Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands

L Piemontese, S Terzi, G Di Baldassarre… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, causing
water shortages, famines, migration and fatalities. The construction of new small water …

Exploring the water–food nexus reveals the interlinkages with urban human conflicts in Central America

M Sardo, I Epifani, P D'Odorico, N Galli, MC Rulli - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Hydroclimatic extremes have been shown to enhance conflict in fragile societies.
Quantitative research in this field has historically focused on rainfall anomalies, without …

Looking for Theory‐Practice Synthesis for Actionable Outcomes: A Continuing Special Collection for Translational Water Research

S Islam, TH Illangasekare, J Selker… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Translational research (TR) represents a promising systematic process for going from
scientific discoveries to practical applications. Through conversations with academics …

Multi-disciplinary strategy to optimize irrigation efficiency in irrigated agriculture

A Batisha - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Equilibrium among water, food, energy, and climate actions is necessary for life to exist,
quality, and sustainability. This article explored how to ensure sustainability, and equilibrium …

Understanding links between water scarcity and violent conflicts in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin using the water footprint concept

E Nkiaka, RG Bryant, Z Kom - Earth's Future, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst there are several empirical studies linking water scarcity and violent conflicts, existing
quantitative studies use mostly climate and environmental variables even though such …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape pattern optimization of small watershed based on water purification (Danjiangkou reservoir area, China)

B Ma, K Sun, X Wang, J Liu, G Zhang, P Wang… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, landscape pattern optimization has been regarded as a cutting-edge
science in various fields, and basin hydrology is no exception. Its effect on basin water …

Global and Cluster Structural Balance via a Priority Strategy Based Memetic Algorithm

Y Sun, Z Liu, Y Jin, X Sun, Y Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Structural balance in signed networks aims to search for the structure with the least
imbalance of relationships. However, most existing studies focus on global structural …

Water and Us: tales and hands-on laboratories to educate about sustainable and nonconflictual water resources management

F Munerol, F Avanzi, E Panizza… - Geoscience …, 2024 - gc.copernicus.org
Climate change and water security are among the grand challenges of the 21st century, but
literacy on these matters among high-school students is often unsystematic and/or detached …

A Blue Water Scarcity‐Based Method for Hydrologically Sustainable Agricultural Expansion Design

N Galli, DD Chiarelli, L Ricciardi… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable development and intergenerational responsibility entail the prudent use of
natural resources. Water availability can constrain agriculture, a key sector in terms of …

Over-reliance on water infrastructure erodes the resilience of drylands pastoralists

G Di Baldassarre, L Piemontese, S Terzi… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, causing
water shortages, famines, migration, and fatalities. The construction of new small water …