scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities in the Operationalization of the Water-Environment-Energy-Food (WE2F) Nexus: Case Study of the Upper Niger Basin and Inner Niger Delta, West Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Ousmane Seidou ◽  
Fatoumata Maiga ◽  
Claudia Ringler ◽  
Spela Kalcic ◽  
Luca Ferrini
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

The ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natural resources worldwide, often leading to environmental degradation that, in turn, affect water, food, and energy security. The recognition of the complex interlinkages between multiple sectors has led to the creation of various holistic approaches to environmental decision making such as Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Virtual Water (VW), Water Footprint (WF) and lately the Food-EnergyEnvironment-Water nexus (WE2F). All these approaches aim to increase resource use efficiency and promote sustainability by increasing the cooperation between traditionally disjoint sectors, and mainly differ by the number and relative weights of the sectors included in their framework. They also suffer from the same face and the same barriers for implementation, some of which may never be fully overcome. The paper discusses the benefits of adopting a WE2F nexus approach in the Upper Niger Basin (UNB) and the Inner Niger Delta (IND), but also the multiple difficulties associated with its practical implementation. IWRM/WE2F initiatives in the UNB/IND such as the BAMGIRE project piloted by Wetlands International and funded by the Dutch Embassy in Mali to secure livelihoods and biodiversity in a changing environment, is taken as an example of partial success in the use of a nexus approach to watershed management. It was shown there are multiple barriers to the operational implementation of the WE2F. However, while a full understanding of all interlinkage between sectors may never be possible, data collection, scientific research and model development can improve our ability to understand the complex system in which we live, and hence take better decisions

scholarly journals Evolving water science in the Anthropocene

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 7619-7649 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. G. Savenije ◽  
A. Y. Hoekstra ◽  
P. van der Zaag
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Water System ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Water Value ◽  
Value Flow

Abstract. This paper reviews the changing relation between man and water since the industrial revolution, the period that has been called the Anthropocene because of the unprecedented scale at which humans have altered the planet. We show how the rapidly changing reality urges us to continuously improve our understanding of the complex interactions between man and the water system. The paper starts with demonstrating that hydrology and the science of water resources management have played key roles in human and economic development throughout history; yet these roles have often been marginalised or obscured. Knowledge on hydrology and water resources engineering and management helped to transform the landscape, and thus also the very hydrology within catchments itself. It is only fairly recent that water experts have become self-conscious of such mechanisms, exemplified by several concepts that try to internalise them (integrated water resources management, eco-hydrology, socio-hydrology). We have reached a stage where a more systemic understanding of scale interdependencies can inform the sustainable governance of water systems, using new concepts like precipitationsheds, virtual water transfers, water footprint and water value flow.

scholarly journals Application of DMAIC Process Improvement Methodology as an Instrument for Integrated Water Resources Management in Protected Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Natural Protected Areas

A significant part of the Sochi resort region is included into the unique natural protected areas, such as the Caucasus biosphere reserve and Sochi National Park. Development of the regional economy is largely dependent on the natural geo/bio/cenoses management effectiveness on the protected territories. Monitoring of the water resources status and their management is of the particular importance, since the biodiversity of the aquatic environment and the terrestrial flora and fauna of the area dependent on these factors, as well as ensuring the citizen’s requirements and rights. However, presently no one of the existing water environment state assessment methods is able to account various and complex natural communities’ responses to different stress factors and their combined impact.The article presents the world experience on concept of the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) application and development of the some aspect of the comprehensive natural resources regulation methodology. The authors believe that some elements of environmental management practiced in national parks and reserves of the republic of South Africa can be applicable in development of a system that provides consistent monitoring of environmental quality, the mastering of a sufficient and user-friendly database, based on a set of measures for the conservation and restoration of natural resources One of the most significant watercourses of the protected nature territories of the South of Russia, the Mzymta River has been used as a study case

scholarly journals Rights transfers in Madagascar biodiversity policies: achievements and significance

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 825-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTINE ANTONA ◽  
ESTELLE MOTTE BIÉNABE ◽  
JEAN-MICHEL SALLES ◽  
GÉRALDINE PÉCHARD ◽  
SIGRID AUBERT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Delegation Of Authority ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Shed Light

Decentralization and people's participation have been key features of government environmental policy since the 1990s. In Madagascar, the policy of Secured Local Management of Natural Resources, known as the GELOSE act, has created a framework for the transfer of rights from central government to local communities. This article analyses the practical implementation of this policy by focusing on the nature of the rights transferred and on the nature of the contracts and incentives developed. The Aghion and Tirole model for allocation of formal and real authority in an organization is used to shed light on the contractual definition process and on the trade-offs between giving responsibilities to local communities and losing control over natural resources management. It is shown that a congruence of interests between the parties is crucial for effective delegation of authority to local communities and that this congruence may emerge in relation to the transfer of exclusion rights.

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