Water supply sustainability and adaptation strategies under anthropogenic and climatic changes of a meso-scale Mediterranean catchment

Collet, Lila; Ruelland, Denis; Estupina, Valérie Borrell; Dezetter, Alain; Servat, Éric

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.093

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“…Recent studies identify and quantify adaptive capacity in social-ecological resilience at different scales based on the quantitative assessment of focal control variables within a certain safe space (Pelling and High, 2005;Rockström et al, 2014;Steffen et al, 2015). Specifically, in order to identify a safe operating space for humanity on Earth, different studies present a set of indicators of capacity to adapt to variability and resilience about climate change (Brooks et al, 2005;Engle and Lemos, 2010;Falloon and Betts, 2010;Hobson and Niemeyer, 2011;García-López and Allué, 2011), coastal communities (Maldonado and Moreno-Sánchez, 2014;Aguilera et al, 2015), and water resource system (Eakin et al, 2010;Rockström et al, 2014;Collet et al, 2015). The theory is well developed in terms of resilience thinking, however, the question of how to evaluate a system's adaptive capacity is still open.…”

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Adaptive capacity based water quality resilience transformation and policy implications in rapidly urbanizing landscapes

Degener

Gaudreau

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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Adaptive capacity based water quality resilience transformation and policy implications in rapidly urbanizing landscapes

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Gaudreau

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Of course, when the metaphorical door is unlocked and opened, it is this wider framing which provides a clearer view of the whole system, one that is accessible to everyone along the breadth axis. For example, modeling the impact of glacier variation on water resources (as in Gao et al, 2018) necessarily excludes the numerous other influences on water resources (e.g., anthropogenic interactions as in Collet et al, 2015). No single method can be expected to “do it all.” Discipline‐specific models are able to navigate Obstacle 2 at the expense of 1, 3, and 4.…”

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Urban Systems: Mapping Interdependencies and Outcomes to Support Systems Thinking

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This paper argues that urban systems issues are design problems on a grand scale and that various disciplines aiming to address them can have only a partial view of the problem. It is necessary to draw boundaries around the detailed analyses of specific issues, but a way to map the wider system, to contextualize and more deeply understand how they are interrelated, is still lacking. Four complexity obstacles related to reasoning about complex systems are in our way, and to our knowledge no existing approach navigates them effectively. We propose a tool called the Abstraction Hierarchy as a way to do just this, in order to frame complex issues on a large scale, in a way accessible to all disciplines. To demonstrate the power of this systems model, the Abstraction Hierarchy is applied to an urban area. Through its application we demonstrate its capability to navigate all four obstacles and investigate previously unexplored space in urban systems research.

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“…Afterward, sustainability and relative sustainability [45,47] were proposed. These indicators have been applied in the evaluation of water resource systems and are two of the most popular [15,45,[49][50][51][52]. We applied these criteria for the proposed indices (Section 2.5.1).…”

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The Assessment of Sustainability Indexes and Climate Change Impacts on Integrated Water Resource Management

Hernández-Bedolla¹,

Solera²,

Paredes-Arquiola³

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Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is facing great challenges due to growing uncertainties caused by climate change (CC), rapid socio-economic and technological changes, and population growth. In the present study, we have developed different indices to assess the availability of water using an IWRM approach. These indices evaluate supply to demands, surface availability, groundwater availability, reservoirs, and environmental flow. Moreover, reliability, resilience, and vulnerability were determined. Sustainability index (SI) and sustainability index by groups (SG) were determined based on the five indices (all indices vary from 0 to 1). The impacts of climate change affect surface and groundwater availability, as do the agricultural, urban, and industrial requirements on the different supplies. We used the generalized AQUATOOL Decision Support System Shell (DSSS) to evaluate the IWRM in the Rio Grande Basin (Morelia, México). Various emission scenarios from representative concentration pathways (RCPs) were applied to the basin for the years 2015-2039 and 2075-2099. The results indicate increases in agricultural and urban demand, and decreases in surface runoff, as well as groundwater recharge. The proposed indices are useful for different approaches (decision-makers, water policy, and drought risks, among others). CC significantly affects the different proposed indices and indicates a decrease of the SI, SG 1 , and SG 2 (i.e., less availability). For example, we found that SG 2 decreased from 0.812 to 0.195 under the RCP 8.

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Water supply sustainability and adaptation strategies under anthropogenic and climatic changes of a meso-scale Mediterranean catchment

Cited by 52 publications

References 46 publications

Adaptive capacity based water quality resilience transformation and policy implications in rapidly urbanizing landscapes

Adaptive capacity based water quality resilience transformation and policy implications in rapidly urbanizing landscapes

Urban Systems: Mapping Interdependencies and Outcomes to Support Systems Thinking

The Assessment of Sustainability Indexes and Climate Change Impacts on Integrated Water Resource Management

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