Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

A Wasti, P Ray, S Wi, C Folch… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

[HTML][HTML] Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa

C Siderius, SR Kolusu, MC Todd, A Bhave, AJ Dougill… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
The need to assess major infrastructure performance under a changing climate is widely
recognized yet rarely practiced, particularly in rapidly growing African economies. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Stakeholder-guided, model-based scenarios for a climate-and water-smart electricity transition in Ghana and Burkina Faso

H Hoff, M Ogeya, D de Condappa, RJ Brecha… - Energy Strategy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In support of West Africa's potential energy transition under climate change, an
international team of scientists and a wide range of local stakeholders in Ghana and Burkina …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating climate-smart agriculture as route to building climate resilience in African food systems

AJ Dougill, TDG Hermans, S Eze, P Antwi-Agyei… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Efforts to meet the growing demand for food across Africa have led to unsustainable land
management practices that weaken the resilience of African Food Systems. Soil health is …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of projected climate impacts to climate model weighting: multi-sector analysis in eastern Africa

SR Kolusu, C Siderius, MC Todd, A Bhave, D Conway… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Uncertainty in long-term projections of future climate can be substantial and presents a
major challenge to climate change adaptation planning. This is especially so for projections …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigating water shortage via hydrological modeling in old and new cultivated lands west of the Nile in Egypt

AM Badr, F Abdelradi, A Negm, EM Ramadan - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions are increasingly concerned about water
scarcity. Egypt, one of the arid MENA nations that relies primarily on Nile water, faces a …

Water level change of lakes and sinkholes in Central Turkey under anthropogenic effects

V Demir, AÜ Keskin - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020 - Springer
Determining water level changes in lakes is significant for sustainable water supply
planning, flood control, water resource management, and economic development with …

Stress-testing development pathways under a changing climate: water-energy-food security in the lake Malawi-Shire river system

AG Bhave, D Conway, S Dessai… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Malawi depends on Lake Malawi outflows into the Shire River for its water, energy and food
(WEF) security. We explore future WEF security risks under the combined impacts of climate …

The Elephant Marsh, Malawi–Part 1: reconstruction of the historic hydromorphology

AL Birkhead, CA Brown, H Bukhari… - African Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Elephant Marsh lies on the floodplain of the lower Shire River, in southern Malawi. It is
both a cultivated, seasonal floodplain and an area of permanent shallow lakes. The marsh is …

[HTML][HTML] Susceptibility of water resources and hydropower production to climate change in the tropics: the case of Lake Malawi and Shire River Basins, SE Africa

L Mtilatila, A Bronstert, P Shrestha, P Kadewere… - Hydrology, 2020 - mdpi.com
The sensitivity of key hydrologic variables and hydropower generation to climate change in
the Lake Malawi and Shire River basins is assessed. The study adapts the mesoscale …