post-pandemic era. Geography and Sustainability, 2(1):68-73. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2021.03.002]
Ecosystem services ; Socioeconomic development ; Sustainable Development Goals ; COVID-19 ; Pandemics ; Environmental restoration ; Degradation ; Biodiversity
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050304)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666683921000092/pdfft?md5=ce2234d0421bd3446fc3dd7b59011946&pid=1-s2.0-S2666683921000092-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050304.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050304.pdf
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The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled and rolled back progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ecosystem services (ESs), defined as the contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, underpin the achievement of SDGs. To promote SDG achievement in post-pandemic era, we teased out the links between ESs and SDGs while examining the impact of COVID-19. We found that ESs benefited all SDGs, yet man-made pressures led to degradation of ecosystems and their services. There is broad consensus that the virus lurks in degraded ecosystems and generates spillover due to human interference. The pandemic and global lockdown/restriction disrupted the flow of ESs and altered human ESs demand, threatening the efforts for the SDGs. We suggested: 1) to study the association and traceability of ESs-SDGs under the pandemic; 2) to prioritize pressing issues such as health care, livelihood, and resource security and in the long run, we should promote human-nature harmony to achieve the SDGs; and 3) to enhance ESs and to promote the SDGs through local community efforts, ESs accounting, and ecosystem restoration. This paper provides insights into the importance of ESs to the SDGs and the ways to integrate ESs into socio-economic development to promote the SDG achievement after the pandemic.
4 He, Z.; Gong, K.; Zhang, Z.; Dong, W.; Feng, H.; Yu, Q.; He, J. 2022. What is the past, present, and future of scientific research on the Yellow River Basin? - A bibliometric analysis. Agricultural Water Management, 262:107404. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107404]
River basins ; Research ; Bibliometric analysis ; Environmental restoration ; Water resources ; Agricultural production ; Water use efficiency ; Vegetation ; Crop yield ; Greenhouse gas emissions ; Policies ; Soil erosion ; Plateaus / China / Yellow River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050884)
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China's Yellow River Basin (YRB) has large watershed but scarce water resources. More importantly, most parts of the YRB are located in semi-arid areas of Northwest China, where the ecology and environments are fragile. So, ecological restoration and agricultural production always are the key research topics of the YRB. However, the specific research interest of YRB changed over time and was always closely related to the implementation of government policies. Hence, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of YRB's research topics based on the methods of bibliometrics. The results showed that the number of papers about YRB’s research experienced a change from slowly increasing (1998–2010, 83 papers) to rapidly increasing (2011–2015, 128 papers), and then to exponentially rising (2016–2020, 369 papers). Secondly, the main research fields of the YRB included farming, crops, water, soil, environment, and etc. The journal of Agriculture Water Management had the highest global total citations and H-index, even local cited references were the highest among all of the reference papers about the YRB. Through summarizing the most cited papers and references, we found the most important research hotspots about the YRB were: the impacts of climate change and human activities on the amount of sediment in the YRB, the management of soil erosion and vegetation restoration in the YRB, and the relationship between crops and environment and management in the Loess Plateau of China. In addition, “Loess Plateau” was the most frequent keyword in the past ten years and the popularity of “climate change” rose sharply in the past five years. For YRB’s research in near future, how to effectively control carbon emissions, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and carbon surplus is becoming an important implication for YRB's agricultural production and ecological restoration in the future. In general, this research is expected to promote a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of the past, present and future of YRB’s research.
5 Leflaive, X.; Dominique, K.; Alaerts, G. J. (Eds.) 2022. Financing investment in water security: recent developments and perspectives. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. 381p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/C2019-0-03290-6]
Water security ; Financing ; Investment ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 6 Clean water and sanitation ; Water, sanitation and hygiene ; Water supply ; Water availability ; Equity ; Public finance ; Infrastructure ; Markets ; Political aspects ; Public-private partnerships ; Organizations ; River basin institutions ; Donors ; Funding ; Systemic action ; Strategies ; Climate change ; Floods ; Risk ; Wastewater treatment ; Sewage ; Water quality ; Environmental restoration ; Policies ; Projects ; Innovation ; Models ; Assets ; Case studies ; European Union / Africa / Asia / United States of America / China / Kenya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LEF, e-copy SF Record No: H051124)
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6 Ma, S.; Wang, L.-J.; Chu, L.; Jiang, J. 2023. Determination of ecological restoration patterns based on water security and food security in arid regions. Agricultural Water Management, 278:108171. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108171]
Environmental restoration ; Arid zones ; Food security ; Water security ; Water resources ; Agricultural development ; Ecosystem services ; Land use ; Vegetation ; Grasslands ; Forest land ; Cultivated land ; Precipitation ; Water yield / China / Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous / Korla / Yanqi Hui / Hejing / Heshuo / Bohu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051692)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377423000367/pdfft?md5=52bb5bb96e7fde141ed58e21ee9daeaf&pid=1-s2.0-S0378377423000367-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051692.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051692.pdf
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Food and water security are crucial for sustainable development in arid regions. However, land use/cover change often leads to trade-offs between grain yield and water-related ecosystem services (ESs), threatening food and water security. Therefore, how to optimize ecological restoration patterns to ensure grain yield and ESs is an important issue in arid regions. This study evaluated the changes in grain yield, water yield (WY), and water purification (WP) from 2000 to 2020 in the Bosten Lake region, China. Then, planting vegetation (PV) scenarios on different slopes and riparian vegetation buffer (RVB) scenarios with different widths were established to reveal the effects of different ecological restoration rules on ESs. Finally, the optimal ecological restoration scenario was determined based on ES efficiency and trade-offs/synergies. The results showed that grain yield increased (23.83 %) at the expense of WP and WY (- 14.76 % and - 0.57 %) from 2000 to 2020. The agricultural development scenario further reduced WP (- 7.99 %). Grain yield increased and WP and WY decreased under the PV scenarios. The RVB scenarios had the potential to improve ESs, guarantee grain yield and eliminate ES trade-offs. The effect of forest restoration on ESs was greater than that of grassland restoration, and the effect of RVB scenarios on ES efficiency was greater than that of PV scenarios. With the increase in the riparian buffer zone, the WY efficiency increased nonlinearly, and the WP efficiency decreased nonlinearly. The riparian grass buffer scenarios achieved higher WP at the expense of less WY, with the 200 m wide riparian grass buffer being the best ecological restoration scenario. The ecological benefits varied with the type, location, and scale of vegetation restoration. This study proposed a framework to determine the optimal ecological restoration pattern. The results can provide a scientific reference for water resource management decision-making in arid regions.
7 Moore, D.; Bach, V.; Finkbeiner, M.; Honkomp, T.; Ahn, H.; Sprenger, M.; Froese, L.; Gratzel, D. 2023. Offsetting environmental impacts beyond climate change: the circular ecosystem compensation approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 329:117068. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117068]
Climate change ; Environmental impact ; Ecosystem services ; Life cycle ; Water use ; Land use ; Environmental restoration ; Landscape ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051694)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147972202641X/pdfft?md5=8a8669556ed49968a776bb6201145ad6&pid=1-s2.0-S030147972202641X-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051694.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051694.pdf
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Since the Paris Agreement entered into force, climate neutrality and associated compensation schemes are even more on the agenda of politics and companies. Challenges of existing offsetting schemes include the rather theoretical saving scenario and the limited scope of considered impacts. To address some of these limitations, this paper proposes the Circular Ecosystem Compensation (CEC) approach based on monetization of LCA results and Ecosystem Valuation. CEC consists of six steps: i) carrying out a life cycle assessment, ii) reducing the environmental impacts, iii) determining environmental costs applying monetization methods, iv) deriving the environmental value based on restoration costs methods, v) implementing the ecological restoration of ecosystems and vi) monitoring of the renaturation measures. Thus, CEC allows to offset a broad set of environmental impacts beyond climate change (e.g., acidification, eutrophication, land use, water use) in a real ecosystem by renaturation of degraded ecosystems. Environmental burdens and environmental benefits are balanced on a monetary basis, as the renaturation measures are monetized and used to compensate the monetized LCA results, e.g., of a product, organization or individual. In a case study, the implementation of the approach is presented to show the practical implementation of the CEC. The challenges of CEC include the integration of further impact categories, the availability of up-to-date and reliable monetization methods, the asynchrony and time-lag of the compensation from an ecosystem and biodiversity perspective and the proof of cost-efficiency of the renaturation measures. It is further discussed, if CEC can be a step beyond “climate neutrality” towards “environmental neutrality”. The proposed approach should be further tested and is intended to foster progress in more comprehensive and robust offsetting of environmental impacts beyond climate change.
8 Saha, D.; Taron, Avinandan. 2023. Economic valuation of restoring and conserving ecosystem services of Indian Sundarbans. Environmental Development, 46:100846. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2023.100846]
Ecosystem services ; Forest conservation ; Environmental restoration ; Contingent valuation ; Economic value ; Willingness to pay ; Livelihoods ; Households ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Communities ; Participatory approaches ; Mangroves / India / West Bengal / Sundarbans / Gosaba
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051824)
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Conservation of forest ecosystem is fundamental for economic-ecological sustainability. Indian Sundarbans provide several ecosystem services, which needs sustainable exploitation since forest dwellers are heavily dependent on the forest. In our study, we attempt to estimate the option value of the forest dwellers through a non-market based valuation technique. Using contingent valuation, we seek to estimate the contribution forest fringe dwellers are ready to provide for restoration and conservation of the ecosystem services. Assuming a random utility framework, mean willingness to pay is estimated from the forest dwellers’ responses to the Dichotomous Choice bidding as well as open-ended bidding question using socio-economic variables which determine the value towards forest ecosystem services. The results indicate that forest dwellers have a positive option value and hence are willing to forgo present extraction of forest resources for future use. This value the forest dwellers associate with non-use ecosystem services indicates their willingness to participate in forest conservation. The study therefore concludes that institutions like Joint Forest Management should be promoted for efficient management of the mangrove in providing livelihood and ecosystem services.
9 Kuehne, L. M.; Dickens, Chris; Tickner, D.; Messager, M. L.; Olden, J. D.; O’Brien, G.; Lehner, B.; Eriyagama, Nishadi. 2023. The future of global river health monitoring. PLOS Water, 2(9):e0000101. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000101]
Rivers ; Environmental health ; Monitoring ; Frameworks ; Freshwater ecosystems ; Biodiversity ; Indicators ; Water quality ; Habitats ; Biology ; Hydrology ; Surface water ; Environmental restoration ; Agreements ; Policies ; Sustainable Development Goals
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052227)
https://journals.plos.org/water/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pwat.0000101&type=printable
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052227.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052227.pdf
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Rivers are the arteries of human civilisation and culture, providing essential goods and services that underpin water and food security, socio-economic development and climate resilience. They also support an extraordinary diversity of biological life. Human appropriation of land and water together with changes in climate have jointly driven rapid declines in river health and biodiversity worldwide, stimulating calls for an Emergency Recovery Plan for freshwater ecosystems. Yet freshwater ecosystems like rivers have been consistently under-represented within global agreements such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Even where such agreements acknowledge that river health is important, implementation is hampered by inadequate global-scale indicators and a lack of coherent monitoring efforts. Consequently, there is no reliable basis for tracking global trends in river health, assessing the impacts of international agreements on river ecosystems and guiding global investments in river management to priority issues or regions. We reviewed national and regional approaches for river health monitoring to develop a comprehensive set of scalable indicators that can support “top-down” global surveillance while also facilitating standardised “bottom-up” local monitoring efforts. We evaluate readiness of these indicators for implementation at a global scale, based on their current status and emerging improvements in underlying data sources and methodologies. We chart a road map that identifies data and technical priorities and opportunities to advance global river health monitoring such that an adequate monitoring framework could be in place and implemented by 2030, with the potential for substantial enhancement by 2050. Lastly, we present recommendations for coordinated action and investment by policy makers, research funders and scientists to develop and implement the framework to support conservation and restoration of river health globally.
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