Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability

By R. McDonald, P. Green, Deborah Balk, Balazs M. Fekete, C. Revenga, M. Todd, M. Montgomery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Research, part of a Special Feature on A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems Applying the social-ecological system framework to the diagnosis of urban lake commons in Bangalore, India (2014, background): “Key Words: collective action; decentralization; leadership; peri-urban SES; polycentricity”
The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use (2019, background): “…identifying populations at risk of infectious diseases or disasters; and informing management and policy decisions from local- to global-level initiatives (e.g., Wesolowski et al., 2014; Simarro et al., 2011; McDonald et al., 2011; Jones et al., 2008; McGranahan et al., 2007; Doocy et al., 2007).”
Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050 (2019, background): “Moreover, the UHI effect has been shown to increase the water demand for irrigation (Guhathakurta and Gober 2007), which may not be met as urbanization and climate change were projected to cause water shortage for an additional ∼1 billion urban dwellers by 2050 (McDonald et al 2011).”
Genetic Advances in Adapting Rice to a Rapidly Changing Climate (2012, neutral): “0 billion in 2000 (McDonald et al. 2011).”
Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions (2021, methodology): “…global urban water scarcity, Flörke et al. 7 considered 482 cities (accounting for just 26% of the global urban population) under a business-as-usual scenario, and while McDonald et al. 2 assessed a larger range of cities and scenarios, they considered water availability only, not withdrawals.”
Urban water security: A review (2018, background): “McDonald et al (2011) estimate the amount of water physically available near cities and show that currently 150 million people live in cities with perennial water shortage, defined as having less than 100 litre per personperdayof sustainable surface andgroundwaterflow within their urban extent.”