Search Results - "Louise Karlberg"

The role of water harvesting to achieve sustainable agricultural intensification and resilience against water related shocks in sub-Saharan Africa by Dile, Yihun Taddele, Karlberg, Louise, Temesgen, Melesse, Rockström, Johan

“…•Sustainable agriculture is needed to limit growing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.•Water harvesting systems can increase productivity.•Water harvesting systems…”
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Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change by Rockstrom, Johan, Karlberg, Louise, Hoff, Holger, Rost, Stefanie, Gerten, Dieter

“…While past strategies for agricultural water management have focused on irrigation (use of blue water), this paper demonstrates the dominance of green water in…”
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Assessing the implications of water harvesting intensification on upstream–downstream ecosystem services: A case study in the Lake Tana basin by Dile, Yihun Taddele, Karlberg, Louise, Daggupati, Prasad, Srinivasan, Raghavan, Wiberg, David, Rockström, Johan

“…Water harvesting systems have improved productivity in various regions in sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly, they can help retain water in landscapes, build…”
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Advances in water resources research in the Upper Blue Nile basin and the way forward: A review by Dile, Yihun Taddele, Tekleab, Sirak, Ayana, Essayas K., Gebrehiwot, Solomon G., Worqlul, Abeyou W., Bayabil, Haimanote K., Yimam, Yohannes T., Tilahun, Seifu A., Daggupati, Prasad, Karlberg, Louise, Srinivasan, Raghavan

“…•Data scarcity has limited water resources research in the Upper Blue Nile basin.•State-of-the-art review presents research achievements, and gaps.•Advances…”
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Towards more spatially explicit assessments of virtual water flows: linking local water use and scarcity to global demand of Brazilian farming commodities by Flach, Rafaela, Ran, Ylva, Godar, Javier, Karlberg, Louise, Suavet, Clement

“…Global consumption of farming commodities is an important driver of water demand in regions of production. This is the case in Brazil, which has emerged as one…”
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Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity by Rockström, Johan, Steffen, Will, Noone, Kevin, Persson, Åsa, Chapin, F. Stuart, Lambin, Eric, Lenton, Timothy M., Scheffer, Marten, Folke, Carl, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim, Nykvist, Björn, de Wit, Cynthia A., Hughes, Terry, van der Leeuw, Sander, Rodhe, Henning, Sörlin, Sverker, Snyder, Peter K., Costanza, Robert, Svedin, Uno, Falkenmark, Malin, Karlberg, Louise, Corell, Robert W., Fabry, Victoria J., Hansen, James, Walker, Brian, Liverman, Diana, Richardson, Katherine, Crutzen, Paul, Foley, Jonathan

“…Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach…”
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Co-exploring the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Facilitating Dialogue through Participatory Scenario Building by Johnson, Oliver W., Karlberg, Louise

“…The ‘water-energy-food (WEF) nexus’ has become an increasingly popular way to frame the challenges associated with reconciling improvements in human wellbeing…”
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Investigation of the Curve Number Method For Surface Runoff Estimation In Tropical Regions by Dile, Yihun Taddele, Karlberg, Louise, Srinivasan, Raghavan, Rockström, Johan

“…This study tests the applicability of the curve number (CN) method within the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to estimate surface runoff at the watershed…”
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Tackling complexity: Understanding the food-energy-environment nexus in Ethiopia's Lake Tana sub-basin by Karlberg, Louise, Hoff, Holger, Amsalu, Tedasse, Andersson, Kim, Binnington, Taylor, Flores-López, Francisco, Bruin, Annemarieke de, Gebrehiwot, Solomon Gebreyohannis, Gedif, Birhanu, Johnson, Oliver, Heide, Friedrich zur, Osbeck, Maria, Young, Chuck

“…Ethiopia has embarked upon a rapid growth and development trajectory aiming to become a middle-income country by 2025. To achieve this goal, an agricultural…”
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Suitability of Water Harvesting in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia: A First Step towards a Mesoscale Hydrological Modeling Framework by Dile, Yihun T., Karlberg, Louise, Rockström, Johan

“…Extreme rainfall variability has been one of the major factors to famine and environmental degradation in Ethiopia. The potential for water harvesting in the…”
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Modeling Carbon Turnover in Five Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Boreal Zone Using Multiple Criteria of Acceptance by Karlberg, Louise, Gustafsson, David, Jansson, Per-Erik

“…Estimates of carbon fluxes and turnover in ecosystems are key elements in the understanding of climate change and in predicting the accumulation of trace…”
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Assessing impacts of agricultural water interventions in the Kothapally watershed, Southern India by Garg, Kaushal K., Karlberg, Louise, Barron, Jennie, Wani, Suhas P., Rockstrom, Johan

“…The paper describes a hydrological model for agricultural water intervention in a community watershed at Kothapally in India, developed through integrated…”
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A safe operating space for humanity by Rockström, Johan, Steffen, Will, Noone, Kevin, Persson, Åsa, Chapin, F. Stuart, Lambin, Eric F, Lenton, Timothy M, Scheffer, Marten, Folke, Carl, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim, Nykvist, Björn, de Wit, Cynthia A, Hughes, Terry, van der Leeuw, Sander, Rodhe, Henning, Sörlin, Sverker, Snyder, Peter K, Costanza, Robert, Svedin, Uno, Falkenmark, Malin, Karlberg, Louise, Corell, Robert W, Fabry, Victoria J, Hansen, James, Walker, Brian, Liverman, Diana, Richardson, Katherine, Crutzen, Paul, Foley, Jonathan A

“…Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental…”
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The Quadruple Squeeze: Defining the Safe Operating Space for Freshwater use to Achieve a Triply Green Revolution in the Anthropocene by Rockström, Johan, Karlberg, Louise

“…Humanity has entered a new phase of sustainability challenges, the Anthropocene, in which human development has reached a scale where it affects vital…”
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Water–energy–food nexus: a platform for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by Stephan, Raya Marina, Mohtar, Rabi H., Daher, Bassel, Embid Irujo, Antonio, Hillers, Astrid, Ganter, J. Carl, Karlberg, Louise, Martin, Liber, Nairizi, Saeed, Rodriguez, Diego J., Sarni, Will

“…Tight interconnections exist between water, energy and food systems. As stresses on these resource systems continue to increase, there is a growing need to…”
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Up-scaling potential impacts on water flows from agricultural water interventions: opportunities and trade-offs in the Osman Sagar catchment, Musi sub-basin, India by Garg, Kaushal K., Wani, Suhas P., Barron, Jennie, Karlberg, Louise, Rockstrom, Johan

“…Agricultural water management (AWM) has been shown to improve and secure yields in the tropics and has been suggested as an important way to combat poverty in…”
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The planetary water drama: Dual task of feeding humanity and curbing climate change by Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., Lannerstad, M., Karlberg, L.

“…This paper analyses the potential conflict between resilience of the Earth system and global freshwater requirements for the dual task of carbon sequestration…”
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Greening the global water system by Hoff, H., Falkenmark, M., Gerten, D., Gordon, L., Karlberg, L., Rockström, J.

“…Recent developments of global models and data sets enable a new, spatially explicit and process-based assessment of green and blue water in food production and…”
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Impacts of agricultural water interventions on farm income: An example from the Kothapally watershed, India by Karlberg, L., Garg, K.K., Barron, J., Wani, S.P.

“…•AWI resulted in more than a doubling of farm incomes during normal and wet years.•With AWI annual incomes fluctuated more compared with the traditional…”
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Present and future water requirements for feeding humanity by Falkenmark, M., Rockström, J., Karlberg, L.

“…The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture recommended that future food production should be concentrated on existing agricultural land in…”
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