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Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin

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Title Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin
 
Creator Yang, Jie
Yang, Y.C. Ethan
Khan, Hassaan F.
Xie, Hua
Ringler, Claudia
 
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.
 
Date 2018
2019-07-09T08:01:32Z
2019-07-09T08:01:32Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier 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
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102107
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018EF000923
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF000923
Variability, Risks and Competing Uses
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; Non-commercial use only
Open Access
 
Format 6(9): 1292-1310
 
Source Earth's Future