Extended droughts, or droughts that are warmer or more frequent than they have been in the past, can have large consequences on water availability, forest productivity, and forest mortality.
WIREs Water
Integrating Human Behavior Dynamics into Drought Risk Assessment
As climate variability continues to increase and socioeconomic development influences the distribution of wealth and people, drought risk is expected to increase in many parts of the world.
Monitoring the Riverine Pulse
Improving our understanding of hydrologic and biogeochemical processes through nitrate evolution.
More Research Needed on Drought Impacts in Urban Africa
Climate shock‐related water insecurity has a significant impact on poverty, and vice versa, with poor people adversely impacted by different hazards.
Valuing Fresh Waters
Fresh waters are plural and valued variously, in ways that bear critical‐constructive decolonial scrutiny in the twenty‐first century.
Ecological Impact is a Two-Way Street
A hierarchical perspective should be dropped in favor of a framework that recognizes organisms as an integral part of the environment.
Rural Potable Water Systems
Looking at the past and towards the future of contingent valuation and rural potable water systems.
Diversity in Ancient Maya Water Management
The Classic Period Maya cities of Caracol and Tikal possessed unique urban morphologies of water management.
Digital Surveys Reveal the Complexity of Rivers and Coastlines
Drones and three-dimensional modelling methods provide us with the most detailed picture yet of some of the most dynamic environments on the planet.
Advancing Predictive Understanding of River Corridor Exchange
Unifying river corridor science through systematic re-evaluation of methods in the context of broader conceptual models and quantitative theory.
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