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Climate change induced waterstress: challenges and opportunities in Austrian regions (WaterStressAT)

In WaterStressAT we assess water availability and demand in Austrian regions considering alternative socio-economic and climate futures. This is to understand the risk of water stress and associated management opportunities. We are in the process of establishing a stakeholder co-design process spanning the entire project duration involving joint problem-framing, participatory modelling, and co-producing bottom-up water stress scenarios as well as risk management options.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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Sustainable water quality management supporting Uganda’s development ambitions (SWAQ-Uganda)

Water quality challenges are major threats to human health, ecosystem health and economic development in Uganda, but inadequate data and capacity prevents effective management of water quality.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Community Water Model (CWatM) Uganda
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SDG-pathfinding: Co-creating Pathways for Sustainable Development in Africa

This Belmont Forum Pathways project will support the localization of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda through the development and testing of innovative policy tools, in order to engage local and regional actors from Africa in the design and implementation of required sustainability transformations.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Senegal
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New global indicators for global change impacts on lake water quality to support management and policy making (InventWater ESR6)

This is a PhD Project under the scope of inventWater, which aims to develop innovative global indicators for water quality status (especially eutrophication) and changes in selected lakes worldwide, accounting for climate change, socio-economic development scenarios to facilitate water resources management and policy making.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM) Community Water Model (CWatM)
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Water Futures and Solutions for Israel (WFaS-Israel)

Climate change and population growth will challenge water security in Israel. Adapting to future water security challenges requires policymakers to act today. The Water Futures and Solutions for Israel project (WFaS-Israel) aims to assess water scarcity in Israel under different plausible future scenarios. Each scenario combines different climatic trajectories with diverse socio-economic and spatial planning storylines.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Community Water Model (CWatM) Israel
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Growth and Fiscal Analysis of Risk Layering Strategies (GFRList)

'Risk-layering' strategies to reduce, retain and transfer disaster risk not only protect productive assets and lives, but implemented appropriately, could yield a number of additional benefits that could enhance wellbeing and resilience. Yet, conventional static macroeconomic models are not capable of analysing how alternative fiscal resource allocations to risk-layering options may affect developing countries’ growth trajectories under the impact of climate change.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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The World Bank ECA Regional Water Security Initiative: Development of an Assessment and Preparation of Diagnostic Reports

This project aims to assess and benchmark current and future challenges around water security in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region; and, to develop an operational Methodological Framework to conduct country and regional Water Security Assessments and Benchmarking as well as to provide country specific recommendations using an Action Planning Tool.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Montenegro Serbia
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CO-development of Methods to utilize uncertain multi-model based Information on freshwater-related hazards of Climate Change (CO-MICC)

This project explores how to use multi-model ensembles to inform climate change management.  
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Morocco Spain Tunisia
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Advancing WFaS East Africa: Scaling out resilient water and agricultural systems (scaleWAYS)

This research and development project analyzes up-scaling options for water and land management practices for the resilient and sustainable intensification of agricultural production and food systems in the extended Lake Victoria Basin.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Research Project

fairSTREAM

In fairSTREAM, IIASA researchers aim to understand and reconcile issues of fairness. This is a key aspect for managing risks in nexus issues, such as the food-water-biodiversity nexus, where conflicting views on procedural and outcome fairness often remain unresolved and jeopardize finding viable solutions. Addressing these issues is a major challenge that requires the integration of multiple sources of knowledge and the cooperation of many different societal actors.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU) Strategic Initiatives (SI) India
Research Project

Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST)

RESIST will apply a multidisciplinary systems-thinking framework that aims to integrate (i) scientific evidence on key ecosystem processes driving climate change and (ii) socio-economic aspects driving stakeholder decision-making, both of which ultimately affect the Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems under future scenarios.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Strategic Initiatives (SI) Trait Ecology and Evolution Plant Model (PLANT) Community Water Model (CWatM)
Research Project

SOS Water- Establishing a Safe Operating Space (SOS) for the global water resources system (SOS Water)

Defining a safe operating space for water resources in a changing climate and society
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Global Hydro-economic Model (ECHO) Community Water Model (CWatM) Spain

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