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1 Varis, O.; Keskinen, M.. 2003. Socio-economic analysis of the Tonle Sap Region, Cambodia: Building links and capacity for targeted poverty alleviation. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 19(2):295-310.
Water use ; Poverty ; River basin development ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects / Cambodia / Tonle Sap Region / Mekong
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H032199)
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2 Varis, O.; Keskinen, M.. 2006. Policy analysis for the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: A Bayesian network model approach. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 22(3):417-431.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H039464)
3 Keskinen, M.. 2006. The lake with floating villages: Socio-economic analysis of the Tonle Sap Lake. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 22(3):463-480.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H039467)
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4 Sarkkula, J.; Keskinen, M.; Koponen, J.; Kummu, M.; Richey, J. E.; Varis, O. 2009. Hydropower in the Mekong Region: what are the likely impacts upon fisheries. In Molle, Francois; Foran, T.; Kakonen, M. (Eds.). Contested waterscapes in the Mekong region: hydropower, livelihoods and governance. London, UK: Earthscan. pp.227-249.
Hydroelectric schemes ; Fisheries ; Models ; River Basins ; Productivity ; Flood plains ; Economic aspects ; Poverty ; Dams / China / Mekong Region / Mekong River Basin / Tonle Sap River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G8000 MOL Record No: H042358)
5 Sarkkula, J.; Keskinen, M.; Koponen, J.; Kummu, M.; Nikula, J.; Varis, O.; Virtanen, M. 2007. Mathematical modeling in integrated management of water resources: magical tool, mathematical toy or something in between? In Lebel, L.; Dore, J.; Daniel, R.; Koma, Y. S. (Eds.). Democratizing water governance in the Mekong. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Mekong Press. pp.127-156.
Mathematical models ; Water resource management ; Impact assessment ; Forecasting / South East Asia / Cambodia / Mekong River / Tonle Sap Lake
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9162 G800 LEB Record No: H042587)
6 Kummu, M.; Keskinen, M.; Varis, O. (Eds.) 2008. Modern myths of the Mekong: a critical review of water and development concepts, principles and policies. Espoo, Finland: Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). 187p. (Water and Development Publications 1)
Water resources development ; River basins ; Stream flow ; Water management ; Water policy ; Riverbank protection ; Erosion ; Flooding ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Water levels ; Dams ; Lakes ; Fisheries ; Community involvement ; Gender mainstreaming ; Living standards ; Community organizations ; Sustainable development ; Economic sectors ; Informal sector ; Urban areas ; Population density ; Community organizations ; Natural resources ; Environmental effects ; Human behaviour ; Ecosystems / Cambodia / China / Mekong River Basin / Tonle Sap Lake / Angkor / Phnom Penh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G800 KUM Record No: H047272)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047272.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047272.pdf
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7 Jalilov, S.-M.; Keskinen, M.; Varis, O.; Amer, S.; Ward, F. A. 2016. Managing the water-energy-food nexus: gains and losses from new water development in Amu Darya River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 539:648-661. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.071]
Water resources development ; Energy generation ; Water power ; Food security ; Water use ; Hydrology ; Economic value ; Models ; Reservoir operation ; Dams ; River basins ; Crop production ; Farmland / Central Asia / Tajikistan / Afghanistan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan / Amu Darya River Basin / Rogun Dam / Vakhsh River / Nurek Reservoir
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047604)
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According to the UN, the population of Central Asia will increase from its current approximately 65 million people to a well over 90 million by the end of this century. Taking this increasing population into consideration, it is impossible to project development strategies without considering three key factors in meeting the demands of a growing population: water, food and energy. Societies will have to choose, for instance, between using land and fertilizer for food production or for bio-based or renewable energy production, and between using fresh water for energy production or for irrigating crops. Thus water, food and energy are inextricably linked and must be considered together as a system. Recently, tensions among the Central Asian countries over the use of water for energy and energy production have increased with the building of Rogun Dam on the Vakhsh River, a tributary of the Amu Darya River. The dam will provide upstream Tajikistan with hydropower, while downstream countries fear it could negatively impact their irrigated agriculture. Despite recent peer reviewed literature on water resources management in Amu Darya Basin, none to date have addressed the interconnection and mutual impacts within water–energy–food systems in face of constructing the Rogun Dam. We examine two potential operation modes of the dam: Energy Mode (ensuring Tajikistan’s hydropower needs) and Irrigation Mode (ensuring water for agriculture downstream). Results show that the Energy Mode could ensure more than double Tajikistan’s energy capacity, but would reduce water availability during the growing season, resulting in an average 37% decline in agricultural benefits in downstream countries. The Irrigation Mode could bring a surplus in agricultural benefits to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in addition an increasing energy benefits in Tajikistan by two fold. However, energy production in the Irrigation Mode would be non-optimally distributed over the seasons resulting in the most of hydropower being produced during the growing season. Neither operation mode provides optimal benefits for all the countries, emphasizing how difficult it is to actually reach a win–win scenario across the water–energy–food security nexus in transboundary river basins.
8 Fallon, A.; Jones, R. W.; Keskinen, M.. 2022. Bringing resilience-thinking into water governance: two illustrative case studies from South Africa and Cambodia. Global Environmental Change, 75:102542. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102542]
Water governance ; Resilience ; Case studies ; Lakes ; River basins ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Environmental factors ; Infrastructure ; Transformation ; Climate variability / South Africa / Cambodia / Tonle Sap Lake / Limpopo River / Doringlaagte Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051293)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378022000802/pdfft?md5=8ab801fac14d168e408a444af07f16e6&pid=1-s2.0-S0959378022000802-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051293.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051293.pdf
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Resilience is a multidimensional concept that is increasingly used to understand environmental change in hydrological systems. Yet, the current discussion about water governance and resilience remains relatively limited, with resilience typically seen as a normative outcome for governance (i.e., to be resilient against change). Using a theoretical multiplicity approach, we explore how the theories of social-ecological systems (SES), resilience and interactive (water) governance can provide new insights for water governance studies. We propose a resilience–governance framework that captures the partly overlapping but distinct characteristics from these three theories. The framework aims to develop a more nuanced way of using resilience-thinking for water governance, viewing resilience as a function of three capacities (absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity) and noting the simultaneous existence of three interpretations for resilience (as a property, process and outcome) across different scales. The framework also considers issues of power and equity, which are often missing from resilience framings. We illustrate the framework with two case studies – the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia and a small sub-catchment of the Limpopo River Basin in South Africa – to provide two distinct examples of the possibilities of resilient governance. Finally, we consider what the framework suggests more broadly for ongoing discussions around resilience and water governance, including the possibilities for governance to also ‘bounce forward’ – i.e., transform – to a new, improved state. We argue that resilience-thinking may be valuable in understanding governance characteristics and guiding governance processes, in addition to seeing resilience (just) as a normative end-goal. In this way, the article supports an epistemological shift away from focusing on institutional structure, towards capturing the dynamic processes within governing systems.
9 Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K.; Gain, A. K.; Keskinen, M.; Varis, O.; McKnight, U. S. 2022. To what extent should we ensure the explicit inclusion of water quality within the WEF nexus? Discussion of “water quality: the missing dimension of water in the water-energy-food nexus”. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 67(8):1287-1290. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2022.2077651]
Water quality ; Energy ; Foods ; Nexus approaches ; Ecosystem services ; Biodiversity ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Models ; Policies ; Decision making ; Frameworks
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051408)
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We congratulate Heal et al. for initiating an important discussion on how to broaden the scope of the water–energy–food nexus. We agree that more explicit inclusion of water quality into the nexus is an important step forward. At the same time, water quality is itself an indicator of e.g. ecosystem services and biodiversity, and improvement of water quality comes with a cost in terms of resource consumption that is typically not included in models studying the water–energy–food nexus. We already see hesitation in using the nexus for policy development, and further complexity may be an additional barrier to its practical implementation. So, while the consideration of water quality is indeed important for the nexus, it also suggests that perhaps it is necessary to consider more local contexts than striving for one global framing for analysis of the water–energy–food nexus.
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