Evaluating Vulnerability of Central Asian Water Resources under Uncertain Climate and Development Conditions: The Case of the Ili-Balkhash Basin

Boer, Tesse de; Paltán, Homero; Sternberg, Troy; Wheeler, Kevin

doi:10.3390/w13050615

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“…The Caspian Sea, for example, bordered just two countries during most of the twentieth century but now shares a coastline with five sovereign nations, each with its own priorities for the use of this shared water resource [135,149]. China's spectacular economic growth has also dramatically stimulated the economy in the upper Ili River basin; new dams are being built, and withdrawals of water for irrigation and industrial use are reducing flows into Kazakhstan [28,150,151].…”

Section: Water and Other Natural Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Changing Dynamics of Kazakhstan’s Fisheries Sector: From the Early Soviet Era to the Twenty-First Century

Graham

Pueppke

Nurtazin

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Water

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Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic that is now independent, lies near the center of arid Eurasia. Its sparse hydrographic network includes a small number of large rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, many ponds and smaller streams, as well as littoral zones bordering the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. A diverse fisheries sector, initially based on wild fish capture and later including aquaculture, developed in these waters during the Soviet era, when animal agriculture was unable to meet the protein needs of Soviet citizens. The sector, which was originally centered on the Volga–Caspian basin, was tightly managed by Moscow and benefitted from coordinated investments in research, infrastructure, and human resources, as well as policies to increase the consumption of fish products. Independence in 1991 administered a political and economic shock that disrupted these relationships. Kazakhstan’s wild fish harvests plummeted by more than two-thirds, and aquaculture collapsed to just 3% of its previous level. Per capita consumption of fish products also declined, as did processing capacity. Favorable recent policies to define fishing rights, incentivize investments, prevent illegal fishing, and make stocking more effective have helped to reverse these trends and stabilize the sector. Continued recovery will require additional steps to manage water resources sustainably, prioritize the use of water for fish habitats, and minimize the effects of climate change. This comprehensive assessment of Kazakhstan’s fisheries sector over the past century provides the basis to understand how long-term dynamic interactions of the environment with the political economy influence fisheries in Eurasia’s largest country.

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Section: Water and Other Natural Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Changing Dynamics of Kazakhstan’s Fisheries Sector: From the Early Soviet Era to the Twenty-First Century

Graham

Pueppke

Nurtazin

et al. 2022

Water

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“…The budget of the latter is USD 46 million, including contributions from national governments. Furthermore, the law on renewable energy was adopted in 2021 (CIS Legislation, 2021 [109]). This new law includes green tariffs and other advanced approaches and principles on preferences/privileges to support the development of renewables, elaborates legal, institutional, financial and other terms for renewable energy producers (and services) in Turkmenistan, and outlines procedures of interaction with the state energy agency.…”

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Benefits of regional co-operation on the energy-water-land use nexus transformation in Central Asia

2022

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The OECD Green Growth Strategy, launched in May 2011, provides concrete recommendations and measurement tools to support countries' efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while at the same time ensure that natural assets continue to provide the ecosystems services on which our well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development.This paper has been authorised for publication by Alain de Serres, Acting Director of Environment Directorate. OECD Green Growth Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s). This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.OECD Green Growth Papers aim to describe preliminary results or research in progress by the authors and are published to stimulate discussion on specific topics and obtain feedback from interested audiences. They complement the OECD Green Growth Studies series, which aims to provide in-depth reviews of the green growth issues faced by different sectors.

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“…Recent analysis of land-use cover change also reveals the expansion of irrigated cropland in the Chinese part of the basin (Qi et al, 2019). As such, future scenarios for the Ili basin are shown to be highly dependent on the extent to which China continues to develop agriculture upstream (De Boer et al, 2021).…”

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Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management

Brassett

Akmadi

Sternberg

2022

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and infrastructural development has led to growing concerns regarding the future of Central Asia's water resources. However, few attempts have been made to assess the impacts this will have on specific transboundary basins within the region. This article explores how the context of the BRI transcends its physical impacts within the Ili and Irtysh basins, creating a sanctioned discourse that forecloses the possibility of 'successful' negotiations at an official level. As such, pathways to transboundary water management that exist beyond the negotiations are shown to have greater plausibility and potential effectiveness.

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Evaluating Vulnerability of Central Asian Water Resources under Uncertain Climate and Development Conditions: The Case of the Ili-Balkhash Basin

Cited by 19 publications

References 66 publications

The Changing Dynamics of Kazakhstan’s Fisheries Sector: From the Early Soviet Era to the Twenty-First Century

The Changing Dynamics of Kazakhstan’s Fisheries Sector: From the Early Soviet Era to the Twenty-First Century

Benefits of regional co-operation on the energy-water-land use nexus transformation in Central Asia

Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management

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