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GWSP publications: Scientific Framework, Issues in Global Water System Research, and Global Water Newsletters

  • Framing Committee of the GWSP (2005): The Global Water System Project: Science Framework and Implementation Activities. Earth System Science Partnership. Available online.

  • Van Bers, C.; Petry, D.; Pahl-Wostl, C. (Editors) (2007): Global Assessments: Bridging Scales and Linking to Policy. Report on the joint TIAS-GWSP workshop held at the University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, USA, 10 and 11 May 2007. GWSP Issues in Global Water System Research, No. 2. GWSP IPO, Bonn. Available online.

  • Sullivan et al. (2006): Mapping the Links between Water, Poverty and Food Security. Report on the Indicators workshop held at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, 16-19 May 2005. GWSP Issues in Global Water System Research, No. 1. GWSP IPO, Bonn. Available online.

  • GWSP International Project Office (2007): Global Water News No. 5 . Available online.

  • GWSP International Project Office (2006): Global Water News No. 4. Available online.

  • GWSP International Project Office (2006): Global Water News No. 3. Available online.

  • GWSP International Project Office (2005): Global Water News No. 2. Available online.

  • GWSP International Project Office (2005): Global Water News No. 1. Available online.

 

GWSP publications

  • NEW ! J. Marengo (08/2008): Water and Climate Change in Brazil and Latin America. A chapter to be found in "The III Regional Conference on Global Change: South America, October 2007, São Paulo, Brazil", to be published in August 2008.

  • NEW ! L. Dümenil Gates, D. Petry, M. Endejan (04/2008): Das Global Water System Project. German language publication on GWSP in hydrology. In Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, 52. Jahrgang, Heft 2, April 2008, pp. 77-78.

  • NEW ! P.C.D. Milly, Julio Betancourt, Malin Falkenmark, Robert M. Hirsch, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Ronald J. Stouffer (02/2008): Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management? In Science Magazine, Vol 319, February 2008, pp. 573-574

  • NEW ! Grote, U.; Craswell, E.T.; Vlek, P.L.G. (2008): Nutrient and virtual water flows in traded agricultural commodities. In Braimoh, A.K.; Vlek, P.L.G. (editors): Land use and soil resources, pp. 121-143. Dordrecht, Springer. 253 pp. Available online.

  • NEW ! Alcamo, J.M.; Vörösmarty, C.J.; Naiman, R.J.; Lettenmaier, D.P.; Pahl-Wostl, C. (2008): A grand challenge for freshwater research: understanding the global water system. Environ. Res. Lett. 3 010202 (6pp), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/1/010202. Available online.

  • Palmer, M.A., C.A. Reidy Liermann, C. Nilsson, M. Flörke, J. Alcamo, P.S. Lake, and N. Bond, 2008: Climate change and the world’s river basins: anticipating management options. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6, DOI: 10.1890/060148. Available online.

  • Alcamo, J., J.M. Moreno, B. Novaky (Convening Lead Authors), M. Bindi, R. Corobov, R.J.N. Devoy, C. Giannakopoulos, E. Martin, J.E. Olesen, A. Shvidenko (Lead Authors). 2007: Europe. Chapter 12 in: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Available online.

  • Alcamo, J., Floerke, M. Maerker, M. 2007. Future long-term changes in global water resources driven by socio-economic and climatic changes. Hydrological Sciences 52(2): 247-275

  • Alcamo, J., Dronin, N., Endejan, M., Golubev, G., Kirilenko, A. 2007. A new assessment of climate change impacts on food production shortfalls and water availability in Russia. Global Environmental Change doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.12.006

  • D’Almeida, C., C. Vörösmarty, G. Hurtt, J. Marengo, S.L. Dingman, and B. Keim, 2007: The effects of deforestation on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia: A review on scale and resolution. International Journal of Climatology 27: 633-647.

  • Douglas, E.M., S. Wood, K. Sebastian, C.J. Vörösmarty, K.M. Chomitz, and T.P. Tomich, 2007: Policy implications of a pan-tropic assessment of the simultaneous hydrological and biodiversity impacts of deforestation. Water Resources Management 21:1 211-232.

  • Liu, C. and B. Men, 2007: An ecological hydraulic radius approach to estimate the instream ecological water requirement. Progress in Natural Science, Vol. 17(3), 32-39.

  • Vörösmarty, C.J., J.P. Ericson, S.L. Dingman, L.G. Ward, and M. Meybeck, 2007: Future impacts of fresh water resource management: sensitivity of coastal deltas. In: B.W. Webb and D. DeBoer (eds.), Water Quality and Sediment Behaviour of the Future: Predictions for the 21st Century, pp. 231-38. IAHS Publication No. 314, Wallingford UK.

  • Weiss, M., M. Flörke, L. Menzel, J. Alcamo, 2007: Model-based scenarios of Mediterranean droughts. Advances in Geoscience, 12, 145-151.

  • Xia, J., L. Zhang, C. Liu, J. Yu, 2007: Towards better water security in North China. Water Resources Manage., 21, 233-247

  • Zhang, Y., C. Liu, Y. Tang and Y. Yang, 2007: Trends in pan evaporation and reference and actual evapo-transpiration across the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.112

  • Craswell, E.; Bonnell, M; Bossio, D.; Demuth, S.; van de Giesen, N. (Guest Editors) (2007): Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change — A North-South Analysis. Water Resources Management. Volume 21, Number 1. 373pp. ISSN 0920-4741. Springer Netherlands.

  • Craswell, E.T. (2007). Book Review – Water: Global Common and Global Problems. Ed. Velma I. Grover. Enfield, New Hampshire, USA: Science Publishers (2006), pp. 533. ISBN 1-578-409-1. Experimental Agriculture (2007) 43: 134.

  • Oki, T.; Kanae, S. (2006): Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources. Science 25 August 2006: Vol. 313. no. 5790, pp. 1068 - 1072; DOI: 10.1126/science.1128845. Available online.

  • Arthington, A. H.; Bunn, S. E.; LeRoy Poff, N; Naiman, R. J. (2006): The Challenge of Providing Environemental Flow Rules to Sustain River Ecosystems. Ecological Applications, 16(4), pp. 1311-1318. Available online.

  • Craswell, E. T. (2006): Water and Poverty in Southeast Asia - the Research Agenda from a Global Perspective. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Vol. 1, No. 2. Available online.
  • Braimoh, K. A.; Craswell, E.T. (2006): Assessing Global Water System Research. Eos, Vol. 87, No. 16, 18 April 2006, p. 159. Available online.
  • Syvitski, J.; Vörösmarty, C; Kettner, A.; Green, P. (2005): Impact of Humans on the Flux of Terrestrial Sediment to the Global Coastal Ocean, Science Vol. 308: 376-380. Available online.

  • Vörösmarty, C.; Lettenmaier, D.; Leveque, C.; Meybeck, M.; Pahl-Wostl, C.; Alcamo, J.; Cosgrove, W.; Grassl, H.; Hoff, H.; Kabat, P.; Lansigan, F.; Lawford, R.; Naiman, R. (as members of the Framing Committee of the GWSP) (2004): Humans Transforming the Global Water System. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 85:48 (30 November 2004). Available online.

  • Pep Canadell, P.; Carson, D.; Craswell, E.; Göbel, B.; Ingram, J.; Larigauderie, A.; Steffen, W.; Virji, H. 2004: Towards a holistic approach to global change research: The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). APN Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 3 (July 2004), Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research. Available online.
  • Endejan, M. (2005): The Global Water System Project in: WaMRI Newsletter No. 8, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promoting Water Management and Risk Communication. Available (english/german/russian)

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Other selected publications
  • NEW ! German National Committee on Global Change Research (04/2008): Global Change Research in Germany 2008. Available in English and German. Please see www.nkgcf.org for further info.
  • Falkenmark, M.; Folke, C.; Gordon, L.; Johannessen, A.; Jönsson, B; Steffen, W. (2005): Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) Volume 102, No. 21. Available online.

  • Nilsson, C., C. A. Reidy, M. Dynesius, and C. Revenga (2005). Fragmentation and flow regulation of the world’s large river systems. Science 308: 405-408. Available online.
  • SIWI, IFPRI, IUCN, IWMI (2005): Let it Reign: The New Water Paradigm for Global Food Security, Final Report to CSD-13, Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm. Available online.
  • Pahl-Wostl, C.; Hoff, H.; Meybeck M.; Soroshian S. (ed) (2002): Vulnerability of Water Resources to Environmental Change - A Systems' Approach, Aquatic Science 64:4 (special issue).

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