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1 Scott, C. A.; Albrecht, T. R.; De Grenade, R.; Zuniga-Teran, A.; Varady, R. G.; Thapa, B. 2018. Water security and the pursuit of food, energy, and earth systems resilience. Water International, 43(8):1055-1074. (Special issue: The Global Water Security Challenge). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2018.1534564]
Water security ; Food security ; Energy sources ; Nexus ; Water resources ; Water supply ; Resource management ; Environmental effects ; Earth ; Resilience
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049059)
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This article addresses the emergence and interrelation of food, energy, and water security in terms of resource use and the ensuing societal and environmental outcomes. For decades, food security and energy security have been well-accepted, operational concepts. Water security is the latest entrant, yet the implications of water insecurity for food, energy and earth systems resilience have not been adequately considered. This article examines how and why this is so – particularly with growing water scarcity and insecurity that may compete with energy and food security – and emphasizes the critical need to link water-energy-food nexus approaches to earth systems resilience.
2 Lund, A. J.; Harrington, E.; Albrecht, T. R.; Hora, T.; Wall, R. E.; Andarge, T. 2022. Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin. Environmental Science and Policy, 133:74-86. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.03.005]
Water resources ; Food security ; Energy ; Nexus ; Dams ; Environmental impact assessment ; Transboundary waters ; River basin development ; Water-borne diseases ; Policies ; Decision making ; Public health ; Livelihoods ; Hydropower ; Risk ; Economic development ; Sustainable Development Goals / West Africa / Senegal River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051099)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122000922/pdfft?md5=0ba479759ca043a2fc7aa57a76785ed1&pid=1-s2.0-S1462901122000922-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051099.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051099.pdf
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Dam development improves water, food, and energy security but often with negative impacts on human health. The transmission of dam-related diseases persists in many dammed catchments despite treatment campaigns. On the Senegal River Basin, the transmission of Schistosoma spp. parasites has been elevated since the construction of dams in the late 1980's. We use narrative analysis and qualitative content analysis of archival documents from this setting to examine health as a component of the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus and understand priorities and trade-offs between sectors across the policy-to-practice continuum. We find that health is recognized as an important component of river basin development, but that priorities articulated at the policy level are not translated into management practices. Incorporating health as a management objective is possible without imposing substantial trade-offs to FEW resources. Coordinated research and surveillance across transboundary jurisdictions will be necessary to inform decision-making on how to operate dams in ways that mitigate their negative health impacts.
3 Albrecht, T. R.; Gerlak, A. K. 2022. Beyond the basin: water security in transboundary environments. Water Security, 17:100124. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100124]
Water security ; Transboundary waters ; River basins ; Water governance ; International waters ; International cooperation ; International law ; Water resources ; Water management ; Strategies ; Decision making ; Sustainability ; Communities ; Conflicts ; Infrastructure ; Political aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051512)
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Water security has emerged as a leading framework for water governance that integrates socio-politico-economic and physical attributes and is readily operationalized. Yet, in transboundary river basins it is unclear to what extent water-security framings have any resonance. We examine how water security has been employed in transboundary water research over the past decade. We find a water-security framing bolsters established governance approaches at the river-basin scale, but also advances new avenues that (1) re-examine the scope of local, national and non-state governance capacity or (2) extend beyond river-basin boundaries and outside the water sector. We examine conceptual and scalar challenges and limitations for transboundary water-security applications and highlight opportunities to expand beyond the river-basin as the dominant focus for transboundary water governance.
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