Christopher A Scott
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81625 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher A Scott |
| NOMBRES | Christopher A |
| APELLIDO | Scott |
| FIRMA | SCOTT C A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6767-0450 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Coproducing water-energy-food Nexus actionable knowledge
The water-energy-food (WEF) Nexus is an integrative framework for addressing the multi-scalar interdependencies that challenge sustainability solutions across the water, energy, and food systems. However, challenges linked to scale and data availability often make WEF analyses more theoretical, limiting their ability to offer practical, implementable solutions in policy and decision contexts. This paper introduces Collaborative Learning Schools (…
Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management
This bibliometric analysis of Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management (IUFRM) scholarship from 2011 to 2024 confirms the catalytic roles of the 2015 global conventions (SFDRR, Paris Agreement, SDGs), evidenced by accelerated publication growth. Conceptually, climate change has become a dominant and integral theme, while sustainability strategies, such as nature‐based solutions, have emerged as crucial basic themes with strong potential for further…
Evaluación del proyecto de saneamiento transfronterizo en Ambos Nogales. Identificando lo homogéneo de lo diverso
Este artículo tiene como objetivo caracterizar a la población de Ambos Nogales en función de sus opiniones sobre los impactos generados por el proyecto de ampliación y evaluación de proyectos de modernización del sistema de saneamiento transfronterizo durante el periodo 2000-2018, para identificar criterios de evaluación ex post que fortalezcan estrategias de gobernanza de políticas públicas en materia de agua y saneamiento. Se aplicó una encuest…
Renewable Electricity Production in Mountain Regions
This paper examines progress and limitations in the transition from current dependence on carbon-based energy toward clean, renewable, and socially just energy in the Hindu Kush Himalaya and the Andes. Focusing on electricity production from sustainable hydropower, solar, and wind energy, the assessment does not cover biomass energy, although this is recognized to be an important energy source in these regions. Using meta-analysis methods, a set …
Sacrificing the local to support the national
Developing run-of-the-river (ROR) hydropower can pose a sustainability paradox. The paradox can occur when countries prioritize hydropower development to achieve national-level sustainable development targets while failing to include project-affected communities in planning processes. This research developed a comparative study examining the ways social and political relations were articulated between hydropower companies and project-affected com…
The re-adaptation challenge
Assessing barriers and enablers in the institutionalization of river-basin adaptive management
Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
Urban water security
In this study we analyse how three cities in the arid Americas have addressed urban growth while facing water scarcity: Hermosillo, Mexico; Mendoza, Argentina; and Tucson, USA. We use the urban water security framework to examine five domains of water management: sociodemographic, economic, technological, ecological and governance (SETEG). Our analysis indicates that, in spite of water scarcity, urban growth has been promoted in the three cities.…
Institutional Strategies for Adaptation to Water Stress in Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems of Nepal
Institutions governing common-pool resources have survived decades of global change with mixed performance. However, we have limited knowledge on how local institutions cope with and adapt to combined environmental and socio-economic changes. Using the case of 12 farmer-managed irrigation systems (FMIS) in Central and Western Nepal, this paper explores the institutional coping and adaptation mechanisms to water stress. We find that local irrigati…
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Collective agro-energy generation in family agriculture
One of the challenges in the agribusiness sector in Brazil, the 4th largest food producer in the world, is to assess the effectiveness of participatory methods to convert animal manure into economic assets. In this scenario, biogas and biomethane stand out as renewable sources of energy available in all countries and their uses can significantly induce local and regional economic development. This study will present an arrangement known as agroen…
Water security
Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience
Rivers and riparian ecosystems have historically provided a range of beneficial goods and services to human societies. However, floodplains have also posed risks to the humans that came to rely upon them. Although riparian areas are among the most resource-rich and biodiverse ecosystems, they are also some of the most disturbed by human activity. Today, social and economic needs for water diverted off-stream are often pitted against the flow of w…
Bringing the Hydrosocial Cycle into Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Glaciers, snowpack, rivers, lakes, and wetlands in mountain regions provide freshwater for much of the world's population. These systems, however, are acutely sensitive to climate change. In Andean water towers, which supply freshwater to more than 100 million people, climate change adaptation planning is critical. Adaptation plans, however, are more than just documents; they inform and are informed by sociopolitical processes with major implicat…
Towards characterizing the adaptive capacity of farmer-managed irrigation systems
Small-scale irrigation systems managed by farmers are facing multiple challenges including competing water demand, climatic variability and change, and socioeconomic transformation. Though the relevant institutions for irrigation management have developed coping and adaptation mechanisms, the intensity and frequency of the changes have weakened their institutional adaptive capacity. Using case examples mostly from Nepal, this paper studies the in…
Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security
The nexus
Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
A Paradox of Plenty
A persistent paradox in the global boom of renewable energy revolves around how little of its vast potential has been developed on Native American lands. For economic and environmental reasons, attempts to reverse this pattern are on the rise. Such plans will encounter many unique conditions, particularly those related to tribal norms, customs, and histories. This article examines the prospect of renewable energy (RE) development on the Navajo Na…
Eletricidade para o bombeamento de água subterrânea
Globalmente, o uso de água subterrânea tem se intensificado para suprir as demandas de irrigação, abastecimento urbano, industrialização e, em alguns casos, geração de energia elétrica. Em resposta à variabilidade hidroclimática, a água superficial vem sendo substituída por água subterrânea, o que deve ser visto como um recurso estratégico para a adaptação climática. Nesse sentido, o abastecimento de eletricidade para o bombeamento de água seria …
Electricity for groundwater use
Globally, groundwater use is intensifying to meet demands for irrigation, urban supply, industrialization, and, in some instances, electrical power generation. In response to hydroclimatic variability, surface water is being substituted with groundwater, which must be viewed as a strategic resource for climate adaptation. In this sense, the supply of electricity for pumping is an adaptation policy tool. Additionally, planning for climate-change m…
Tushaar Shah
Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
Urban-agricultural water appropriation
With the urbanisation drive comes steady growth in urban water demand. Although in the past this new demand could often be met by tapping unclaimed water sources, this option is increasingly untenable in many regions where little if any unclaimed water remains. The result is that urban water capture, and the appropriation of associated physical and institutional infrastructure, now often implies conflict with other existing uses and users. While …
Innovating resource regimes
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
Institutional Strategies for Adaptation to Water Stress in Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems of Nepal
Institutions governing common-pool resources have survived decades of global change with mixed performance. However, we have limited knowledge on how local institutions cope with and adapt to combined environmental and socio-economic changes. Using the case of 12 farmer-managed irrigation systems (FMIS) in Central and Western Nepal, this paper explores the institutional coping and adaptation mechanisms to water stress. We find that local irrigati…
The nexus
Adapting Across Boundaries
The spatial and human dimensions of climate change are brought into relief at international borders where climate change poses particular challenges. This article explores “double exposure” to climatic and globalization processes for the U.S.–Mexico border region, where rapid urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural intensification result in vulnerability to water scarcity as the primary climate change concern. For portions of the wester…
Sacrificing the local to support the national
Developing run-of-the-river (ROR) hydropower can pose a sustainability paradox. The paradox can occur when countries prioritize hydropower development to achieve national-level sustainable development targets while failing to include project-affected communities in planning processes. This research developed a comparative study examining the ways social and political relations were articulated between hydropower companies and project-affected com…
Urban water security
In this study we analyse how three cities in the arid Americas have addressed urban growth while facing water scarcity: Hermosillo, Mexico; Mendoza, Argentina; and Tucson, USA. We use the urban water security framework to examine five domains of water management: sociodemographic, economic, technological, ecological and governance (SETEG). Our analysis indicates that, in spite of water scarcity, urban growth has been promoted in the three cities.…
Bringing the Hydrosocial Cycle into Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Glaciers, snowpack, rivers, lakes, and wetlands in mountain regions provide freshwater for much of the world's population. These systems, however, are acutely sensitive to climate change. In Andean water towers, which supply freshwater to more than 100 million people, climate change adaptation planning is critical. Adaptation plans, however, are more than just documents; they inform and are informed by sociopolitical processes with major implicat…
A Paradox of Plenty
A persistent paradox in the global boom of renewable energy revolves around how little of its vast potential has been developed on Native American lands. For economic and environmental reasons, attempts to reverse this pattern are on the rise. Such plans will encounter many unique conditions, particularly those related to tribal norms, customs, and histories. This article examines the prospect of renewable energy (RE) development on the Navajo Na…
Transboundary adaptive management to reduce climate-change vulnerability in the western U.S.–Mexico border region
Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border
Drinking Wastewater
In the coming decades, highly treated wastewater, known as reclaimed water, is slated to be a major element of municipal water supplies. In particular, planners propose supplementing drinking water with reclaimed water as a sustainable solution to the growing challenge of urban water scarcity. Public opposition is currently considered the primary barrier to implementing successful potable water reuse projects; nonetheless, public responses to rec…
The Mutual Conditioning of Humans and Pathogens
We highlight an emerging mode of human–environment enquiry that is executed by cross-disciplinary teams, spurs innovation of hybrid methods, and leads to nonintuitive findings relevant beyond disciplinary framings or specific cases. The extension of this approach in health geography is particularly instructive. By focusing on material objects like soils, insects, or sewage, researchers from diverse epistemologies are compelled to translate concep…
The re-adaptation challenge
Assessing barriers and enablers in the institutionalization of river-basin adaptive management
Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience
Rivers and riparian ecosystems have historically provided a range of beneficial goods and services to human societies. However, floodplains have also posed risks to the humans that came to rely upon them. Although riparian areas are among the most resource-rich and biodiverse ecosystems, they are also some of the most disturbed by human activity. Today, social and economic needs for water diverted off-stream are often pitted against the flow of w…
Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security
Local Knowledge and Conventional Soil Science Approaches to Erosional Processes in the Shivalik Himalaya
Local ('indigenous') knowledge and conventional ('modern') science are both limited in their abilities to mitigate soil erosion hazard in the Himalaya. While each system's terminology for erosion results from distinct perceptions of the environment, each responds differently to hazard. Local knowledge primarily responds over the long term and over areas beyond the actual site of soil loss. In a complementary manner, conventional science emphasize…
Adapting Across Boundaries
The spatial and human dimensions of climate change are brought into relief at international borders where climate change poses particular challenges. This article explores “double exposure” to climatic and globalization processes for the U.S.–Mexico border region, where rapid urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural intensification result in vulnerability to water scarcity as the primary climate change concern. For portions of the wester…
Urban-agricultural water appropriation
With the urbanisation drive comes steady growth in urban water demand. Although in the past this new demand could often be met by tapping unclaimed water sources, this option is increasingly untenable in many regions where little if any unclaimed water remains. The result is that urban water capture, and the appropriation of associated physical and institutional infrastructure, now often implies conflict with other existing uses and users. While …
Policy and institutional dimensions of the water–energy nexus
Innovating resource regimes
Transboundary adaptive management to reduce climate-change vulnerability in the western U.S.–Mexico border region
The Mutual Conditioning of Humans and Pathogens
We highlight an emerging mode of human–environment enquiry that is executed by cross-disciplinary teams, spurs innovation of hybrid methods, and leads to nonintuitive findings relevant beyond disciplinary framings or specific cases. The extension of this approach in health geography is particularly instructive. By focusing on material objects like soils, insects, or sewage, researchers from diverse epistemologies are compelled to translate concep…
Electricity for groundwater use
Globally, groundwater use is intensifying to meet demands for irrigation, urban supply, industrialization, and, in some instances, electrical power generation. In response to hydroclimatic variability, surface water is being substituted with groundwater, which must be viewed as a strategic resource for climate adaptation. In this sense, the supply of electricity for pumping is an adaptation policy tool. Additionally, planning for climate-change m…
Water Security and Adaptive Management in the Arid Americas
Societal use of freshwater, ecosystems’ dependence on water, and hydroclimatic processes interact dynamically. Changes in any of these subsystems can cause unpredictable feedback, resulting in water insecurity for humans and ecosystems. By drawing on resilience theory, we extend current productive–destructive framings of water security to better address societal–ecosystem–hydroclimatic (SEH) interactions, dynamics, and uncertainties that drive in…
Drinking Wastewater
In the coming decades, highly treated wastewater, known as reclaimed water, is slated to be a major element of municipal water supplies. In particular, planners propose supplementing drinking water with reclaimed water as a sustainable solution to the growing challenge of urban water scarcity. Public opposition is currently considered the primary barrier to implementing successful potable water reuse projects; nonetheless, public responses to rec…
Eletricidade para o bombeamento de água subterrânea
Globalmente, o uso de água subterrânea tem se intensificado para suprir as demandas de irrigação, abastecimento urbano, industrialização e, em alguns casos, geração de energia elétrica. Em resposta à variabilidade hidroclimática, a água superficial vem sendo substituída por água subterrânea, o que deve ser visto como um recurso estratégico para a adaptação climática. Nesse sentido, o abastecimento de eletricidade para o bombeamento de água seria …
Towards characterizing the adaptive capacity of farmer-managed irrigation systems
Small-scale irrigation systems managed by farmers are facing multiple challenges including competing water demand, climatic variability and change, and socioeconomic transformation. Though the relevant institutions for irrigation management have developed coping and adaptation mechanisms, the intensity and frequency of the changes have weakened their institutional adaptive capacity. Using case examples mostly from Nepal, this paper studies the in…
Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security
The nexus
Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
A Paradox of Plenty
A persistent paradox in the global boom of renewable energy revolves around how little of its vast potential has been developed on Native American lands. For economic and environmental reasons, attempts to reverse this pattern are on the rise. Such plans will encounter many unique conditions, particularly those related to tribal norms, customs, and histories. This article examines the prospect of renewable energy (RE) development on the Navajo Na…
Bringing the Hydrosocial Cycle into Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Glaciers, snowpack, rivers, lakes, and wetlands in mountain regions provide freshwater for much of the world's population. These systems, however, are acutely sensitive to climate change. In Andean water towers, which supply freshwater to more than 100 million people, climate change adaptation planning is critical. Adaptation plans, however, are more than just documents; they inform and are informed by sociopolitical processes with major implicat…
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Collective agro-energy generation in family agriculture
One of the challenges in the agribusiness sector in Brazil, the 4th largest food producer in the world, is to assess the effectiveness of participatory methods to convert animal manure into economic assets. In this scenario, biogas and biomethane stand out as renewable sources of energy available in all countries and their uses can significantly induce local and regional economic development. This study will present an arrangement known as agroen…
Water security
Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience
Rivers and riparian ecosystems have historically provided a range of beneficial goods and services to human societies. However, floodplains have also posed risks to the humans that came to rely upon them. Although riparian areas are among the most resource-rich and biodiverse ecosystems, they are also some of the most disturbed by human activity. Today, social and economic needs for water diverted off-stream are often pitted against the flow of w…
Institutional Strategies for Adaptation to Water Stress in Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems of Nepal
Institutions governing common-pool resources have survived decades of global change with mixed performance. However, we have limited knowledge on how local institutions cope with and adapt to combined environmental and socio-economic changes. Using the case of 12 farmer-managed irrigation systems (FMIS) in Central and Western Nepal, this paper explores the institutional coping and adaptation mechanisms to water stress. We find that local irrigati…
The re-adaptation challenge
Assessing barriers and enablers in the institutionalization of river-basin adaptive management
Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia
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