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1 Singh, C.. 1991. Water rights and principles of water resources management. New Delhi, India: Indian Law Institute. xv, 158p. (Water project series)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 346.0432 G635 SIN Record No: H020355)
2 Singh, C.. (Ed.) 1992. Water law in India. New Delhi, India: Indian Law Institute. xviv, 389p. (Water project series)
Water law ; Legislation ; Water rights ; Water resource management ; Legal aspects ; History / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 346.0432 G635 SIN Record No: H020356)
3 Singh, C.. 1992. Water rights in India. In Singh, C. (Ed.), Water law in India. New Delhi, India: Indian Law Institute. pp.8-31.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 346.0432 G635 SIN Record No: H020357)
4 Singh, C.. 1995. Research agenda for groundwater law in India. In Moench, M. (Ed.), Groundwater law: The growing debate. Ahmedabad, India: VIKSAT. pp.174-180.
Groundwater ; Water law ; Water rights ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Pollution control / India / Gujarat / Maharashtra
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G635 MOE Record No: H027691)
5 Singh, C.; Iyer, S.; New, M. G.; Few, R.; Kuchimanchi, B.; Segnon, A. C.; Morchain, D. 2021. Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice. Climate and Development, 16p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1964937]
Climate change adaptation ; Monitoring and evaluation ; Transformation ; Decision making ; Policies ; Agreements ; Governance ; Vulnerability ; Resilience ; Livelihoods ; Sustainability ; Ecosystem services ; Semiarid zones / India / Namibia / Kenya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050688)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17565529.2021.1964937
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050688.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050688.pdf
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The Paris Agreement articulates a global goal on adaptation, which aims to ensure an ‘adequate adaptation response’ to the ‘global temperature goal’, and requires countries to report progress through periodic global stocktakes. However, there remain conceptual and methodological challenges in defining an adaptation goal and mixed evidence on what effective adaptation looks like and how it can be enabled. In this review, we demonstrate how different normative views on adaptation outcomes, arising from different epistemological and disciplinary entry points, can lead to very different interpretations of adaptation effectiveness. We argue that how effectiveness is framed will significantly impact adaptation implementation and outcomes. This, furthermore, represents a way of exercising influence in adaptation decision-making. Eleven principles of effective adaptation are distilled as a way to pluralize guidance in international processes such as the Global Stocktake as well as national and sub-national exercises on tracking and monitoring adaptation.
6 Ulibarri, N.; Ajibade, I.; Galappaththi, E. K.; Joe, E. T.; Lesnikowski, A.; Mach, K. J.; Musah-Surugu, J. I.; Alverio, G. N.; Segnon, A. C.; Siders, A. R.; Sotnik, G.; Campbell, D.; Chalastani, V. I.; Jagannathan, K.; Khavhagali, V.; Reckien, D.; Shang, Y.; Singh, C.; Zommers, Z.; The Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative Team. 2022. A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation. Climate Policy, 22(1):77-96. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.2002251]
Climate change adaptation ; Policies ; Assessment ; Government ; Civil society organizations ; Equity ; Vulnerability ; Communities ; Capacity development ; Sustainable development ; Infrastructure ; Economic aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050919)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14693062.2021.2002251?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050919.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050919.pdf
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Governments, businesses, and civil society organizations have diverse policy tools to incentivize adaptation. Policy tools can shape the type and extent of adaptation, and therefore, function either as barriers or enablers for reducing risk and vulnerability. Using data from a systematic review of academic literature on global adaptation responses to climate change (n = 1549 peer-reviewed articles), we categorize the types of policy tools used to shape climate adaptation. We apply qualitative and quantitative analyses to assess the contexts where particular tools are used, along with equity implications for groups targeted by the tools, and the tools’ relationships with transformational adaptation indicators such as the depth, scope, and speed of adaptation. We find diverse types of tools documented across sectors and geographic regions. We also identify a mismatch between the tools that consider equity and those that yield more transformational adaptations. Direct regulations, plans, and capacity building are associated with higher depth and scope of adaptation (thus transformational adaptation), while economic instruments, information provisioning, and networks are not; the latter tools, however, are more likely to target marginalized groups in their design and implementation. We identify multiple research gaps, including a need to assess instrument mixes rather than single tools and to assess adaptations that result from policy implementation.
7 Bharucha, Z. P.; Attwood, S.; Badiger, S.; Balamatti, A.; Bawden, R.; Bentley, J. W.; Chander, M.; Davies, L.; Dixon, H.; Dixon, J.; D’Souza, M.; Flora, C. B.; Green, M.; Joshi, D.; Komarek, A. M.; McDermid, L. R.; Mathijs, E.; Rola, A. C.; Patnaik, S.; Pattanayak, S.; Pingali, P.; Prasad, V. P. V.; Rabbinge, R.; Ramanjaneyulu, G. V.; Ravindranath, N. H.; Sage, C.; Saha, A.; Salvatore, C.; Saxena, L. P.; Singh, C.; Smith, P.; Srinidhi, A.; Sugam, R.; Thomas, R.; Uphoff, N.; Pretty, J. 2021. The top 100 questions for the sustainable intensification of agriculture in India’s rainfed drylands. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 19(2):106-127. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1830530]
Sustainable intensification ; Rainfed agriculture ; Dryland farming ; Agricultural development ; Policies ; Farming systems ; Agricultural production ; Livestock ; Climate change ; Resilience ; Ecosystem services ; Natural resources ; Water resources ; Watersheds / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051091)
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India has the largest area of rainfed dryland agriculture globally, with a variety of distinct types of farming systems producing most of its coarse cereals, food legumes, minor millets, and large amounts of livestock. All these are vital for national and regional food and nutritional security. Yet, the rainfed drylands have been relatively neglected in mainstream agricultural and rural development policy. As a result, significant social-ecological challenges overlap in these landscapes: endemic poverty, malnutrition and land degradation. Sustainable intensification of dryland agriculture is essential for helping to address these challenges, particularly in the context of accelerating climate change. In this paper, we present 100 questions that point to the most important knowledge gaps and research priorities. If addressed, these would facilitate and inform sustainable intensification in Indian rainfed drylands, leading to improved agricultural production and enhanced ecosystem services. The horizon scanning method used to produce these questions brought together experts and practitioners involved in a broad range of disciplines and sectors. This exercise resulted in a consolidated set of questions covering the agricultural drylands, organized into 13 themes. Together, these represent a collective programme for new cross- and multi-disciplinary research on sustainable intensification in the Indian rainfed drylands.
8 Wang-Erlandsson, L.; Tobian, A.; van der Ent, R. J.; Fetzer, I.; te Wierik, S.; Porkka, M.; Staal, A.; Jaramillo, F.; Dahlmann, H.; Singh, C.; Greve, P.; Gerten, D.; Keys, P. W.; Gleeson, T.; Cornell, S. E.; Steffen, W.; Bai, X.; Rockstrom, J. 2022. A planetary boundary for green water. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3(6):380-392. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00287-8]
Freshwater ; Water availability ; Climate change ; Resilience ; Risk ; Soil moisture ; Precipitation ; Vegetation ; Evaporation ; Hydroclimatology ; Biogeochemical cycle ; Carbon cycle ; Ecosystems ; Governance ; Deforestation ; Drylands
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051114)
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Green water — terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture — is fundamental to Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental to planetary scales. However, green water lacks explicit consideration in the existing planetary boundaries framework that demarcates a global safe operating space for humanity. In this Perspective, we propose a green water planetary boundary and estimate its current status. The green water planetary boundary can be represented by the percentage of ice-free land area on which root-zone soil moisture deviates from Holocene variability for any month of the year. Provisional estimates of departures from Holocene-like conditions, alongside evidence of widespread deterioration in Earth system functioning, indicate that the green water planetary boundary is already transgressed. Moving forward, research needs to address and account for the role of root-zone soil moisture for Earth system resilience in view of ecohydrological, hydroclimatic and sociohydrological interactions.
9 Martin, M. A.; Boakye, E. A.; Boyd, E.; Broadgate, W.; Bustamante, M.; Canadell, J. G.; Carr, E. R.; Chu, E. K.; Cleugh, H.; Csevar, S.; Daoudy, M.; de Bremond, A.; Dhimal, M.; Ebi, K. L.; Edwards, C.; Fuss, S.; Girardin, M. P.; Glavovic, B.; Hebden, S.; Hirota, M.; Hsu, H.-H.; Huq, S.; Ingold, K.; Johannessen, O. M.; Kameyama, Y.; Kumarasinghe, N.; Langendijk, G. S.; Lissner, T.; Lwasa, S.; Machalaba, C.; Maltais, A.; Mathai, M. V.; Mbow, C.; McNamara, K. E.; Mukherji, Aditi; Murray, V.; Mysiak, J.; Okereke, C.; Ospina, D.; Otto, F.; Prakash, A.; Pulhin, J. M.; Raju, E.; Redman, A.; Rigaud, K. K.; Rockstrom, J.; Roy, J.; Schipper, E. L. F.; Schlosser, P.; Schulz, K. A.; Schumacher, K.; Schwarz, L.; Scown, M.; Sedova, B.; Siddiqui, T. A.; Singh, C.; Sioen, G. B.; Stammer, D.; Steinert, N. J.; Suk, S.; Sutton, R.; Thalheimer, L.; van Aalst, M.; van der Geest, K.; Zhao, Z. J. 2022. Ten new insights in climate science 2022. Global Sustainability, 5(e20):1-20. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2022.17]
Climate change adaptation ; Climate change mitigation ; Vulnerability ; Climate resilience ; Global warming ; Emission ; Sustainable land use ; Private sector ; Water ; Energy ; Foods ; Ecology ; Biodiversity ; Economics ; Policies ; Governance ; Health ; Finance ; Gender ; Inclusion ; Social aspects ; Political aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051580)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62C90D59C9F9890791B64762EAA06B8D/S2059479822000175a.pdf/ten-new-insights-in-climate-science-2022.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051580.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051580.pdf
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Non-technical summary:
We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Technical summary:
We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Social media summary:
Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.
We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Technical summary:
We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Social media summary:
Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.
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