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Powlen KA, Haider S, Davis KW, Burkardt N, Shah S, Romañach SS, Andersen ME. An integrated framework for examining groundwater vulnerability in the Mekong River Delta region. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0292991. [PMID: 37862329 PMCID: PMC10588840 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023] Open
Abstract
The Mekong River provides water, food security, and many other valuable benefits to the more than 60 million Southeast Asian residents living within its basin. However, the Mekong River Basin is increasingly stressed by changes in climate, land cover, and infrastructure. These changes can affect water quantity and quality and exacerbate related hazards such as land subsidence and saltwater intrusion, resulting in multiple compounding risks for neighboring communities. In this study, we demonstrate the connection between climate change, groundwater availability, and social vulnerability by linking the results of a numerical groundwater model to land cover and socioeconomic data at the Cambodia-Vietnam border in the Mekong River Delta region. We simulated changes in groundwater availability across 20 years and identified areas of potential water stress based on domestic and agriculture-related freshwater demands. We then assessed adaptive capacity to understand how communities may be able to respond to this stress to better understand the growing risk of groundwater scarcity driven by climate change and overextraction. This study offers a novel approach for assessing risk of groundwater scarcity by linking the effects of climate change to the socioeconomic context in which they occur. Increasing our understanding of how changes in groundwater availability may affect local populations can help water managers better plan for the future, leading to more resilient communities.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kathryn A. Powlen
- U.S. Geological Survey, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center, Austin, TX, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Davie, FL, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Nevada Water Science Center, Carson City, NV, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Office of International Programs, Reston, VA, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center, Austin, TX, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Davie, FL, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Office of International Programs, Reston, VA, United States of America
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Clifford KR, Yung L, Travis WR, Rondeau R, Neely B, Rangwala I, Burkardt N, Wyborn C. Navigating Climate Adaptation on Public Lands: How Views on Ecosystem Change and Scale Interact with Management Approaches. Environ Manage 2020; 66:614-628. [PMID: 32728791 PMCID: PMC7522104 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-020-01336-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Managers are increasingly being asked to integrate climate change adaptation into public land management. The literature discusses a range of adaptation approaches, including managing for resistance, resilience, and transformation; but many strategies have not yet been widely tested. This study employed in-depth interviews and scenario-based focus groups in the Upper Gunnison Basin in Colorado to learn how public land managers envision future ecosystem change, and how they plan to utilize different management approaches in the context of climate adaptation. While many managers evoked the past in thinking about projected climate impacts and potential responses, most managers in this study acknowledged and even embraced (if reluctantly) that many ecosystems will experience regime shifts in the face of climate change. However, accepting that future ecosystems will be different from past ecosystems led managers in different directions regarding how to respond and the appropriate role of management intervention. Some felt management actions should assist and even guide ecosystems toward future conditions. Others were less confident in projections and argued against transformation. Finally, some suggested that resilience could provide a middle path, allowing managers to help ecosystems adapt to change without predicting future ecosystem states. Scalar challenges and institutional constraints also influenced how managers thought about adaptation. Lack of institutional capacity was believed to constrain adaptation at larger scales. Resistance, in particular, was considered impractical at almost any scale due to institutional constraints. Managers negotiated scalar challenges and institutional constraints by nesting different approaches both spatially and temporally.
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- Katherine R Clifford
- USGS-Fort Collins Science Center, Social and Economic Analysis Branch, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
- Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
- North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Boulder, CO, USA.
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- Department of Society and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Boulder, CO, USA
- Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Colorado Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Boulder, CO, USA
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- USGS-Fort Collins Science Center, Social and Economic Analysis Branch, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Society and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
- Institute for Water Futures, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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McGarr A, Bekins B, Burkardt N, Dewey J, Earle P, Ellsworth W, Ge S, Hickman S, Holland A, Majer E, Rubinstein J, Sheehan A. Geophysics. Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection. Science 2015; 347:830-1. [PMID: 25700505 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- A McGarr
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
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- USGS, National Water Quality Assessment Program, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- USGS, Powell Center, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
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- USGS, Geologic Hazards Center, Golden, CO 80225, USA
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- USGS, Geologic Hazards Center, Golden, CO 80225, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, OK 73069, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
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Drechsler S, Burkardt N, Albers A, Butenko V, Walter B. Erhebung der Bedarfssituation und Herausforderungen der Normung und Standardisierung Vom Maschinen- und Anlagenbau bis zur Bioproduktion. CHEM-ING-TECH 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.201450668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Recent attention has focused on resource management initiatives at the watershed scale with emphasis on collaborative, locally driven, and decentralized institutional arrangements. Existing literature on limited selections of well-established watershed-based organizations has provided valuable insights. The current research extends this focus by including a broad survey of watershed organizations from across the United States as a means to estimate a national portrait. Organizational characteristics include year of formation, membership size and composition, budget, guiding principles, and mechanisms of decision-making. These characteristics and the issue concerns of organizations are expected to vary with respect to location. Because this research focuses on organizations that are place based and stakeholder driven, the forces driving them are expected to differ across regions of the country. On this basis of location, we suggest basic elements for a regional assessment of watershed organizations to channel future research and to better approximate the organizational dynamics, issue concerns, and information needs unique to organizations across the country. At the broadest level, the identification of regional patterns or organizational similarities may facilitate the linkage among organizations to coordinate their actions at the much broader river basin or ecosystem scale.
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- Brad T Clark
- Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1782, USA
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