MODELS TO CALCULATE DISTRIBUTIVE OUTCOMES OF WATER CONSERVATION

Go to the Excel model Re-Distribution of agro-water savings (ReDRAWS

Publications

Lankford, B.A. and McCartney, M. Due 2023 or 2024. Managing the irrigation efficiency paradox to “free” water for the environment. In Knox, J.W. (Ed). Improving water management in agriculture. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited. Cambridge. http://dx.doi.org/10.19103/AS.2023.0123.16

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Lankford, B.A. and Scott, C.A. 2023. The paracommons of competition for resource savings: Irrigation water conservation redistributes water between irrigation, nature, and society. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 198: 107195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107195

 

Puy, A., Massimi, M., Lankford, B. and Saltelli, A. 2023. Irrigation modelling needs better epistemology. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 4(7): 427-428.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00459-0

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Lankford, B. 2023. Resolving the paradoxes of irrigation efficiency; Irrigated systems accounting analyses depletion-based water conservation for reallocation. Agricultural Water Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108437

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Puy, A., Sheikholeslami, R., Gupta, H. V., Hall, J. W., Lankford, B., Lo Piano, S., Meier, J., Pappenberger, F., Porporato, A., Vico, G., & Saltelli, A. (2022). The delusive accuracy of global irrigation water withdrawal estimates. Nature communications, 13(1), 3183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30731-8

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Lankford, B., Pringle, C., McCosh, J., Shabalala, M., Hess, T., Knox, J.W. (2023) Irrigation area, efficiency and water storage mediate the drought resilience of irrigated agriculture in a semi-arid catchment. Science of the Total Environment 859, 160263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160263

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Lankford, B.A. (2022) Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’. Water International 47, 1155-1164. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2022.2088650

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Puy, A., Lankford, B., Meier, J., van der Kooij, S., & Saltelli, A. (2022). Large variations in global irrigation withdrawals caused by uncertain irrigation efficiencies. Environmental Research Letters, 17(4), 044014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5768

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Lankford, B. A., and C. F. Grasham. 2021. Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages. Water International, 1-19.   https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1902686 

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Lankford, B., Closas, A., Dalton, J., López Gunn, E., Hess, T., Knox, J.W., van der Kooij, S., Lautze, J., Molden, D., Orr, S., Pittock, J., Richter, B., Riddell, P.J., Scott, C.A., Venot, J.-p., Vos, J., Zwarteveen, M. (2020) A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges. Global Environmental Change 65, 102182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102182

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van der Kooij, S., M. Kuper, C. de Fraiture, B. Lankford and M. Zwarteveen. Re-allocating yet-to-be-saved water in irrigation modernization projects. The case of the Bittit Irrigation System, Morocco, in ‘Drip Irrigation for Agriculture. Untold Stories of efficiency, innovation and development’. Eds. J.P. Venot, M. Kuper and M. Zwarteveen. Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management. Routledge, Oxon, UK.

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Hooper, V and Lankford B.A. 2017. Unintended water allocation; Gaining share from the ungoverned spaces of land and water transformations in Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal, eds., Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy. Pp 248-266. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199335084.013.32 

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Lankford, B. A. 2016. The Liminal Paracommons of Future Natural Resource Efficiency Gains, In Amin, A. and Howell. P., Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons.  Routledge, London.  pp 66-88.  Click here for scan of chapter

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Conway, D., van Garderen, E. A., Deryng, D., Dorling, S., Krueger, T., Landman, W., Lankford, B, Lebek, K., Osborn, T., Ringler, C., Thurlow, J., Zhu T. and Dalin, C. (2015). Climate and southern Africa's water-energy-food nexus. Nature Clim. Change, 5(9), 837-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2735

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Lankford B.A.  2013. Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages. Earthscan Publications, Abingdon.  ISBN (978-0-415-82846-8). E-pub from Routledge 

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Lankford, B. A. 2012. Preface; Towards a political ecology of irrigation efficiency and productivity. Journal of Agricultural Water Management. 108 1-2.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2012.03.005

Lankford B.A. 2012  Fictions, fractions, factorials, fractures and fractals; on the framing of irrigation efficiency.  Journal of Agricultural Water Management. 108, 27–38.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2012.03.005

 

Pittock, J. and Lankford, B.A. 2010. Environmental water requirements: demand management in an era of water scarcity. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 7(1):1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/19438151003603159

Lankford, B.A. (2006).  Localising irrigation efficiency.  Irrigation and Drainage Systems. 55:  345–362. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.270

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Franks, T., Lankford, B. and Mdemu M. 2004.  Managing Water Amongst Competing Uses: The Usangu Wetland in Tanzania.  Irrigation and Drainage (53): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.123​

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