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publications-1773
Type:
Peer reviewed articles
Year:
2022
Authors:
Andrew Orr, Bashir Ahmad, Undala Alam, ArivudaiNambi Appadurai, Zareen P.Bharucha, Hester Biemans, Tobias Bolch, Narayan P. Chaulagain, Sanita Dhaubanjar, A.P. Dimri, Harry Dixon, Hayley J. Fowler, Giovanna Gioli, Sarah J. Halvorson, Abid Hussain, Ghulam Jeelani, Simi Kamal, Imran S. Khalid, Shiyin Liu, Arthur Lutz, Meeta K. Mehra, Evan Miles, Andrea Momblanch, Veruska Muccione, Aditi Mukherji, Da
Title:
Knowledge priorities on climate change and water in the Upper Indus Basin: a horizon scanning exercise to identify the top 100 research questions in social and natural sciences
Venue/Journal:
Earth's Future
DOI:
10.1029/2021ef002619
Research type:
IoT & Sensors
Water System:
Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Abstract:
AbstractRiver systems originating from the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) are dominated by runoff from snow and glacier melt and summer monsoonal rainfall. These water resources are highly stressed as huge populations of people living in this region depend on them, including for agriculture, domestic use, and energy production. Projections suggest that the UIB region will be affected by considerable (yet poorly quantified) changes to the seasonality and composition of runoff in the future, which are likely to have considerable impacts on these supplies. Given how directly and indirectly communities and ecosystems are dependent on these resources and the growing pressure on them due to everâincreasing demands, the impacts of climate change pose considerable adaptation challenges. The strong linkages between hydroclimate, cryosphere, water resources, and human activities within the UIB suggest that a multiâ and interâdisciplinary research approach integrating the social and natural/environmental sciences is critical for successful adaptation to ongoing and future hydrological and climate change. Here we use a horizon scanning technique to identify the Top 100 questions related to the most pressing knowledge gaps and research priorities in social and natural sciences on climate change and water in the UIB. These questions are on the margins of current thinking and investigation and are clustered into 14 themes, covering three overarching topics of âgovernance, policy, and sustainable solutionsâ, âsocioeconomic processes and livelihoodsâ, and âintegrated Earth System processesâ. Raising awareness of these cuttingâedge knowledge gaps and opportunities will hopefully encourage researchers, funding bodies, practitioners, and policy makers to address them.
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