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Year: 2017


Developing GIS databases to work with Disaster Management

Year: 2017

Collections: Scientific Publications

Topics: Water, Climate

Authors: Sagintayev J.M., Kerimkulov Zhandos

Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

Source: Central Asian Journal of Water Research


Future bottlenecks in international river basins: where transboundary institutions, population growth and hydrological variability intersect

Year: 2017

Collections: Research Paper

Topics: Water, Transboundary cooperation

Authors: Marloes H.N. Bakker, James A. Duncan

Countries:

Source: Water International

Using global data, this article examines the nexus of transboundary flood events and future social vulnerability. Which international river basins are forecast to experience an increase in both hydrological variability and population in the future, but currently lack institutional provisions to deal with these shared events?



Adapting Agricultural Water Use to Climate Change in a Post-Soviet Context: Challenges and Opportunities in Southeast Kazakhstan

Year: 2017

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Topics: Water governance Climate, IWRM, Irrigation,

Authors: Tristam Barrett, Giuseppe Feola, Marina Khusnitdinova, Viktoria Krylova

Countries: Kazakhstan

Source: Human Ecology

The convergence of climate change and post-Soviet socio-economic and institutional transformations has been underexplored so far, as have the consequences of such convergence on crop agriculture in Central Asia. This paper provides a place-based analysis of constraints and opportunities for adaptation to climate change, with a specific focus on water use, in two districts in southeast Kazakhstan.






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