Irrigation in the Earth system

S McDermid, M Nocco, P Lawston-Parker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

DL McCollum, LG Echeverri, S Busch… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to
society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges …

Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system

J Fuhrman, C Bergero, M Weber, S Monteith… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a critical tool in all plans to limit warming to below 1.5° C,
but only a few CDR pathways have been incorporated into integrated assessment models …

Global peak water limit of future groundwater withdrawals

H Niazi, TB Wild, SWD Turner, NT Graham… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Over the past 50 years, humans have extracted the Earth's groundwater stocks at a steep
rate, largely to fuel global agro-economic development. Given society's growing reliance on …

The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability

Z Huang, X Yuan, X Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has become a major issue to sustainable development. It can be estimated by
available fresh water resources and human water withdrawal, which are affected by both …

The scenario model intercomparison project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6

BC O'Neill, C Tebaldi, DP Van Vuuren… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
Projections of future climate change play a fundamental role in improving understanding of
the climate system as well as characterizing societal risks and response options. The …

Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities

J Roy, P Tscharket, H Waisman, S Abdul Halim… - 2018 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

P Smith, K Calvin, J Nkem, D Campbell… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food
production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation …

Understanding and managing the food-energy-water nexus–opportunities for water resources research

X Cai, K Wallington, M Shafiee-Jood… - Advances in Water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Studies on the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus lay a shared foundation for
researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and stakeholders to understand and manage …

Effects of global climate mitigation on regional air quality and health

X Huang, V Srikrishnan, J Lamontagne, K Keller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate mitigation can bring air quality and health co-benefits. How these health impacts
might be distributed across countries remains unclear. Here we use a coupled climate …