Adaptive irrigation infrastructure — linking insights from human-water interactions and adaptive pathways

Nikkels, Melle J.; Kumar, Saideepa; Meinke, Holger

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.09.001

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“…However, initiatives would require that governance actors have a good understanding of how to incorporate the coupled nature of various location-and context-specific humanwater interactions and embrace the uncertainties that are part of the process. [53][54][55] More so, Page et al 56 illustrated that there is a need to develop an integrative water research methodology to appreciate the impacts and necessity of desalination within complex hydro-socio-technical systems in countries, especially those currently faced with water scarcity. Furthermore, studies on the multidimensional change in watershed processes resulting from the change in forest cover in tropical regions of Africa illustrate that there are still knowledge gaps on how different types of forest transitions affect low flows and the socio-hydrological links.…”

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Corrigendum: Evaluating South African Weather Service information on Idai tropical cyclone and KwaZulu-Natal flood events

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NoneSocio-hydrology research is concerned with the understanding of how humanity interacts with water resources. The purpose of this study was to assess the disparity between global and African trends as well as developments in the research domain of socio-hydrology. From the viewpoint of a multitude of research themes, multi-author collaborations between African and international researchers and the number of publications produced globally, the results reveal that the field of socio-hydrology is still underdeveloped and yet nascent. At a global level, the USA, China, and the Netherlands have the highest number of scientific publications, while in Africa, South Africa dominates, although these scientific publications are significantly much lower than the global output. The output of scientific publications on socio-hydrology research from Africa increased from 2016, with significant output reached in 2019. Water management and supply, hydrological modelling, flood monitoring as well as policies and decision-making, are some of the dominant themes found through keywords co-occurrence analysis. These main keywords may be considered as the foci of research in socio-hydrology. Although socio-hydrology research is still in the early stages of development in Africa, the cluster and emerging themes analysis provide opportunities for research in Africa that will underpin new frontiers of the research agenda encompassing topics such as the (1) impacts of climate change on socio-hydrology; (2) influence of socio-hydrology on water resources such as surface water and groundwater; (3) benefits of socio-hydrological models on river basins and (4) role of socio-hydrology in economic sectors such as agriculture. Overall, this study points to a need to advance socio-hydrology research in Africa in a bid to address pressing water crises that affect sustainable development as well as to understand the feedback mechanisms and linkages between water resources and different sectors of society. Significance:•The field of socio-hydrology is still under-researched in Africa.• Limited research could be attributed to a lack of expertise, resources and data limitations.• Socio-hydrology research is likely to be strengthened through collaborations between Africa and other developed countries.• Existing gaps present opportunities to advance socio-hydrology research in Africa.

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Corrigendum: Evaluating South African Weather Service information on Idai tropical cyclone and KwaZulu-Natal flood events

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“…As both demand and willingness to pay seem to change over time, we assume the farmers and water managers in the district have valuable knowledge and experience that may be useful to improve the management and governance of water in other parts of Tasmania. However, learning processes are currently lacking in the Tasmanian approach to designing and managing joint irrigation infrastructure (Nikkels, Kumar, & Meinke, 2019).…”

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The social learning potential of participatory water valuation workshops: A case study in Tasmania, Australia

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Participatory water valuation workshops are useful for their valuation outcomes, but can they also foster social learning? Social learning involves changes in understanding through social interactions between actors, which go beyond the individual to become situated within wider social units. Participatory water valuation workshops involve dialoguing about knowledge, perspectives, and preferences, which may be conducive to social learning. In this paper, we assess the social learning potential of a participatory valuation workshop, based on a case study in Tasmania, where farmers, water managers, and a policy maker shared their personal perspectives on the past, current and future values of irrigation water. To assess the social learning potential of a single participatory valuation workshop, we analyzed drivers-that is, factors positively influencing social learning-and outcomes-that is, indications that social learning occurred. Data were collected through an exit survey, in-workshop reflections and semistructured interviews following 3 weeks and 6 months after the actual workshop. The results indicate that the workshop provided the drivers for social learning to occur. In addition, participants indicated to have learned from and with others, and that the workshop provided improved and extended networks. According to the participants, the workshop led to a shared concern about increasing prices for water licences and induced substantive outcomes related to the use, management, and governance of irrigation water. We conclude that participatory valuation workshops, such as the one analyzed here, can foster social learning.

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“…In the example of irrigation where changes to natural landscapes and resource use are concurrently needed, considering the perspectives of different stakeholders increases the legitimacy and social licence of irrigation scheme implementation. However, greater numbers of stakeholders mean that the needs of more agencies must be accommodated, adding considerable complexity to the design process [13,14]. A further issue is how governments, community and industry can collaborate for shared responsibility of agricultural land-use sustainability.…”

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An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning

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Agricultural land-use change is a dynamic process that varies as a function of social, economic and environmental factors spanning from the local to the global scale. The cumulative regional impacts of these factors on land use adoption decisions by farmers are neither well accounted for nor reflected in agricultural land use planning. We present an innovative spatially explicit agent-based modelling approach (Crop GIS-ABM) that accounts for factors involved in farmer decision making on new irrigation adoption to enable land-use predictions and exploration. The model was designed using a participatory approach, capturing stakeholder insights in a conceptual model of farmer decisions. We demonstrate a case study of the factors influencing the uptake of new irrigation infrastructure and land use in Tasmania, Australia. The model demonstrates how irrigated land-use expansion promotes the diffusion of alternative crops in the region, as well as how coupled social, biophysical and environmental conditions play an important role in crop selection. Our study shows that agricultural land use reflected the evolution of multiple simultaneous interacting biophysical and socio-economic drivers, including soil and climate type, crop and commodity prices, and the accumulated effects of interactive decisions of farmers.

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Adaptive irrigation infrastructure — linking insights from human-water interactions and adaptive pathways

Cited by 16 publications

References 51 publications

Corrigendum: Evaluating South African Weather Service information on Idai tropical cyclone and KwaZulu-Natal flood events

Corrigendum: Evaluating South African Weather Service information on Idai tropical cyclone and KwaZulu-Natal flood events

The social learning potential of participatory water valuation workshops: A case study in Tasmania, Australia

An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning

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