Using the Arctic water resources vulnerability index in assessing and responding to environmental change in Alaskan communities

Application of a Water Supply-Demand Balance Model to Set Priorities for Improvements in Water Supply Systems: A Case Study from the Koshi River Basin, Nepal

“…The advantage of the supply-demand model is to quantify the gap between water supply and demand, so the supply-driven and demand-driven factors separated from the vulnerability model were adjusted to match the demands of the supply-demand model. Based on a review of the literature, typical features of the study area, and data availability [12,16,18,20,[45][46][47][48][49][50], 7 indicators were selected to develop the DI, and 8 indicators were selected to construct the AI. The whole process consisted of four major steps: (A) All variables were first standardized, and the standardization approach was written as Equations ( 1) and ( 2).…”

“…Researchers developed the water vulnerability index (WVI) [13][14][15], which incorporates a wide range of natural and socioeconomic variables to assess water stress. The WVI is usually framed as an integration of a physical subindex (physical processes affecting water resources) and a social subindex (potential capital to adapt to changing water resources) [16]. Some researchers have defined water vulnerability as a more detailed component, including resource stress, ecosystem health, development pressure, and management capacity, for horizontal comparison [17].…”

A Micro-Scale Study of Flood Risk Assessment in Urban Fluvial Areas Using the Flood Potential Index

“…Concerning these issues, various methods are being offered by using geographical information system (GIS)-based model applications in order to solve flood risk assessments in large-scale studies (Singh, 2019;Song et al, 2017;Valencia et al, 2020; and the relationships to the position of the groundwater table (Al Adaileh et al, 2019;Freitas 2016;Nistor et al, 2019;Olaniyi Oke, 2018;Suryawan et al, 2019;Syarif et al, 2013;Wu et al, 2011). Another method is by using the water index in order to describe or analyze water-related problems (Tallar and Dhian, 2021;Nayak et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Williams et al, 2019;Tallar and Suen, 2015;Tallar and Suen, 2016). Therefore, many studies have also combined the water index with a GIS-based model (Kawo and Karuppannan, 2018;Taloor et al, 2020), and further studies developed a flood index by using a GIS based-model (Yang et al, 2017;.…”

What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?

“…These indicators would seek to document drinking water contaminants, waterborne diseases, per capita renewable water, accessibility of running water, and water safety plans that measure security of the entire distribution chain from raw water supply throughout the piping infrastructure (Nilsson et al 2013b;Larsen and Fondahl 2015). The past Swedish and U.S. chairmanships of the Arctic Council championed the development of water indicators and a water resources vulnerability index that focus on human health (Kliskey et al 2018;Williams et al 2018). Contributing to this work, the arctic water resources vulnerability index (AWRVI) helps communities assess risks to their water resources due to biophysical conditions and their socio-economic capacities to respond to those risks (Kliskey et al 2018).…”

“…Recent studies in Northern Alaska reveal how limited water supply and local development can result in greater community vulnerability (Williams et al 2018). Exacerbating existing water challenges, climate change will threaten many communities' water resources due to thawing permafrost and changes to the Arctic's water cycle (AMAP 2017a, b).…”