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1 Lautze, J.; Reeves, M.; Vega, R.; Kirshen, P. 2005. Water allocation, climate change, and sustainable peace: The Israeli proposal. Water International, 30(2):197-209.
Climate change ; Water resource management ; International cooperation ; Water supply ; Water use / Israel / Palestine
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H037850)
2 Lautze, J.; Giordano, Mark; Borghese, M. 2005. Driving forces behind African transboundary water law: internal, external, and implications. In van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.), African water laws: plural legislative frameworks for rural water management in Africa: an international workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. pp.26-1/26-13.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 LAU Record No: H038704)
3 Lautze, J.; Giordano, Mark. 2006. Transboundary water law in Africa: development, nature, and Geography. Natural Resources Journal, 45(4):1053-1087.
Water law ; River basins ; Water management ; International cooperation ; International agreements ; Colonialism ; History / Africa / Sudan / Egypt / Niger Basin / Senegal Basin / Nile / Zambezi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 LAU Record No: H038702)
4 Lautze, J.; Giordano, Mark. 2006. Equity in transboundary water law: valuable paradigm or merely semantics? Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 17(1):89-122.
Water law ; International cooperation ; Water allocation ; Watercourses ; International cooperation ; Trade agreements ; Equity / Africa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 346.0432 G100 LAU Record No: H039134)
5 Lautze, J.; McCartney, Matthew; Kirshen, P.; Olana, D.; Jayasinghe, Gayathree; Spielman, A. 2007. Effect of a large dam on malaria risk: The Koka Reservoir in Ethiopia. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 12(8):982-989.
Malaria ; Risks ; Health hazards ; Analysis ; Dams ; Reservoirs ; Climate / Ethiopia / Rift Valley / Koka Reservoir
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 614.532 G136 LAU Record No: H040357)
6 Lautze, J.; Barry, Boubacar; Youkhana, E. 2008. Changing paradigms in Volta Basin water management: customary, national and transboundary. Water Policy, 10(6): 577-594.
River basin management ; Water policy ; Water rights ; Water supply ; Institutions ; History ; Colonialism ; International cooperation / West Africa / Ghana / Burkina Faso / Volta Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G100 LAU Record No: H041196)
This paper examines water management policies and institutions in the Ghanaian and Burkinabe portions of the Volta basin of West Africa. The paper begins with a brief historical overview of political, cultural and environmental developments in the basin since the late 19th century. Customary approaches to water management in the Volta are described next, followed by colonial and post-colonial water management developments in Ghana and Burkina Faso. The interplay between customary and national water management institutions in the watershed is then analysed so as to understand how conditions changed as a result of national-level developments. The paper also examines transboundary developments in the Volta basin, and concludes with a discussion of some of the strengths and weaknesses of the different management approaches.
7 Kibret, Solomon; McCartney, Matthew; Lautze, J.. 2008. Mosquitoes and malaria in the vicinity of the Koka Reservoir, Ethiopia. In Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, F.; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S. Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.). Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.1. Keynotes; Cross-cutting topics. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.34-37.
Malaria ; Anopheles culicifacies ; Mosquitoes ; Disease vectors ; Reservoirs ; Dams ; Villages ; Surveys / Ethiopia / Koka Reservoir / Awash River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041678)
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8 Giordano, Mark; Lautze, J.. 2008. Using the seemingly uninteresting African transboundary water law database to derive surprisingly interesting water policy lessons. In Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, F.; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S. Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.). Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.1. Keynotes; Cross-cutting topics. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.11-15.
Water law ; Territorial waters ; International waters ; International agreements ; Treaties ; Water policy ; Water allocation ; Equity ; Conflict ; Databases / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041768)
9 Lautze, J.; Kirshen, P. 2007. Dams, health, and livelihoods: lessons from the Senegal, suggestions for Africa. International Journal of River Basin Management, 5(3):199-206.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042583)
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Efforts in previous decades, largely culminating in the release of the World Commission on Dams Report [44], have engendered a more circumspect approach to dam construction and operations – one which incorporates consideration for the environment, health, equity, stakeholders, and livelihoods. Such integration nevertheless often remains at a rhetorical level, preventing tangible incorporation of these factors into Decision Support Tools (DSTs) for water management at a basin or sub-basin level. This paper uses the experience of the Senegal River Basin (SRB) to generate suggestions for how public health and smallholder livelihood concerns can be explicitly and quantitatively incorporated into dam planning and operations decisions in Africa’s other basins. The study examines the operational tradeoffs made among livelihoods, health, and more conventional water needs such as irrigation and hydropower in SRB water management strategies over the last two decades. The examination of these tradeoffs is used to develop common health and economic metrics to aid water management decisions. In conclusion, suggestions are made for how utilization of these common metrics can enable DSTs in Africa’s other basins to incorporate public health and smallholder livelihood parameters into dam planning and operations decisions.
10 Lautze, J.; Giordano, Mark. 2007. A history of transboundary water law in Africa. In Kitissou, M.; Ndulo, M.; Nagel, M.; Grieco, M. (Eds.). The hydropolitics of Africa: a contemporary challenge. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars. pp.93-113.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 KIT Record No: H044805)
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11 Mukherji, Aditi; Kumar, Manish; Berman, H. M.; Brackel, A. K. C.; Caretta, M. A.; Dowler, C.; Fanghella, V.; Gomes, S. L.; Gray, B. J.; Hegde, G.; Lautze, J.; Mahanti, A.; Mehar, M.; Mills-Novoa, M.; Mukhopadhyay, S.; Lakshmikantha, N. R.; Panday, P. K.; Parajuli, J.; Priya, R.; Reddy, E. B. U. B.; Rittelmeyer, P.; Seigerman, C. K.; Shah, R.; Shrestha, G.; Sidhu, B. S.; Singh, A.; Srinivasan, J.; Ternes, B.; Thompson, W. R. D.; Vora, S. K.; Yashoda, Y. 2021. Effectiveness of water adaptation responses in reducing climate-related risks: a meta-review. Final report. Canberra, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). 75p.
Climate change adaptation ; Risk reduction ; Water use ; Agricultural sector ; Economic aspects ; Financing ; Ecological factors ; Vulnerability ; Governance ; Indicators ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052694)
https://www.aciar.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-08/final-report-wac-2020-157.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052694.pdf
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Anthropogenic climate change impacts every aspect of water security through changes in water availability and quality, increases in water-induced disasters, and changes in ecosystems and their services. In response to climate and non-climate induced water insecurity, people and governments around the world are undertaking various adaptation responses. While there are thousands of case studies of current implemented adaptation responses to water insecurity, there is a lack of synthesized understanding about the effectiveness of these responses in reducing risks. In this report, we describe our meta-review methodology for assessing the outcomes of current water-related responses. For assessing the outcomes of current adaptation responses, we use a database of 1819 documented case studies of adaptation across all sectors published since 2014. Of these, only 359 (19.7%) case studies assess the effectiveness of current water-related adaptation responses. Outcomes are measured across 6 dimensions and an adaptation response is deemed to be “beneficial” in reducing climate or related risks if the study documents a positive outcome on any of these six “outcome” indicators. These are: (1) the response led to positive economic/financial outcomes; (2) positive water-related outcomes; (3) positive environmental/ecological outcomes; (4) positive outcomes for vulnerable populations; (5) positive institutional or sociocultural outcomes; and (6) positive outcome on any other parameter not captured by the above five indicators. Using these criteria, 319 out of 359 (88.9%) studies that documented waterrelated adaptation were deemed to be “effective” in reducing risks. However, only 64 (17.8%) of those studies were of “high” enough quality to causally link adaptation response with the outcome, while the rest failed to do so, making the evidence base even smaller. Overall, only 64 out of 1819 studies (3.5%) of all studies provide an assessment of the benefitsof adaptation response with a high degree of rigour. A majority (~81%) of the adaptation responses were about adaptation in the agriculture sector, followed by adaptations in water-related disasters sector, and urban and peri-urban water use. About one-third, of the adaptation responses which were found to be “effective”, were also deemed to be maladaptive, especially if it involved intensification that needed fertilizers and pesticides or water-intensive crop varieties. The majority of the water adaptation responses are about incremental adaptation, that is adaptation that aims to improve existing ways of doing things (e.g., better crop varieties replacing older varieties), without tackling root causes of vulnerability. Cases on transformative adaptation are few and far between, and migration, and capacity building and training seem to be the only two adaptation responses that have transformative possibilities. Similarly, a large number of case studies documented limits or barriers to adaptation, and the main barriers were deemed to be financial, or governance-related, followed by lack of information and awareness, and capacity. Given the huge database, and that it took almost 5 out of 6 months of the project to get all the articles coded and quality checked. Thus, the analysis in this report is preliminary and limited to summary statistics.
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