Towards an inter-disciplinary research agenda on climate change, water and security in Southern Europe and neighboring countries

Ludwig, Ralf; Roson, Roberto; Zografos, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2011.04.003

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“…The combination of decreasing precipitation and increasing temperature, and thus increasing potential evapotranspiration (PET), may have a relevant impact on regional hydrological regimes (e.g. Wang et al 2012) and water resources (Ludwig et al 2011). At the same time, land cover changes in the region are increasing the pressure on water resources, mainly because of the increase in vegetation (forests and shrublands), irrigated surfaces and human water demands .…”

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Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study in Catalonia, Spain

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Hydrological Sciences Journal

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confidence: 99%

“…Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Bates et al 2008, Ludwig et al 2011, showing a warming rate higher than the global rate of almost 1ºC for the last century (Martin-Vide et al 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study in Catalonia, Spain

Pascual

Plá

López-Bustins

et al. 2015

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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“…Ludwig et al 2011;Tir and Stinnett 2012;Böhmelt et al 2014;Kuzdas and Wiek 2014;Selby and Hoffmann 2014;Ide 2015) indicates both good agreement in terms of the utility of our indicators in understanding climate variability and water conflict links and a prospect to expand the indicators as data for other conflict-torn portions of the Lake become available.…”

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“…Water has remained a key element in the literature given its characteristic feature as a resource worth fighting for (Cook and Bakker 2012), e.g. when power relations and ineffective water governance affect water sharing, particularly where rivers flow across state boundaries (Ludwig et al 2011).…”

Section: Framing Climate Conflict Vulnerability In Waterlimited Envirmentioning

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Using a novel climate–water conflict vulnerability index to capture double exposures in Lake Chad

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Climate variability is amongst an array of threats facing agricultural livelihoods, with its effects unevenly distributed. With resource conflict being increasingly recognised as one significant outcome of climate variability and change, understanding the underlying drivers that shape differential vulnerabilities in areas that are double-exposed to climate and conflict has great significance. Climate change vulnerability frameworks are rarely applied in water conflict research. This article presents a composite climatewater conflict vulnerability index based on a double exposure framework developed from advances in vulnerability and livelihood assessments. We apply the index to assess how the determinants of vulnerability can be useful in understanding climate variability and water conflict interactions and to establish how knowledge of the climateconflict linked context can shape interventions to reduce vulnerability. We surveyed 240 resource users (farmers, fishermen and pastoralists) in seven villages on the southeastern shores of Lake Chad in the Republic of Chad to collect data on a range of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity variables. Results suggest that pastoralists are more vulnerable in terms of climate-structured aggressive behaviour within a lake-based livelihoods context where all resource user groups show similar levels of exposure to climate variability. Our approach can be used to understand the human and environmental security components of vulnerability to climate change and to explore ways in which conflict-structured climate adaptation and climate-sensitive conflict management strategies can be integrated to reduce the vulnerability of populations in high-risk, conflict-prone environments.

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“…Additionally, it is also difficult for research planners to assign applied science research projects to prioritized technologies of their research-funding organization manually (Ludwig, Roson, Zografos, & Kallis, 2011). Therefore, in this paper, we present an automated approach based on text classification that supports researchers as well as research-funding planners by the identification of relationships between applied science research projects and technologies extracted from lists or taxonomies.…”

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Technology classification with latent semantic indexing

Thorleuchter

Poel

2013

Expert Systems with Applications

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Many national and international governments establish organizations for applied science research funding. For this, several organizations have defined procedures for identifying relevant projects that based on prioritized technologies. Even for applied science research projects, which combine several technologies it is difficult to identify all corresponding technologies of all research-funding organizations. In this paper, we present an approach to support researchers and to support research-funding planners by classifying applied science research projects according to corresponding technologies of research-funding organizations. In contrast to related work, this problem is solved by considering results from literature concerning the application based technological relationships and by creating a new approach that is based on latent semantic indexing (LSI) as semantic text classification algorithm. Technologies that occur together in the process of creating an application are grouped in classes, semantic textual patterns are identified as representative for each class, and projects are assigned to one of these classes. This enables the assignment of each project to all technologies semantically grouped by use of LSI. This approach is evaluated using the example of defense and security based technological research. This is because the growing importance of this application field leads to an increasing number of research projects and to the appearance of many new technologies.

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Towards an inter-disciplinary research agenda on climate change, water and security in Southern Europe and neighboring countries

Cited by 82 publications

References 52 publications

Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study in Catalonia, Spain

Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study in Catalonia, Spain

Using a novel climate–water conflict vulnerability index to capture double exposures in Lake Chad

Technology classification with latent semantic indexing

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