• How can a secondary coastal city in Cambodia be better prepared for climate change and natural disaster risks? 

  Yin, Soriya; Ngin, Chanrith; Heng, Naret (2018)

  This policy brief discusses the readiness of Khemarak Phumin city in Koh Kong province (Cambodia) to cope with impacts of climate change and natural disasters. It provides policy recommendations derived from study findings. ...
• Mudanças climáticas no estuário Amazônico 

  Zeidemann, Vivian; Almeida, Oriana; Rivero, Sergio; Thomas, Shaji (NAEA Editora, 2015)

  O efeito da variabilidade e das mudanças climáticas sobre as populações costeiras estuarinas amazônicas é um fato que vem sendo estudado e observado por uma equipe de pesquisadores da Universidade Federal do Pará, no Brasil, ...
• Arrastrando la montaña hacia el mar : hacia dónde van nuestros océanos 

  Restrepo, Juan Dario (Agenda del Mar, Colombia, 2017)

  Colombia, país de dos mares, el segundo más biodiverso del planeta y en el top 10 de los más ricos en agua dulce. No obstante, esa riqueza en recursos naturales pareciera escurrirse de las manos debido a las malas prácticas ...
• Role of social capital in climate adaptation of fish-pond farmers in northern region of Thailand 

  Kengkaj, Weerakan (Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2014-10)

  This in-depth study explores (1) the vulnerability of fish farming households to climate-related and socio-economic risks (2) their adaptive capacities in coping with risks, and (3) the role of social capital. It argues ...
• Mobility of fish cage farmers as a response to climate-related and socio-economic risks 

  Sin-ampol, Phaothai (Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2014-09)

  Most households in upstream and downstream villages are affected by moderate to high risks, while midstream villages encounter moderate-low risks. Data was collected in the summer period, the first rainy peak, second rainy ...
• Effects of season and elevation on chlorophyll and phytoplankton composition in Tilapia ponds in Northern Thailand [Thai language] 

  Kunlasak, Kornkanok (Maejo University, Nong Han, Thailand, 2014-05)
• Impact of land use and vegetation cover on risks of erosion in the Ourika Watershed (Morocco) 

  Modeste, Meliho; Abdellatif, Khattabi; Nadia, Mhammdi; Zhang, Hongming (AJER, 2016)

  Results of mapping demonstrated significant erosion in the Ourika watershed. Soil loss below the tolerance level (<7 t/ha/year) represented only 4% of the area. The objective was to map the risks of water erosion using the ...
• Promoviendo la aplicación de la Información Climática e Hidrológica y su Traducción en las Políticas, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá, 6-8 de octubre 2015 : reporte de taller 

  Waagsaether, Katinka; Cull, Tracy; Vincent, Katharine (2015)
• Advancing the application of climate and hydrological information and its translation into policy, Panama City, Panama, 6-9 October 2015 : workshop report 

  Waagsaether, Katinka; Cull, Tracy; Vincent, Katharine (2015)

  Targeting country teams of modellers, principal investigators (PIs) and policy-makers from International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-funded Climate Change and Water projects in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, ...
• Flooding in the suburbs of Dakar : impacts on the assets and adaptation strategies of households or communities 

  Cissé, Oumar; Sèye, Moustapha (International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2015)

  Since 2005, Senegal has experienced severe and recurrent flooding. In Pikine, the most populous suburb of Dakar, the 2009 floods affected a third of the population. The government mobilized major investment for drainage ...
• Ecohydrology of ecosystem transitions : a meta-analysis 

  Viglizzo, Ernesto F.; Nosetto, Marcelo D.; Jobbágy, Esteban G.; Ricard, M. Florencia; Frank, Federico C. (John Wiley & Sons, 2014)

  A vast body of literature demonstrated that anthropogenic disturbances such as overgrazing and fire are key drivers of abrupt transition between vegetation types in ecosystems. In this study, we propose that the hydrological ...
• Charcoal production in the Dry Chaco: Where, how and who? 

  Vanezza Rueda, Carla; Baldi, Germán; Gasparri, Ignacio; Jobbágy, Esteban G. (Elsevier, 2015)

  Charcoal production has been widespread in the past and is still common where poor societies and dry forests coexist. For the Dry Chaco in South America, one of the largest remaining dry forests of the world, we describe ...
• Higher water-table levels and flooding risk under grain vs. livestock production systems in the subhumid plains of the Pampas 

  Nosetto, M.D.; Paez, R.A.; Ballesteros, S.I.; Jobbagy, E.G. (2014)

  Although the strong influence of vegetation shaping the hydrological cycle is increasingly recognized, the effects of land-use changes in very flat regions (i.e. hyperplains, regional slope < 0.1%) are less understood in ...
• What does it take to flood the Pampas? : lessons from a decade of strong hydrological fluctuations 

  Kuppel, S.; Houspanoussian, J.; Nosetto, M.D.; Jobbágy, E.G. (2015-01)

  While most landscapes respond to extreme rainfalls with increased liquid water outputs, very flat and poorly drained ones have little capacity to do this and their most common responses include (i) increased water storage ...
• Rainwater harvesting in Dry Chaco : regional distribution and local water balance 

  Magliano, Patricio N.; Murray, Francisco; Baldi, Germán; Aurand, Santiago; Páez, Ricardo A.; Harder, Wilbert; Jobbágy, Esteban G. (Elsevier, 2015)

  Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has been essential for the establishment of human settlements in many dry regions of the world that lacked suitable surface or groundwater resources. A vast fraction of the South American Dry ...
• Imprint of crop choice on global nutrient needs 

  Jobbágy, Esteban G.; Sala, Osvaldo E. (IOP Publishing, 2014)

  Future changes in crop composition could contribute to more sustainable food systems, optimizing land and fertilizer use. Changes in crop composition strongly affect how much soil nutrients need to be withdrawn per unit ...
• Woody plant-cover dynamics in Argentine Savannas from the 1880s to 2000s : the interplay of encroachment and agriculture conversion at varying scales 

  González-Roglich, Mariano; Swenson, Jennifer J.; Villarreal, Diego; Jobbágy, Esteban G.; Jackson, Robert B. (Springer, 2015)

  Woody plant-cover dynamics can alter the provisioning of ecosystem services that humans rely on. However, our understanding of such dynamics today is often limited by the availability of reliable and detailed land-cover ...
• Interactive effects of water-table depth, rainfall variation, and sowing date on maize production in the Western Pampas 

  Florio, E.L.; Mercau, J.L.; Jobbágy, E.G.; Nosetto, M.D. (Elsevier, 2014)

  tShallow water-tables strongly influence agro-ecosystems and pose difficult management challenges tofarmers trying to minimize their negative effects on crops and maximize their benefits. In this paper, weevaluated how the ...
• Cultivating the dry forests of South America : diversity of land users and imprints on ecosystem functioning 

  Baldi, Germán; Houspanossian, Javier; Murray, Francisco; Rosales, Adriel A.; Rueda, Carla V.; Jobbágy, Esteban G. (Elsevier, 2014)

  In the South American dry forest of the Dry Chaco and Chiquitania, the area under cultivation rose from 10% to 19% over the last 10 years, and little biophysical, economical, or political constrains seem to prevent further ...
• Balancing agricultural and hydrologic risk in farming systems of the Chaco plains 

  Giménez, Raúl; Mercau, Jorge L.; Houspanossian, Javier; Jobbágy, Esteban G. (Elsevier, 2014)

  Like in other semiarid areas of the world, farming systems in semiarid Chaco tend to use water-conservative crop systems to minimize production risks associated to water stress. While this strategy aims to stabilize crop ...

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