Richard G Taylor

Biographic Data

ID6570143
NAMERichard G Taylor
GIVEN NAMESRichard G
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR R G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-9867-8033
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • A review of open data for studying global groundwater in social–ecological systems

    Open AccessXander Huggins, Tom Gleeson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Global data have served an integral role in characterizing large-scale groundwater systems, identifying their sustainability challenges, and informing on socioeconomic and ecological dimensions of groundwater. These insights have revealed groundwater as a dynamic component of the water cycle and social–ecological systems, leading to an expansion in groundwater science that increasingly focuses on groundwater’s interactions with ecological, socioe…

  • A multicriteria analysis of groundwater development pathways in three river basins in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessImogen Bellwood-Howard, Imogen Bellwood‐Howard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022References: 13

    Reliance on groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing and expected to rise as surface water resource variability increases under climate change. Major questions remain about how groundwater will be used, and who informs these decisions. We represent different visions of groundwater use by ‘pathways’: politically and environmentally embedded socio-technological regimes for governing and managing groundwater systems. We presented policy actors (…

  • Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers

    Open AccessBridget R Scanlon, Ashraf Rateb et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Water resources management is a critical issue in Africa where many regions are subjected to sequential droughts and floods. The objective of our work was to assess spatiotemporal variability in water storage and related controls (climate, human intervention) in major African aquifers and consider approaches toward more sustainable development. Different approaches were used to track water storage, including GRACE/GRACE Follow On satellites for T…

  • Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security

    Open AccessAlan Macdonald, R M Lark et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Groundwater forms the basis of water supplies across much of Africa and its development is rising as demand for secure water increases. Recharge rates are a key component for assessing groundwater development potential, but have not been mapped across Africa, other than from global models. Here we quantify long-term average (LTA) distributed groundwater recharge rates across Africa for the period 1970–2019 from 134 ground-based estimates and upsc…

  • The measurement of water scarcity: Defining a meaningful indicator

    Open AccessSimon Damkjaer, Richard Taylor et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2017Cited by: 5References: 62

    Metrics of water scarcity and stress have evolved over the last three decades from simple threshold indicators to holistic measures characterising human environments and freshwater sustainability. Metrics commonly estimate renewable freshwater resources using mean annual river runoff, which masks hydrological variability, and quantify subjectively socio-economic conditions characterising adaptive capacity. There is a marked absence of research ev…

  • Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

    Open AccessMark Zeitoun, Bruce Lankford et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 18References: 14

  • Intensive rainfall recharges tropical groundwaters

    Open AccessScott Jasechko, Richard G TaylorARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Dependence upon groundwater to meet rising agricultural and domestic water needs is expected to increase substantially across the tropics where, by 2050, over half of the world's population is projected to live. Rare, long-term groundwater-level records in the tropics indicate that groundwater recharge occurs disproportionately from heavy rainfalls exceeding a threshold. The ubiquity of this bias in tropical groundwater recharge to intensive prec…

  • Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa

    Open AccessAlan Macdonald, A M MacDonald et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    Download details: IP Address: 128.40.214.188 The article was downloaded on 06/02/2013 at 15:44 Please note that terms and conditions apply. View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more

  • Hydrological modeling of River Xiangxi using SWAT2005: A comparison of model parameterizations using station and gridded meteorological observations

    Open AccessHongmei Xu, Richard G Taylor et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2010

  • Rainfall intensity and groundwater recharge: Empirical evidence from the Upper Nile Basin

    Open AccessMichael Owor, Richard G Taylor et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2009

    Changes in the intensity of precipitation as a result of global warming are expected to be especially pronounced in the tropics. The impact of changing rainfall intensities on groundwater recharge remains, however, unclear. Analysis of a recently compiled data set of coincidental, daily observations of rainfall and groundwater levels remote from abstraction for four stations in the Upper Nile Basin over the period 1999–2008 shows that the magnitu…