Modelling crop evapotranspiration and potential impacts on future water availability in the Indo-Gangetic Basin

Pandeya, Bhopal; Mulligan, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2013.07.019

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“…The Co$ting Nature platform not only considers the economic values of the ecosystem services, but provides an opportunity for long-term scenario planning towards conservation and better land planning. It lumps together the magnitude and geographical patterns (both potential and realised) of beneficiaries of ecosystem services, at global and local scales [36]. The mapping of ecosystem services and ultimate valuation by the Co$ting Nature platform also identifies far-reaching implications for beneficiaries [37].…”

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Ecosystem Service Valuation for a Critical Biodiversity Area: Case of the Mphaphuli Community, South Africa

Musetsho

Chitakira

Ramoelo

2022

Land

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The study of ecosystem services and the valuation of their contribution to human wellbeing is gaining increasing interest among scientists and decision-makers. The setting of this study was a critical biodiversity area on a portion of land largely presided over by a traditional leadership structure on behalf of a relatively poor local community in South Africa. The study identified several ecosystem services and performed an economic valuation of these services, and their importance both locally and globally using the Co$ting Nature V3 tool. The study identified ecosystem services such as the regulation of air quality, regulation of natural hazards, and provision of water. The economic valuation was carried out for all identified ecosystem services, realised and potential. The total realised economic value of ecosystem services was found to be US$528,280,256.00, whereas hazard mitigation potential was found to be US$765,598,080.00 across the study area. Artisanal fisheries were the least valued ecosystem service at US$5577.54. The values of the ecosystem services differed across the eleven land use land cover classes. The outcomes of the study focused on a very local scale, which was a departure from other studies previously carried out in South Africa, which focused more on the identification and valuation of regional and national scale ecosystem services.

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Ecosystem Service Valuation for a Critical Biodiversity Area: Case of the Mphaphuli Community, South Africa

Musetsho

Chitakira

Ramoelo

2022

Land

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“…However, when quantity and quality aspects are considered a finer scale is retained, e.g., sub-basins or land cover types. One study also used administrative boundaries to analyse the provision of the ecosystem services [61] which highlights the potential disconnect between the scales of the environmental system and those of the human system [25].…”

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Challenges in Using Hydrology and Water Quality Models for Assessing Freshwater Ecosystem Services: A Review

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Abstract:Freshwater ecosystems contribute to many ecosystem services, many of which are being threatened by human activities such as land use change, river morphological changes, and climate change. Many disciplines have studied the processes underlying freshwater ecosystem functions, ranging from hydrology to ecology, including water quality, and a panoply of models are available to simulate their behaviour. This understanding is useful for the prediction of ecosystem services, but the model outputs must go beyond the production of time-series of biophysical variables, and must facilitate the beneficial use of the information it contains about the ecosystem services it describes. This article analyses the literature of ad hoc approaches that aim at quantifying one or more freshwater ecosystem services. It identifies the strategies adopted to use disciplinary-specific models for the prediction of the services. This review identifies that hydrological, water quality, and ecological models form a valuable knowledge base to predict changes in ecosystem conditions, but challenges remain to make proper and fruitful use of these models. In particular, considerations of temporal and spatial scales could be given more attention in order to provide better justifications for the choice of a particular model over another, including the uncertainty in their predictions.

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Separating the contributions of climate change and human activities to regional AET variability by using a developed analytical framework

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et al. 2020

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Modelling crop evapotranspiration and potential impacts on future water availability in the Indo-Gangetic Basin

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Ecosystem Service Valuation for a Critical Biodiversity Area: Case of the Mphaphuli Community, South Africa

Ecosystem Service Valuation for a Critical Biodiversity Area: Case of the Mphaphuli Community, South Africa

Challenges in Using Hydrology and Water Quality Models for Assessing Freshwater Ecosystem Services: A Review

Separating the contributions of climate change and human activities to regional AET variability by using a developed analytical framework

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