Analysis for water conflict transformation

Zeitoun, Mark; Mirumachi, Naho; Warner, Jeroen; Kirkegaard, Matthew; Cascão, Ana Elisa

doi:10.1080/02508060.2019.1607479

Cited by 42 publications

(22 citation statements)

References 56 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…However, this simplified model has become increasingly discredited (Abbott et al, 2019; Abbott et al, 2019; Wine & Davison, 2019; Zeitoun et al, 2019) in favor of one that considers hydrological processes relevant to the human domination that characterizes the Anthropocene. Such processes have triggered the expansion in the distribution of irrigated agriculture ( IA 1 ).…”

Section: Conceptual Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Water‐Limited Landscapes, an Anthropocene Exchange: Trading Lakes for Irrigated Agriculture

Wine

Laronne

2020

Earth's Future

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Lakes-quintessential features of Earth's surface prized from perspectives of water security, aquatic ecosystems, and recreation alike-are shrinking in water-limited regions of all of Earth's inhabited continents. Here we assessed Landsat-derived long-term decrease in global lake area relative to historical lake extent aiming to determine the role of recent Anthropocene levels of irrigated agriculture in the global phenomenon of lake desiccation. As of 2015, 11% (1.8 · 10 5 km 2 ) of global lake area has already been lost, primarily due to increased water consumption in support of irrigated agriculture in endorheic basins within water-limited regions. However, current levels of irrigated agriculture portend substantial additional shrinkage of global lakes before reaching new equilibria with present-day inflows, with an additional 60-130% increase in endorheic lake loss anticipated. The time required for shrinking lakes to attain new equilibria ranges from decades to centuries depending on lake hyposometry. Even a small decrease in lake area can portend lake transition from exorheic to endorheic and dramatic reductions in water quality. Thus, lake area changes severely understate the perilous condition of global lakes. The watershed area contributing to shrinking (endorheic and exorheic) lakes accounts for 18% of Earth's land area, far too large for the irrigated agriculture therein to be transferred elsewhere in order to save these lakes, though continued developments in the efficiency of water consumption in agriculture and urban areas can save significant quantities of water. This suggests that global lake shrinkage may be a harbinger signaling mankind having exceeded Earth's sustainable carrying capacity.Plain Language Summary Today, a host of processes influence the terrestrial water balance.These processes drive the observed shrinkage of lakes in water-limited regions of all inhabited continents. Typically, lake shrinkage is attributed either to climate change or unsustainable increases in human water consumption. However, while drivers of lake desiccation have been explored for individual lakes, the causes of this phenomenon have not been explored at the global scale. We therefore propose a simple conceptual model in which lake area and agricultural area are exchangeable in closed basins. We find that this simple model accurately determines the role of agriculture in loss of endorheic lakes. This model demonstrates that irrigated agriculture is the primary driver of desiccation of global lakes.

show abstract

Section: Conceptual Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Water‐Limited Landscapes, an Anthropocene Exchange: Trading Lakes for Irrigated Agriculture

Wine

Laronne

2020

Earth's Future

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The visual analysis of modularization uses the "Fruchterman-Reingold" layout algorithm, which principle is to treat each node in the network as a point charge, and the connection between the two points (nodes) is treated as a spring [13]. The force of each point in the initial state can be calculated and the position information is updated until each point reaches equilibrium, to reduce the intersection of the edges in the layout and keep the length of the edges consistent.…”

Section: Modularity Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring China’s Water Environment Management System: A Social Network Perspective

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite restructuring in institutions related to environmental protection, the multi-sectorial decentralized water management system of China continued to be widely criticized. To identify the problems in China’s water management system and the direction of future reform, this article implemented social network analysis. From multiple perspectives (covering efficiency analysis, condensation analysis, and network centrality analysis), we quantitatively analyzed the structural change of the super-ministry reform of water environment management in China. We found that the 2018 super ministry reform of the system made the aggregation and central enhancement of China’s water management network, hence the power of water environmental management is more concentrated in the core department. However, the function overlap still exists after the reform. Some key issues of water resources management are absent from the responsibility of the core management department. Therefore, the cohesion and management effectiveness of the overall management network need to be further improved. Finally, we summarized several practical implications for future water management system reform, and the kernel is to achieve integrated management of water resource and water environment.

show abstract

“…The Transformative Analysis is the most recent analytical framework that is introduced by the hydropolitics scholars. It can be considered as the first hydropolitical mechanism that has been developed to be used for planning purposes [187]. The Transformative Analysis attempts to trace and analyse strategies that are used by water-sharing states to identify which of them can improve the inter-state power relations and establish sustainable transboundary water arrangements [187].…”

Section: Hydropoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It can be considered as the first hydropolitical mechanism that has been developed to be used for planning purposes [187]. The Transformative Analysis attempts to trace and analyse strategies that are used by water-sharing states to identify which of them can improve the inter-state power relations and establish sustainable transboundary water arrangements [187]. As this analytical framework has been very recently introduced, many of its ideas still need to be clarified and tested by applying it into real transboundary water conflicts.…”

Section: Hydropoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transboundary Water Conflict Resolution Mechanisms: Substitutes or Complements

Tayia

2019

Water

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper examines the transboundary water resources conflict resolution mechanisms. Various academic fields have provided conflict resolution mechanisms that could be used to analyse transboundary water conflicts. These mechanisms include social planner, water market, game theory, static and dynamic systems engineering models, and negotiation analyses. These mechanisms share some common characteristic features. This similarity has led to a general belief that these mechanisms are competitive substitutes. However, closer examination by this research reveals that these mechanisms have more complementarity than similarity. This complementarity permits researchers and practitioners to combine any two or more of them to develop more comprehensive mechanisms with stronger analytical capacity to analyse the different elements of the process of transboundary water conflict resolution.

show abstract

Analysis for water conflict transformation

Cited by 42 publications

References 56 publications

In Water‐Limited Landscapes, an Anthropocene Exchange: Trading Lakes for Irrigated Agriculture

In Water‐Limited Landscapes, an Anthropocene Exchange: Trading Lakes for Irrigated Agriculture

Restructuring China’s Water Environment Management System: A Social Network Perspective

Transboundary Water Conflict Resolution Mechanisms: Substitutes or Complements

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About