Practicality of marine protected areas - Can there be solutions for the River Indus delta?

Kidwai, Samina; Fanning, Paul; Ahmed, Waqar; Tabrez, Mohsin; Zhang, Jing; Khan, Muhammad Wasim

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2016.09.016

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“…This case study adds to the plea for adopting an all-encompassing approach to understand the realities of marine conservation from the bottom-up (Kidwai et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 97%

Crossroads at sea: Escalating conflict in a marine protected area in Malta

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MacMillan

Campbell

2018

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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“…This case study adds to the plea for adopting an all-encompassing approach to understand the realities of marine conservation from the bottom-up (Kidwai et al, 2016).…”

Section: ) Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Crossroads at sea: Escalating conflict in a marine protected area in Malta

Said

MacMillan

Campbell

2018

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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“…Evidence from multiple literature studies show that the Indus Delta ecosystem has experienced losses in fisheries, economical gains, and mangroves due to human-induced stressors in the past years. Also, it has been observed in studies that the decrease in freshwater reaching delta and sediments is one of the major causes of the damage to the Indus Delta (Salik et al, 2015;Salik et al, 2016;Kidwai et al, 2016;Kidwai et al, 2019). This study assesses the multi-sectoral impacts of provision of freshwater to the Indus Delta and associated costs in the water, energy, and land sectors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Replenishing the Indus Delta through multi-sector transformation

Awais

Vinca

Parkinson

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The Indus River Basin (IRB) is a severely water-stressed and rapidly developing home to an estimated 250 million people in South Asia. An acute deficit of environmental flows (EFs) in the basin’s delta negatively impacts geomorphology and surrounding ecosystems. Here, a sub-national model of the IRB’s integrated water–energy–land systems is applied to quantify multi-sector transformations and system costs for enhancing EFs to the Indus Delta. The results show that increasing the average outflows from the basin relative to historical policy levels by 2.5 and 5 times would increase sectoral costs for upstream water users between 17–32 and 68–72% for low and high ecological potential targets. The enhanced EFs result in more energy for pumping and treating water upstream from the delta and a net increase in irrigation and energy investments. The EF policy costs are minimized by 7–14% through cooperation across countries and 6–9% through the coordinated implementation of water efficiency measures in the irrigation, conveyance, power plant cooling, and water treatment sectors. The results underscore the crucial role of a multi-sector, multi-scale collaboration in achieving EF targets in water-stressed river basins for ecosystem adaptation to climate vulnerability, restoration of the delta, and socio-economic benefits.

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“…Furthermore, other factors related to hydrodynamic situations are related to the freshwater content. Mangroves in Sundarbans or India are a remarkable example to consider [19].…”

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Impacts of climate change on snakes in mangrove forests

Jiang

2023

Second International Conference on Biological Engineering and Medical Science (ICBioMed 2022)

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Nowadays climate change is processing at an accelerated rate, and animals' responses to it are also frequently discussed. rove forests as thriving habitats for many animals have been studied a lot. Nevertheless, the specialized study of snakes in mangrove forests and their responses to climate change are not concentrated. In this study, firstly the direct consequences of climate change in mangrove forests are analyzed. Then, the responses of snakes in mangrove forests including the weakened olfactory discrimination and cutaneous respiratory, evolutionary changes, expanding activity period, declining productivity, and less fitted offspring are discussed, followed by the summary of a declining trend of distribution and biomass. Climate change has various influences which cooperate with multiple other factors such as the mangrove species, biomass, and biodiversity of microorganisms. In order to figure out the accurate responses to specific climate changes, further research is expected to be more specialized on particular species of snakes in one area to conduct control experiments.

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Practicality of marine protected areas - Can there be solutions for the River Indus delta?

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Crossroads at sea: Escalating conflict in a marine protected area in Malta

Crossroads at sea: Escalating conflict in a marine protected area in Malta

Replenishing the Indus Delta through multi-sector transformation

Impacts of climate change on snakes in mangrove forests

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