Distinction of driver contributions to wetland decline and their associated basin hydrology around Iran

Panahi, Davood Moshir; Destouni, Georgia; Kalantari, Zahra; Zahabiyoun, Bagher

doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101126

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“…Nevertheless, isotopes, salts and other tracers are useful water constituents to study for flow tracing and, as such, are addressed in at least 16% of the flow papers. Flow‐focused studies can also neglect small storage‐change effects, such as annual average storage changes that may often be small relative to the main annual average fluxes of precipitation, evapotranspiration and runoff (Panahi et al., 2022). Storage changes due to continuous water flow shifts, however, can accumulate to severe water availability decline for societies and ecosystems over large geographic regions (Destouni et al., 2010; Panahi et al., 2022), indicating the relative lack of large‐scale flow‐storage coupling studies as an essential gap in need of prioritization in future research.…”

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Research Gaps and Priorities for Terrestrial Water and Earth System Connections From Catchment to Global Scale

Zarei,

Destouni

2024

Earth's Future

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The out‐of‐sight groundwater and visible but much less extensive surface waters on land constitute a linked terrestrial water system around the planet. Research is crucial for our understanding of these terrestrial water system links and interactions with other geosystems and key challenges of Earth System change. This study uses a scoping review approach to discuss and identify topical, methodological and geographical gaps and priorities for research on these links and interactions of the coupled ground‐ and surface water (GSW) system at scales of whole‐catchments or greater. Results show that the large‐scale GSW system is considered in just a small part (0.4%–0.8%) of all studies (order of 105 for each topic) of either groundwater or surface water flow, storage, or quality at any scale. While relatively many of the large‐scale GSW studies consider links with the atmosphere or climate (8%–43%), considerably fewer address links with: (a) the cryosphere or coastal ocean as additional interacting geosystems (5%–9%); (b) change drivers/pressures of land‐use, water use, or the energy or food nexus (2%–12%); (c) change impacts related to health, biodiversity or ecosystem services (1%–4%). Methodologically, use of remote sensing data and participatory methods is small, while South America and Africa emerge as the least studied geographic regions. The paper discusses why these topical, methodological and geographical findings indicate important research gaps and priorities for the large‐scale coupled terrestrial GSW system and its roles in the future of the Earth System.

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Research Gaps and Priorities for Terrestrial Water and Earth System Connections From Catchment to Global Scale

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Destouni

2024

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“…Also, human interventions have deteriorated the quality of urban water resources, increasing flooding, land subsidence, farming failures, and aquifer depletion (e.g., [11,12,46,47]). A comprehensive investigation of six major wetlands in Iran revealed that human land use changes in croplands and urban areas were the most critical drivers of wetland decline, followed by climate change (temperature and precipitation) [48].…”

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A Preliminary Review of an Unprecedented Cross-Provincial Water Transfer Plan in Iran: No Clear Vision and Stakeholder Mapping

Amiraslani

2023

Water

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This review paper investigates unprecedented recent investment and capital spending in cross-provincial water management and transfer infrastructure in Iran. Although numerous cross-provincial water transfer plans have been implemented in the country, the scale, approach, and stakeholders involved in this recent national plan are unprecedented. This notable national plan includes long water transfer pipelines that pass through seven provinces, aiming at transferring desalinated water from the Persian Gulf to the interior. Regarding the scale, there have been a few cases of transferring water at the cross-provincial level, but mostly across two provinces. The approach has also changed in this plan. Long-term efforts to construct dams for electricity or farming with limited geographical impact have been shifted to desalinating water, long-distance pipe-laying, large-scale electric-powered water pumping, and long-distance underground tunnels. Stakeholders have become more diverse, from the council members of a small village to high-level decision makers at the national level. This paper elaborates on these extraordinary alterations by exemplifying a few other contemporary case studies of water transfer plans in Iran. It also examines the fundamental logic, bottlenecks, and future scenarios of this large-scale plan.

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“…For example, land‐use changes can alter vector, host and pathogen niches, and host and vector community composition, to posing either higher or lower infection risks (Bellard et al., 2012; Gottdenker et al., 2014; Ogden & Tsao, 2009; Randolph & Dobson, 2012). Moreover, landscape hydrological conditions are related to variations and change trends in both weather‐climate and human land‐ and water‐uses locally regionally (Destouni & Prieto, 2018; Jarsjö et al., 2012; Moshir Panahi et al., 2022) and globally around the world (Destouni et al., 2013; Jaramillo & Destouni, 2014; Kåresdotter et al., 2022) and their changes, for example, in flood event occurrence, can affect vector breeding sites and related vector‐borne disease outbreaks, as well as human exposure to water‐borne diseases (S. Y. Liang & Messenger, 2018). In some regions, disease impacts of landscape‐hydrology changes (Ma et al., 2021) or human activity developments (Reiter, 2001) can even outweigh those of climate change for various diseases (e.g., tick‐borne encephalitis, Q fever and Puumala virus infection for the former types of impacts, and malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever for the latter).…”

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Infectious Disease Sensitivity to Climate and Other Driver‐Pressure Changes: Research Effort and Gaps for Lyme Disease and Cryptosporidiosis

Kalantari

Destouni

2023

GeoHealth

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Climate sensitivity of infectious diseases is discussed in many studies. A quantitative basis for distinguishing and predicting the disease impacts of climate and other environmental and anthropogenic driver‐pressure changes, however, is often lacking. To assess research effort and identify possible key gaps that can guide further research, we here apply a scoping review approach to two widespread infectious diseases: Lyme disease (LD) as a vector‐borne and cryptosporidiosis as a water‐borne disease. Based on the emerging publication data, we further structure and quantitatively assess the driver‐pressure foci and interlinkages considered in the published research so far. This shows important research gaps for the roles of rarely investigated water‐related and socioeconomic factors for LD, and land‐related factors for cryptosporidiosis. For both diseases, the interactions of host and parasite communities with climate and other driver‐pressure factors are understudied, as are also important world regions relative to the disease geographies; in particular, Asia and Africa emerge as main geographic gaps for LD and cryptosporidiosis research, respectively. The scoping approach developed and gaps identified in this study should be useful for further assessment and guidance of research on infectious disease sensitivity to climate and other environmental and anthropogenic changes around the world.

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Distinction of driver contributions to wetland decline and their associated basin hydrology around Iran

Cited by 6 publications

References 82 publications

Research Gaps and Priorities for Terrestrial Water and Earth System Connections From Catchment to Global Scale

Research Gaps and Priorities for Terrestrial Water and Earth System Connections From Catchment to Global Scale

A Preliminary Review of an Unprecedented Cross-Provincial Water Transfer Plan in Iran: No Clear Vision and Stakeholder Mapping

Infectious Disease Sensitivity to Climate and Other Driver‐Pressure Changes: Research Effort and Gaps for Lyme Disease and Cryptosporidiosis

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