Evolving water science in the Anthropocene

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 319-332

  Savenije, H H G ^a   Hoekstra, A Y ^b   Van Der Zaag, P ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL WATER; WATER EXPERTS; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER SCIENCE;

CATCHMENTS; WATERWORKS;

WATER RESOURCES;

CATCHMENT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENGINEERING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LANDSCAPE; MARGINALIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84893109818     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-319-2014     Document Type: Article

References (125)

1. Adams, R. McC.: The evolution of urban society: Early Mesopotamia and prehistoric Mexico, Aldine, Chicago, 1966.
2. Allan, J. A.: Water use and development in arid regions: Environment, economic development and water resource politics and policy, Rev. Eur. Commun. Int. Environ. Law, 5, 107-115, 1996.
3. Allan, J. A.: The Middle East water question: Hydropolitics and the global economy, I.B. Tauris, London, UK, 2001.
4. Allan, T.: IWRM/IWRAM: a new sanctioned discourse? Occasional Paper 50, SOAS Water Issues Study Group, School of Oriental and African Studies, King's College, London, UK, 2003.
5. Arsano, Y.: Ethiopia and the Nile: Dilemmas of national and regional hydropolitics, PhD dissertation, Center for Security Studies (CSSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 324 pp., 2007.
6. Bastiaanssen, W. G. M., Molden, D. J., and Makin, I. W.: Remote sensing for irrigated agriculture: Examples from research and possible applications, Agr. Water Manage., 46, 137-155, 2000.
7. Biswas, A. K.: History of hydrology, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 336 pp., 1970.
8. Bossio, D., Jewitt, G., and Van der Zaag, P.: Editorial-Smallholder system innovation for integrated watershed management in Sub-Saharan Africa, Agr. Water Manage., 98, 1683-1686, 2011.
9. Brichieri-Colombi, S.: The world water crisis: The failures of resource management, I.B. Taris, London, UK, 2009.
10. Chapagain, A. K., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Water saving through international trade of agricultural products, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 455-468, doi:10.5194/hess-10-455-2006, 2006.
11. Cosgrove, W. and Rijsberman, F.: World water vision: Making water everybody's business, World Water Council, Earthscan, London, UK, 2000.
12. Crutzen, P. J. and Stoermer, E. F.: The "Anthropocene", Global Change Newsl., 41, 17-18, 2000.
13. Dahl, G. and Megerssa, G.: The sources of life: Boran concepts of wells and water, in: From water to world-making; African models and arid lands, edited by: Pálsson, G., Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden, 21-37, 1990.
14. Daily, G. C., Polasky, S., Goldstein, J., Kareiva, P. M., Mooney, H. A., Pejchar, L., Ricketts, T. H., Salzman, J., and Shallenberger, R.: Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver, Front. Ecol. Environ., 7, 21-28, 2009.
15. De Fraiture, C., Giordano, M., and Liao, Y.: Biofuels and implications for agricultural water use: blue impacts of green energy, Water Pol., 10 (Supplement 1), 67-81, 2008. (Pubitemid 351346421)
16. De Groot, R. S., Alkemade, R., Braat, L., Hein, L., and Willemen, L.: Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making, Ecol. Complex., 7, 260-272, doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.10.006, 2010.
17. De Villiers, M.: Water: The fate of our most precious resource, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, USA, 2000.
18. De Vries, J. J.: Anderhalve eeuw hydrologisch onderzoek in Nederland. Overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de wetenschappelijke kennis van het water in Nederland tussen 1830 en 1980 beschouwd vanuit een geohydrologische gezichtshoek, Rodopi, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 195 pp., 1982.
19. Duan, Z. and Bastiaanssen, W. G. M.: Estimating water volume variations in lakes and reservoirs from four operational satellite altimetry databases and satellite imagery data, Remote Sens. Environ., 134, 403-416, 2013.
20. Edixhoven, J. D., Gupta, J., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Recent revisions of phosphate reserves and resources: reassuring or misleading?; An in-depth literature review of global estimates of phosphate rock reserves and resources. Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., 4, 1005-1034, 2013.
21. Falkenmark, M.: Meeting water requirements of an expanding world population, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London B, 352, 929-936, 1997. (Pubitemid 27347800)
22. Falkenmark, M.: Freshwater as shared between society and ecosystems: from divided approaches to integrated challenges, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London B, 358, 2037-2049, 2003. (Pubitemid 38062262)
23. Falkenmark, M. and Rockström, J.: Balancing water for humans and nature: The new approach in ecohydrology, Earthscan, London, UK, 2004.
24. Geertz, C.: Organization of the Balinese Subak, in: Irrigation and agricultural development in Asia-perspectives from the social sciences, edited by: Coward, E. W., Cornell University Press, Ithaca, USA, 70-90, 1980.
25. Gerbens-Leenes, W., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Van der Meer, T. H.: The water footprint of bioenergy, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 106, 10219-10223, 2009.
26. Giddens, A.: Social theory and modern sociology, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 1987.
27. Glick, T. F.: Irrigation and society in medieval Valencia, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Ma., USA, 1970.
28. Goor, Q., Halleux, C., Mohamed, Y., and Tilmant, A.: Optimal operation of a multipurpose multireservoir system in the Eastern Nile River Basin, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 1895-1908, doi:10.5194/hess-14-1895-2010, 2010.
29. Gray, R. F.: The Sonjo of Tanganyika: An anthropological study of an irrigation-based society, Oxford University Press, London, UK, 1963.
30. GWP: Integrated water resources management, TAC Background Papers No. 4, Global Water Partnership, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000.
31. Hoekstra, A. Y. (Ed.): Virtual water trade: Proceedings of the International Expert Meeting on Virtual Water Trade, Value of Water Research Report Series No.12, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands, 2003.
32. Hoekstra, A. Y.: The global dimension of water governance: Why the river basin approach is no longer sufficient and why cooperative action at global level is needed, Water, 3, 21-46, 2011.
33. Hoekstra, A. Y.: The water footprint of modern consumer society, Routledge, London, UK, 2013.
34. Hoekstra, A. Y. and Chapagain, A. K.: Globalization of water: Sharing the planet's freshwater resources, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2008.
35. Hoekstra, A. Y. and Hung, P. Q.: Globalisation of water resources: international virtual water flows in relation to crop trade, Global Environmental Change, 15, 45-56, 2005. (Pubitemid 40307156)
36. Hoekstra, A. Y., Savenije, H. H. G., and Chapagain, A. K.: An integrated approach towards assessing the value of water: A case study on the Zambezi basin, Integr. Assess., 2, 199-208, 2001.
37. Hoekstra, A. Y., Chapagain, A. K., Aldaya, M. M., and Mekonnen, M. M.: The water footprint assessment manual: Setting the global standard, Earthscan, London, UK, 2011.
38. Hunink, J. E., Droogers, P., Kauffman, S., Mwaniki, B. M. and Bouma, J.: Quantitative simulation tools to analyze up-and downstream interactions of soil and water conservation measures: Supporting policy making in the Green Water Credits program of Kenya, J. Environ. Manage., 111, 187-194, 2012.
39. ICWE: The Dublin statement on water and sustainable development, International Conference on Water and the Environment, Dublin, Ireland, 1992.
40. Keys, P. W., van der Ent, R. J., Gordon, L. J., Hoff, H., Nikoli, R., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Analyzing precipitationsheds to understand the vulnerability of rainfall dependent regions, Biogeosciences, 9, 733-746, doi:10.5194/bg-9-733-2012, 2012.
41. King, J. and Brown, C.: Integrated basin flow assessments: concepts and method development in Africa and South-east Asia, Freshw. Biol., 55, 127-146, 2010.
42. Komakech, H. C., Van der Zaag, P., and Van Koppen, B.: The dynamics between water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity sustaining canal institutions in Makanya catchment, Tanzania, Water Pol., 14, 800-820, 2012.
43. Koudstaal, R., Rijsberman, F. R., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Water and Sustainable Development, Nat. Resour. Forum, 16, 277-290, 1992. (Pubitemid 23367555)
44. Leach, E. R.: Pul Eliya: A village in Ceylon, A study of land tenure and kinship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1961.
45. Linton, J.: Is the hydrologic cycle sustainable? A historical- heographical critique of a modern concept, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98, 630-649, 2008.
46. Liu, C., Kroeze, C., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Gerbens-Leenes, W.: Past and future trends in grey water footprints of anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to major world rivers, Ecol. Indicators, 18, 42-49, 2012.
47. Liu, J. and Savenije, H. H. G.: Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 887-898, doi:10.5194/hess-12-887-2008, 2008. (Pubitemid 351831795)
48. L'vovich, M. I. and White, G. F.: Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems, in: The earth as transformed by human action: global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years, edited by: Turner II, B. L., Clarck, W. C., Kates, R. W., Richards, J. F., Mathews, J. T., and Meyer,W. B., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 235-252, 1990.
49. Ma, J., Hoekstra, A. Y.,Wang, H., Chapagain, A. K., andWang, D.: Virtual versus real water transfers within China, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B., 361, 835-842, 2006. (Pubitemid 44858923)
50. Makurira, H., Savenije, H. H. G., Uhlenbrook, S., Rockström, J., and Senzanje, A.: Towards a better understanding of water partitioning processes for improved smallholder rainfed agricultural systems: A case study of Makanya catchment, Tanzania, Phys. Chem. Earth, 32, 1082-1089, 2007. (Pubitemid 47387073)
51. Makurira, H., Savenije, H. H. G., Uhlenbrook, S., Rockström, J., and Senzanje, A.: Investigating the water balance of on-farm techniques for improved crop productivity in rainfed systems: A case study of Makanya catchment, Tanzania, Phys. Chem. Earth, 34, 93-98, 2009.
52. Makurira, H., Savenije, H. H. G., and Uhlenbrook, S.: Modelling field scale water partitioning using on-site observations in sub-Saharan rainfed agriculture, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 627-638, doi:10.5194/hess-14-627- 2010, 2010.
53. Makurira, H., Savenije, H. H. G., Uhlenbrook, S., Rockström, J., and Senzanje, A.: The effect of system innovations on water productivity in subsistence rainfed agricultural systems in semi-arid Tanzania, Agr. Water Manage., 98, 1696-1703, 2011.
54. Mekonnen, M. M. and Hoekstra, A. Y.: A global assessment of the water footprint of farm animal products, Ecosystems, 15, 401-415, 2012.
55. Meybeck, M.: Global analysis of river systems: from Earth system controls to Anthropocene syndromes, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. B, 358, 1935-1955, 2003. (Pubitemid 38062256)
56. Meybeck, M.: The global change of continental aquatic systems: dominant impacts of human activities, Water Sci. Technol., 49, 73-83, 2004. (Pubitemid 38801736)
57. Molden, D. (Ed.): Water for food, water for life: A comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture, Earthscan, London, UK, 2007.
58. Molle, F., Mollinga, P. P., and Wester, P.: Hydraulic bureaucracies and the hydraulic mission: Flows of water, flows of power,Water Alternatives, 2, 328-349, 2009.
59. Molle, F., Wester, P., and Hirsch, P.: River basin closure: Processes, implications and responses, Agr. Water Manage., 97, 569-577, 2010.
60. Montanari, A., Young, G., Savenije, H. H. G., Hughes, D., Wagener, T., Ren, L. L., Koutsoyiannis, D., Cudennec, C., Toth, E., Grimaldi, S., Blöschl, G., Sivapalan, M., Beven, K., Gupta, H., Hipsey, M., Schaefli, B., Arheimer, B., Boegh, E., Schymanski, S. J., Di Baldassarre, G., Yu, B., Hubert, P., Huang, Y., Schumann, A., Post, D., Srinivasan, V., Harman, C., Thompson, S., Rogger, M., Viglione, A., McMillan, H., Characklis, G., Pang, Z., and Belyaev V., Panta R: Everything Flows": Change in hydrology and society; The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022, Hydrol. Sci. J., 58, 1256-1275, doi:10.1080/02626667.2013.809088, 2013.
61. Mul, M. L., Kemerink, J. S., Vyagusa, N. F., Mshana, M. G., Van der Zaag, P., and Makurira, H.:Water allocation practices among smallholder farmers in the South Pare Mountains, Tanzania: The issue of scale, Agr. Water Manage., 98, 1752-1760, 2011.
62. Munyaneza, O., Wali, U. G., Uhlenbrook, S., Maskey, S., and Mlotha, M. J.: Water level monitoring using radar remote sensing data: Application to Lake Kivu, central Africa, Phys. Chem. Earth, 34, 722-728, 2009.
63. Neset, T. S. S. and Cordell, D.: Global phosphorus scarcity: identifying synergies for a sustainable future, J. Sci. Food Agr., 92, 2-6, doi:10.1002/jsfa.4650, 2012.
64. Ngigi, S. N., Savenije, H. H. G., Rockström, J., and Gachene, C. K.: Hydro-economic evaluation of rainwater harvesting and management technologies: Farmers' investment options and risks in semi-arid Laikipia district of Kenya, Phys. Chem. Earth, 30, 772-782, 2005. (Pubitemid 41574350)
65. Ngigi, S. N., Rockström, J., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Assessment of rainwater retention in agricultural land and crop yield increase due to conservation tillage in Ewaso Ng'iro river basin, Kenya, Phys. Chem. Earth, 31, 910-918, 2006. (Pubitemid 44426635)
66. Ngigi, S. N., Savenije H. H. G., and Gichuki, F. N.: Land use changes and hydrological impacts related to up-scaling of rainwater harvesting and management in upper Ewaso Ng'iro river basin, Kenya, Land Use Pol., 24, 129-140, 2007. (Pubitemid 44405382)
67. Norgaard, R. B., Kallis, G., and Kiparsky, M.: Collectively engaging complex socio-ecological systems: re-envisioning science, governance, and the California Delta, Environ. Sci. Pol., 12, 644-652, 2009.
68. Oki, T. and Kanae, S.: Virtual water trade and world water resources, Water Sci. Technol., 49, 203-209, 2004. (Pubitemid 38801754)
69. Pahl-Wostl, C., Sendzimir, J., Jeffrey, P., Aerts, J., Berkamp, G., and Cross, K.: Managing change toward adaptive water management through social learning, Ecol. Soc., 12, 30, 2007.
70. Pearce, F.: When the rivers run dry: Water-the defining crisis of the twenty-first century, Beacon Press, Boston, USA, 2006.
71. Poff, N. L., Richter, B. D., Aarthington, A. H., Bunn, S. E., Naiman, R. J., Kendy, E., Acreman, M., Apse, C., Bledsoe, B. P., Freeman, M. C., Henriksen, J., Jacobson, R. B., Kennen, J. G., Merritt, D. M., O'Keeffe, J. H., Olden, J. D., Rogers, K., Tharme, R. E., and Warner, A.: The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): A new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards, Freshwater Biol., 55, 147-170, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02204.x, 2010.
72. Ponting, C.: A green history of the world; The environment and the collapse of great civilizations, Sinclair-Stevenson, London, UK, 1991.
73. Postel, S.: Entering an era of water scarcity: the challenges ahead, Ecol. Applications, 10, 941-948, 2000. (Pubitemid 32145274)
74. Reisner, M.: Cadillac desert, the American desert and its disappearing water, Viking Penguin, New York, USA, 1986.
75. Rockström, J.: Water for food and nature in drought-prone tropics: vapour shift in rain-fed agriculture, Philos. Trans. Biol. Sci., 358, 1997-2009, 2003. (Pubitemid 38062259)
76. Rockström, J., Folke, C., Gordon, L., Hatibu, N., Jewitt, G., De Vries, F. P., Rwehumbiza, F., Sally, H., Savenije, H., and Schulze, R.: A watershed approach to upgrade rainfed agriculture in water scarce regions through Water System Innovations: an integrated research initiative on water for food and rural livelihoods in balance with ecosystem functions, Phys. Chem. Earth, 29, 1109-1118, 2004. (Pubitemid 39347759)
77. Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Hoff, H., Rost S., and Gerten, D.: Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change, Water Resour. Res., 45, W00A12, doi:10.1029/2007WR006767, 2009a.
78. Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å., Chapin, F. S., Lambin, E. F., Lenton, T. M., Scheffer, M., and Folke, C.: A safe operating space for humanity, Nature, 461, 472-475, doi:10.1038/461472a, 2009b.
79. Rogers, P. and Leal, S.: Running out of water: The looming crisis and solutions to conserve our most precious resource, Palgrave McMillan, New York, USA, 2010.
80. Rogers, P., Bhatia, R., and Huber, A.: Water as a social and economic good: How to put the principle into practice, TAC Background Papers No. 2, GlobalWater Partnership, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998.
81. Rogers, P., De Silva, R., and Bhatia, R.:Water is an economic good: How to use prices to promote equity, efficiency, and sustainability, Water Pol., 4, 1-17, 2002. (Pubitemid 34653185)
82. Romaguera, M., Hoekstra, A. Y., Su, Z., Krol, M. S., and Salama, M. S.: Potential of using remote sensing techniques for global assessment of water footprint of crops, Remote Sens., 2, 1177-1196, 2010.
83. Romaguera, M., Krol, M. S., Salama, M. S., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Su, Z.: Determining irrigated areas and quantifying blue water use in Europe using remote sensing Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) products and Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) data, Photogram. Eng. Remote Sens., 78, 861-873, 2012.
84. Sadoff, C. W. and Grey, D.: Beyond the river: the benefits of cooperation on international rivers, Water Pol., 4, 389-403, 2002. (Pubitemid 35456819)
85. Sadoff, C. W. and Grey, D.: Cooperation on international rivers-a continuum for securing and sharing benefits,Water Int., 30, 420-427, 2005. (Pubitemid 43155690)
86. Sarni, W.: Corporate water strategies, Earthscan, London, UK, 2011.
87. Savenije, H. H. G.: New definitions for moisture recycling and the relation with land-use changes in the Sahel, J. Hydrol., 167, 57-78, 1995.
88. Savenije, H. H. G.: How do we feed a growing world population in a situation of water scarcity?, Key note paper presented at the 8th Stockholm Symposium, 10-13 August, 1998, in: Water-The key to socio-economic development and quality of life, SIWI, Stockholm, Sweden, 49-58, 1998.
89. Savenije, H. H. G.: Water scarcity indicators; the deception of the numbers, Phys. Chem. Earth Pt. B, 25, 199-204, 2000. (Pubitemid 30259799)
90. Savenije, H. H. G.: Why water is not an ordinary economic good, or why the girl is special, Phys. Chem. Earth, 27, 741-744, 2002. (Pubitemid 35326853)
91. Savenije, H. H. G. and Van der Zaag, P.:Water as an economic good and demand management: paradigms with pitfalls,Water Int., 27, 98-104, 2002. (Pubitemid 34463731)
92. Schama, S.: The embarrassment of riches; an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age, Collins, London, UK, 1987.
93. Scheffer, M., Carpenter, S., Foley, J. A., Folke, C., and Walker, B.: Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, Nature, 413, 591-596, 2001. (Pubitemid 32964052)
94. Scott, C. A., Pierce, S. A., Pasqualetti, M. J., Jones, A. L., Montz, B. E., and Hoover, J. H.: Policy and institutional dimensions of the water-energy nexus, Energy Pol., 39, 6622-6630, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.013, 2011.
95. Seyam, I., Savenije, H. H. G., Aerts, J., and Schepel, M.: Algorithms for water resources distribution in international river basins, Phys. Chem. Earth Pt. B, 25, 309-314, 2000. (Pubitemid 30259815)
96. Seyam, I. M., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Calculation methods to access the value of upstream water flows and storage as a function of downstream benefits, Phys. Chem. Earth, 27, 977-982, 2002. (Pubitemid 35326879)
97. Seyam, I. M., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Savenije, H. H. G.: The water value-flow concept, Phys. Chem. Earth, 28, 175-182, 2003. (Pubitemid 36568378)
98. Sivapalan, M., Savenije, H. H. G., and Bloeschl, G.: Sociohydrology: A new science of people and water, Hydrol. Process., 26, 1270-1276, doi:10.1002/hyp.8426, 2012.
99. Steffen, W., Crutzen, P. J., and McNeill, J. R.: The Anthropocene: Are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature, Ambio, 36, 614-621, 2007.
100. Steffen, W., Grinevald, J., Crutzen, P., and McNeill, J.: Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives, Philosophical Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 369, 842-867, 2011a.
101. Steffen, W., Persson, A., Deutsch, L., Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Richardson, K., Crumley, C., Crutzen, P., Folke, C., Gordon, L., Molina, M., Ramanathan, V., Rockström, J., Scheffer, M., Schellnhuber H. J., and Svedin, U.: The Anthropocene: From global change to planetary stewardship, Ambio, 40, 739-761, 2011b.
102. Su, Z.: The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) for estimation of turbulent heat fluxes, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 6, 85-100, doi:10.5194/hess-6- 85-2002, 2002.
103. Swallow, B. M., Kallesoe, M. F., Iftikhar, U.A., Van Noordwijk, M., Bracer, C., Scherr, S. J., Raju, K. V., Poats, S. V., Duraiappah, A. K., Ochieng, B. O., Mallee, H., and Rumley, R.: Compensation and rewards for environmental services in the developing world: framing pan-tropical analysis and comparison, Ecol. Soc. 14, 26, 2009.
104. Swyngedouw, E.: Modernity and hybridity: nature, regeneracionismo, and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890-1930, Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr., 89, 443-465, 1999. (Pubitemid 29509023)
105. Swyngedouw, E.: The political economy and political ecology of the hydro-social cycle, J. Contemp. Water Res. Educ., 142, 56-60, 2009.
106. Temesgen, M., Rockstrom, J., Savenije, H. H. G., Hoogmoed, W. B., and Alemu, D.: Determinants of Tillage Frequency among Smallholder Farmers in Two Semi-arid Areas in Ethiopia, Phys. Chem. Earth, 33, 183-191, 2008. (Pubitemid 351218265)
107. Temesgen, M., Hoogmoed, W. B., Rockström J., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Conservation tillage implements and systems for smallholder farmers in semi-arid Ethiopia, Soil Till. Res., 104, 185-191, 2009.
108. Temesgen, M., Uhlenbrook, S., Simane, B., van der Zaag, P., Mohamed, Y., Wenninger, J., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Impacts of conservation tillage on the hydrological and agronomic performance of Fanya juus in the upper Blue Nile (Abbay) river basin, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 4725-4735, doi:10.5194/hess-16-4725-2012, 2012.
109. UN Water: Managing water under uncertainty and risk, The United Nations world water development report 4, UN Water Reports, World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France, 2012.
110. Van der Ent, R. J., Savenije, H. H. G., Schaefli, B., and Steele-Dunne, S. C.: Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents, Water Resour. Res., 46, W09525, doi:10.1029/2010WR009127, 2010.
111. Van der Zaag, P.: Asymmetry and equity in water resources management; critical governance issues for Southern Africa, Water Resour. Manag., 21, 1993-2004, doi:10.1007/s11269-006-9124-1, 2007.
112. Van der Zaag, P.: Viewpoint-Water variability, soil nutrient heterogeneity and market volatility-Why sub-Saharan Africa's Green Revolution will be location-specific and knowledge-intensive, Water Altern., 3, 154-160, 2010.
113. Van der Zaag, P., Savenije, H. H. G., and Seyam, I.: Towards measurable criteria for the equitable sharing of international water resources, Water Pol., 4, 19-32, 2002. (Pubitemid 34653186)
114. Van de Ven, G. P. (Ed.): Man-made lowlands; history of water management and land reclamation in the Netherlands, Matrijs, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 293 pp., 1993.
115. Vanham, D., Hoekstra, A. Y., and Bidoglio, G.: Potential water saving through changes in European diets, Environ. Int., 61, 45-56, 2013.
116. Varis, O., Biswas, A. K., Tortajada, C., and Lundqvist, J.: Megacities and water management, Int. Jo. Water Resour. Develop., 22, 377-394, doi:10.1080/07900620600684550, 2006. (Pubitemid 43878849)
117. Vishnudas, S., Savenije, H. H. G., and Van der Zaag, P.: Watershed development practices for ecorestoration in a tribal area-A case study in Attappady Hills, South India, Phys. Chem. Earth, 47-48, 58-63, doi:10.1016/j.pce.2012.04.001, 2012.
118. Vörösmarty, C. J., Sharma, K. P., Fekete, B. M., Copeland, A. H., Holden, J., Marble, J., and Lough, J. A.: The storage and aging of continental runoff in large reservoir systems of the world, Ambio, 26, 210-219, 1997. (Pubitemid 27439804)
119. Wahr, J., Tiwari, V. M., and Swenson, S.: Monitoring groundwater variability from space: the GRACE satellite gravity mission, IAHS publication, 330, 263-270, 2009.
120. WCED: Our common future, The World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1987.
121. Winsemius, H. C., Savenije, H. H. G., and Bastiaanssen, W. G. M.: Constraining model parameters on remotely sensed evaporation: justification for distribution in ungauged basins?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1403-1413, doi:10.5194/hess-12-1403-2008, 2008.
122. Worster, D.: Rivers of empire: water, aridity and the growth of the American West, Pantheon Books, New York, USA, 402 pp., 1985.
123. Yang, H., Wang, L., Abbaspour, K. C., and Zehnder, A. J. B.: Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 443-454, doi:10.5194/hess-10-443-2006, 2006. (Pubitemid 43992797)
124. Zimmerer, K. S.: The origins of Andean irrigation, Nature, 378, 481-483, 1995. (Pubitemid 3002258)
125. Zwart, S. J., Bastiaanssen, W. G. M., De Fraiture, C., and Molden, D. J.: A global benchmark map of water productivity for rainfed and irrigated wheat, Agr. Water Manage., 97, 1617-1627, 2010.