A5014449194- Water resources management and optimization
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Water Resources and Sustainability
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- International Development and Aid
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Agricultural risk and resilience
Southern Cross University
2013-2025
University of Oxford
2009-2017
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2010
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2001-2009
Norsk Hydro (Germany)
2003
Natural Environment Research Council
2001
Environment and Climate Change Canada
1997
Rampton Hospital
1989
Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use management. This constrains humanity’s ability to protect our planet’s life-sustaining functions. The substantial body of research we review reveals that forest, interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, cooling terrestrial surfaces distributing resources. Forests trees must be recognized as prime regulators...
The article details the development and uses of water poverty index (WPI). was developed as a holistic tool to measure stress at household community levels, designed aid national decision makers, central government level, well donor agencies, determine priority needs for interventions in sector. combines into single number cluster data directly indirectly relevant stress. Subcomponents include measures of: access water; quantity, quality variability; (domestic, food, productive purposes);...
It is known that climate impacts can have significant effects on the environment, societies and economies. For human populations, change be devastating, giving rise to economic disruption mass migration as agricultural systems fail, either through drought or floods. Such events impact significantly, not only where they happen, but also in neighbouring areas. Vulnerability of needs assessed, so adaptation strategies developed populations protected. In this paper, we address issue...
Degradation of freshwater ecosystems and the services they provide is a primary cause increasing water insecurity, raising need for integrated solutions to management. While methods characterizing multi-faceted challenges managing abound, tend emphasize either social or ecological dimensions fall short being truly integrative. This paper suggests that management sustainability systems needs consider linkages between human uses, governance. We present conceptualization resources as part an...
Abstract The Water Poverty Index is an integrated tool developed on the basis of extensive consultation with a range scientists, practitioners and policymakers. It primarily designed for use at community level to enable more holistic water-resource assessments site-specific basis. can however be applied different scales suit needs. One motivations design such was attempt move away from conventional, purely deterministic, approaches water assessment, relying models large-scale data. In...
Forests and trees are key to solving water availability problems in the face of climate change achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A recent global assessment forest science posed question: How do forests matter for water? Here we synthesize from that assessment, which shows an integrated system. We assert forests, tops their canopies base soils rooted, must be considered a component complex temporal spatial dimensions hydrologic cycle. While it is clear influence both...
Abstract One of the most significant failures in development process has been our inability to match water demand its supply. For a large portion world's population, this meant lack provision adequate for domestic use, resulting loss time and effort, especially on part women. While science can now provide us with detailed assessments resource availability, little date done link knowledge human resources their geographical distributions. In order manage these better, it is essential that they...
Synopsis Sclerocarya birrea (marula) is a widespread species throughout the semi-arid, deciduous savannas of much sub-Saharan Africa. It widely used by rural populations in most countries which it found. has multiple uses, including fruits, kernels, oil, bark, wood and leaves. Because these its significance landscape, several African cultures have specific beliefs ceremonies associated with this species, often maintained homestead arable plots. occurrence, potentially high fruit production...
The Water Poverty Index (WPI), introduced by Sullivan, is an inter-disciplinary tool that integrates the key issues relating to water resources, combining physical, social, economic and environmental information associated with people's ability get access use for productive purposes. It most relevant at community or sub-basin scales. This paper concerned not development underlying methodology of index, but how it can best be applied in practice generate useful data, then these data may used...