Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2023.2184650
S. D. de Bruin, S. Schmeier, Rens van Beek, Marijn Gulpen
{"title":"Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios","authors":"S. D. de Bruin, S. Schmeier, Rens van Beek, Marijn Gulpen","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2023.2184650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2023.2184650","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49596425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2023.2174360
Tony Cavoli, S. Gopalan, Ilke Onur, S. Xenarios
ABSTRACT The existing literature does not probe the extent to which promoting financial inclusion can provide an enabling environment to improve access to sanitation services, which is one of the integral objectives of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. This paper empirically examines if traditional and digital financial inclusion can influence access to sanitation services for 84 low- and middle-income countries covering the period 2000–17. Our results establish that both indicators of traditional and digital financial inclusion generate a strong, positive and robust influence on access to sanitation services in lower and middle-income countries, especially in rural areas.
{"title":"Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries","authors":"Tony Cavoli, S. Gopalan, Ilke Onur, S. Xenarios","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2023.2174360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2023.2174360","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The existing literature does not probe the extent to which promoting financial inclusion can provide an enabling environment to improve access to sanitation services, which is one of the integral objectives of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. This paper empirically examines if traditional and digital financial inclusion can influence access to sanitation services for 84 low- and middle-income countries covering the period 2000–17. Our results establish that both indicators of traditional and digital financial inclusion generate a strong, positive and robust influence on access to sanitation services in lower and middle-income countries, especially in rural areas.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"724 - 745"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46359127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2023.2176655
A. Biswas, C. Tortajada
During the 1970s, the United Nations (UN) held a series of world conferences at high political levels on specific topics, to enhance global awareness of the magnitudes and extents of the problems and to formulate strategies to solve them. The topics of these conferences were complex and no single nation could solve them individually. The focus of the first of this new type of major conferences was on the Human Environment, in Stockholm, in 1972. It was followed in rapid succession by similar high-level global meetings on Population (Bucharest, 1974), Food (Rome, 1974), Women (Mexico City, 1975), Human Settlements (Vancouver, 1976), Water (Mar del Plata, 1977), Desertification (Nairobi, 1977), Science and Technology for Development (Vienna, 1979), and New and Renewable Sources of Energy (Nairobi, 1981). One of the co-authors of this editorial, Professor Biswas, attended all these conferences, primarily as the Senior Scientific Advisor to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Nearly all these conferences were initiated and then actively promoted by a government or governments and then ultimately approved by the UN General Assembly. For example, the Conference on Human Environment was suggested and promoted by Sweden. Later, it was approved by the UN General Assembly. In this sense, the Water Conference was an anomaly. The idea of this conference did not originate from any government but from three remarkable senior employees who floated the idea and then managed to get countries to propose it and finally get it approved by the UN General Assembly. This unsung trio was Vladimir Baum, Enzo Fano and Alagappa Alagappan, senior officials of a now-defunct UN body, Centre for National Resources, Energy and Transport. The Water Conference was officially first proposed in 1971 by the UN’s Committee on Natural Resources. It was then approved by the UN’s Economic and Social Council, in 1973. The UN General Assembly finally endorsed it in December 1975, under Resolution 3513 (XXX). The main objective of the conference was to promote a level of preparedness nationally, regionally and internationally, which would help the world to avoid a water crisis of global dimensions by the year 2000. Its goal, undoubtedly, was ambitious: to ensure the world had an adequate supply of water, of good quality, to meet the needs of a world population that was increasing and urbanizing, but also to seek improved economic and social conditions for all people within a little over two decades. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT 2023, VOL. 39, NO. 2, 177–183 https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2023.2176655
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Pub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2022.2163478
Arundhati Deka, Natasha Hazarika, S. Vij, A. Barua, E. Fantini
ABSTRACT This article analyses the media reporting on conflicts and cooperation in the Brahmaputra River basin. We used 2437 newspaper articles published between 2010 and 2020 from the four riparians (China, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh) to explain the science–media interlinkages and what print media reports on conflicts and cooperation. We have found that most articles focus on conflicts, especially relating to hydropower development, data and information asymmetry, and disaster governance. There is limited media reporting on the avenues of cooperation such as informal water diplomacy, collaborative research opportunities, and the community and the culture that brings the riparians together.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2023.2165048
Rosario Gómez, H. Weikard
ABSTRACT Inefficient water allocations in river basins limit economic benefits and feed conflicts. We study how institutional change triggered by investments and new technologies can improve water-use efficiency and mitigate conflicts. We develop a bargaining framework to analyse the Peruvian Tambo–Santiago–Ica river basin, which has important economic and social inequalities. We model agents’ welfare changes when joint investments are implemented that are instrumental in overcoming conflict. While upstream communities are poor and rely on rainfed agriculture and cattle-raising, downstream agricultural producers are well-off and produce high-value crops. We find that joint investments can increase both regions’ payoffs and gains from cooperation can be strengthened by side-payments.
{"title":"Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru","authors":"Rosario Gómez, H. Weikard","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2023.2165048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2023.2165048","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Inefficient water allocations in river basins limit economic benefits and feed conflicts. We study how institutional change triggered by investments and new technologies can improve water-use efficiency and mitigate conflicts. We develop a bargaining framework to analyse the Peruvian Tambo–Santiago–Ica river basin, which has important economic and social inequalities. We model agents’ welfare changes when joint investments are implemented that are instrumental in overcoming conflict. While upstream communities are poor and rely on rainfed agriculture and cattle-raising, downstream agricultural producers are well-off and produce high-value crops. We find that joint investments can increase both regions’ payoffs and gains from cooperation can be strengthened by side-payments.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"796 - 818"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2022.2163624
Alhassan Ibrahim, K. Bartsch, E. Sharifi
{"title":"Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia","authors":"Alhassan Ibrahim, K. Bartsch, E. Sharifi","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2163624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2163624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48309644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2022.2147149
Joyce Valdovinos, Karol Yañez Soria
{"title":"Urban water governance in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Joyce Valdovinos, Karol Yañez Soria","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2147149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2147149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45899094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2022.2142203
D. Leroy, G. Bocco, Sara Barrasa García
ABSTRACT This paper explores smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in south-eastern Mexico. Data from 85 farmers in four communities were collected through semi-structured interviews. The results show that farmers’ adaptations are stimulated by their perceptions of the causes and dynamics of water scarcity. Findings also reveal that differences in perceptions of, and adaptations to, water scarcity within communities are due to characteristics such as irrigation techniques, water intake location, productive systems and access to groundwater. This study recommends the implementation of policies based on local conditions to cope with water scarcity.
{"title":"Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in Chiapas, Mexico","authors":"D. Leroy, G. Bocco, Sara Barrasa García","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2142203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2142203","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in south-eastern Mexico. Data from 85 farmers in four communities were collected through semi-structured interviews. The results show that farmers’ adaptations are stimulated by their perceptions of the causes and dynamics of water scarcity. Findings also reveal that differences in perceptions of, and adaptations to, water scarcity within communities are due to characteristics such as irrigation techniques, water intake location, productive systems and access to groundwater. This study recommends the implementation of policies based on local conditions to cope with water scarcity.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"773 - 795"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48419837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2022.2136144
S. A. Rentería-Guevara, J. G. Rangel‐Peraza, A. Sanhouse-García, Fernando García-Páez, Y. Bustos-Terrones, Cuauhtémoc Franco-Ochoa
ABSTRACT The development of instruments for the administration of water use is a pending issue in both developing and developed countries. UNESCO has published guidance on determining water availability in Latin American and Caribbean countries. We applied this method to the Culiacán River basin, the most significant basin in Mexico for agricultural productivity. We find that surface water availability has been overestimated due to the inclusion of non-physical terms in the water balance equation, miscalculation of natural runoff and the omission of ecological water flow. Thus, unsustainable surface water use is allowed based on a miscalculation of physical water availability.
{"title":"Unsustainable use of surface water due to water balance miscalculation: the Culiacán River basin, Mexico","authors":"S. A. Rentería-Guevara, J. G. Rangel‐Peraza, A. Sanhouse-García, Fernando García-Páez, Y. Bustos-Terrones, Cuauhtémoc Franco-Ochoa","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2136144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2136144","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The development of instruments for the administration of water use is a pending issue in both developing and developed countries. UNESCO has published guidance on determining water availability in Latin American and Caribbean countries. We applied this method to the Culiacán River basin, the most significant basin in Mexico for agricultural productivity. We find that surface water availability has been overestimated due to the inclusion of non-physical terms in the water balance equation, miscalculation of natural runoff and the omission of ecological water flow. Thus, unsustainable surface water use is allowed based on a miscalculation of physical water availability.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"746 - 772"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44592858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2022.2131362
T. Yasmin, S. Dhesi, I. Kuznetsova, R. Cooper, S. Krause, I. Lynch
ABSTRACT This study conducted an in-depth systematic review of literature to explore the context of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) sustainability and resilience in refugee communities. Our results indicate growing concerns, given the two-decade waiting period for refugees to achieve repatriation/integration into host communities, and the bulk of their accommodation is largely in the Global South. This makes the sustainability of WaSH increasingly complex and depends on understanding the roles and interdependences among the factors in each specific refugee camp, and recognizes that it is not ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions and the sustainability of one camp might not be suitable for other camps.
{"title":"A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities","authors":"T. Yasmin, S. Dhesi, I. Kuznetsova, R. Cooper, S. Krause, I. Lynch","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2131362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2131362","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study conducted an in-depth systematic review of literature to explore the context of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) sustainability and resilience in refugee communities. Our results indicate growing concerns, given the two-decade waiting period for refugees to achieve repatriation/integration into host communities, and the bulk of their accommodation is largely in the Global South. This makes the sustainability of WaSH increasingly complex and depends on understanding the roles and interdependences among the factors in each specific refugee camp, and recognizes that it is not ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions and the sustainability of one camp might not be suitable for other camps.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"691 - 723"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46955435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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