Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin
Water, food, energy, and the ecosystems they depend on interact with each other in highly complex and interlinked ways. These interdependencies can be traced particularly well in the context of a river basin, which is delineated by hydrological boundaries. The interactions are shaped by humans inter...
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American Geophysical Union
2018
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| author | Yang, Jie Yang, Y.C. Ethan Khan, Hassaan F. Xie, Hua Ringler, Claudia |
| author_browse | Khan, Hassaan F. Ringler, Claudia Xie, Hua Yang, Jie Yang, Y.C. Ethan |
| author_facet | Yang, Jie Yang, Y.C. Ethan Khan, Hassaan F. Xie, Hua Ringler, Claudia |
| author_sort | Yang, Jie |
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| description | Water, food, energy, and the ecosystems they depend on interact with each other in highly complex and interlinked ways. These interdependencies can be traced particularly well in the context of a river basin, which is delineated by hydrological boundaries. The interactions are shaped by humans interacting with nature, and as such, a river basin can be characterized as a complex, coupled socioecological system. The Niger River Basin in West Africa is such a system, where water infrastructure development to meet growing water, food, and energy demands may threaten a productive and vulnerable basin ecosystem. These dynamic interactions remain poorly understood. Trade‐off analyses between different sectors and at different spatial scales are needed to support solution‐oriented policy analysis, particularly in transboundary basins. This study assesses the impact of climate and human/anthropogenic changes on the water, energy, food, and ecosystem sectors and characterizes the resulting trade‐offs through a set of generic metrics related to the sustainability of water availability. Results suggest that dam development can mitigate negative impacts from climate change on hydropower generation and also on ecosystem health to some extent. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1021072025-02-24T06:48:59Z Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin Yang, Jie Yang, Y.C. Ethan Khan, Hassaan F. Xie, Hua Ringler, Claudia resilience reliability sustainability water availability water management energy crop production water power niger river vulnerability agent‐based models Water, food, energy, and the ecosystems they depend on interact with each other in highly complex and interlinked ways. These interdependencies can be traced particularly well in the context of a river basin, which is delineated by hydrological boundaries. The interactions are shaped by humans interacting with nature, and as such, a river basin can be characterized as a complex, coupled socioecological system. The Niger River Basin in West Africa is such a system, where water infrastructure development to meet growing water, food, and energy demands may threaten a productive and vulnerable basin ecosystem. These dynamic interactions remain poorly understood. Trade‐off analyses between different sectors and at different spatial scales are needed to support solution‐oriented policy analysis, particularly in transboundary basins. This study assesses the impact of climate and human/anthropogenic changes on the water, energy, food, and ecosystem sectors and characterizes the resulting trade‐offs through a set of generic metrics related to the sustainability of water availability. Results suggest that dam development can mitigate negative impacts from climate change on hydropower generation and also on ecosystem health to some extent. 2018-09 2019-07-09T08:01:32Z 2019-07-09T08:01:32Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102107 en https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202018302001 https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1956231 Open Access American Geophysical Union Yang, Jie; Yang, Y.C. Ethan; Khan, Hassaan F.; Xie, Hua; Ringler, Claudia; et al. 2018. Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin. Earth's Future 6(9): 1292-1310. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF000923 |
| spellingShingle | resilience reliability sustainability water availability water management energy crop production water power niger river vulnerability agent‐based models Yang, Jie Yang, Y.C. Ethan Khan, Hassaan F. Xie, Hua Ringler, Claudia Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin |
| title | Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin |
| title_full | Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin |
| title_fullStr | Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin |
| title_short | Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin |
| title_sort | quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water food energy ecosystem nexus in the niger river basin |
| topic | resilience reliability sustainability water availability water management energy crop production water power niger river vulnerability agent‐based models |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102107 |
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