Connect4 water resilience: connecting water resources, communities, drought and flood hazards, and governance across 4 countries in the Limpopo basin

Connect4 水弹性：连接林波波河流域 4 个国家的水资源、社区、干旱和洪水灾害以及治理

• 批准号: NE/S005943/1
• 负责人: Jean-Christophe Comte
• 金额: $ 33.83万
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS005943%2F1
• 关键词: Connect4; water; resilience; connecting; resources

The 'CONNECT4 water resilience' project brings together a multidisciplinary team of hydrologists and sociologists from academia, policy and practice in the UK, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to investigate the physical and societal factors affecting vulnerability and resilience to drought and floods in 4 countries of the Limpopo River Basin (LRB). The research will provide a better understanding of the connectivity within and between physical and social aspects of vulnerability to improve societal preparedness and resilience to flood and drought hazards in arid Sub-Saharan regions. The LRB is an arid, water-stressed basin, yet with high susceptibility to floods. It encompasses a large diversity of physical and socio-economical characteristics spread across four countries (Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique). Floods and droughts have been shown to exacerbate water availability and quality problems and are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude.We will focus on the challenges and opportunities during floods following droughts in the LRB, when aquifers and communities are already under stress, and when appropriate flood management could improve short term coping mechanisms and long-term resilience for future dry seasons. We will explore to what extent geographical differences between sub-regions influence how water resources respond to, and how people cope with floods and droughts in order to inform appropriate water management strategies at various scales (local to transnational).The research will articulate around three integrated workpackages (WP). WP1 will assess basin-scale hydrological connectivity, i.e. how droughts and floods propagate in space and time under varying physical conditions (hydrometeorology, physiography, geology, groundwater-surface water interactions), with a focus on how the hydrological response of a specific sub-region influences or is influenced by other regions. This will be achieved though implementation of a basin-scale groundwater-surface water modelling approach and based on existing datasets, in part collected by the project team. Outputs will aid to improve transnational flood and drought monitoring networks and update susceptibility mapping.WP2 will assess the basin-scale social connectivity, i.e. how drought-flood cycles are understood, anticipated and worked with by local communities and how these communities interact with governance institutions. This will be achieved by carrying out interviews with diverse community groups and with key community-government intermediaries such as extension officers and catchment management fora. Outputs will contribute to understanding how drought/flood risk is perceived by communities and to develop better communication.WP3 will integrate WP1 and WP2 and will work on the connectivity between social and hydrological systems. It will connect our understanding of multiscale hydrological processes underlying alternating droughts and floods with water resource and risk management, and societal preparedness pathways. This aims to co-create management solutions to reduce impacts and increase benefits of drought-flood cycles throughout the LRB. It will use an iterative, co-production process to strengthen crucial bridges between scientists and water management stakeholders on the appropriate scale(s).Research outputs will impact (1) people in the LRB and arid regions through enhanced awareness and preparedness to flood and droughts, leading to increased resilience; (2) local and regional authorities via improved hydrological monitoring networks and a strengthened connection from local to transnational levels of governance; (3) general public through public engagement activities; (4) international academics via publications and socio-hydrological datasets on public databases, training of African under- and postgraduate students and development of early career researchers.

“连接4水弹性”项目汇集了来自英国，博茨瓦纳，南非，津巴布韦和莫桑比克的学术界，政策和实践的水文学家和社会学家的多学科团队，以调查影响林波波河流域（LRB）4个国家对干旱和洪水的脆弱性和恢复力的物理和社会因素。这项研究将更好地了解脆弱性的物理和社会方面内部和之间的联系，以改善撒哈拉以南干旱地区对洪水和干旱灾害的社会准备和复原力。LRB是一个干旱、缺水的盆地，但对洪水的敏感性很高。它包括分布在四个国家（博茨瓦纳、南非、津巴布韦和莫桑比克）的各种各样的自然和社会经济特征。洪水和干旱已被证明会加剧水资源的可用性和质量问题，预计其频率和规模将增加。我们将重点关注LRB干旱后洪水期间的挑战和机遇，此时含水层和社区已经处于压力之下，适当的洪水管理可以改善短期应对机制和未来旱季的长期恢复能力。我们将探讨次区域之间的地理差异在多大程度上影响水资源如何应对，以及人们如何科普洪水和干旱，以便为各种规模（地方到跨国）的适当水资源管理战略提供信息。WP 1将评估流域尺度的水文连通性，即在不同的物理条件（水文气象学、自然地理学、地质学、地下水-地表水相互作用）下，干旱和洪水如何在空间和时间上传播，重点是特定次区域的水文响应如何影响其他区域或受其他区域的影响。这将通过实施流域尺度地下水-地表水建模方法并以项目小组部分收集的现有数据集为基础来实现。工作方案2将评估流域范围的社会连通性，即地方社区如何理解、预测和处理旱涝周期，以及这些社区如何与治理机构互动。这将通过与不同的社区团体和主要的社区政府中介机构，如推广官员和集水管理论坛进行访谈来实现。产出将有助于了解社区如何看待干旱/洪水风险，并促进更好的沟通。工作方案3将整合工作方案1和工作方案2，并将致力于社会和水文系统之间的连通性。它将把我们对干旱和洪水交替的多尺度水文过程的理解与水资源和风险管理以及社会准备途径联系起来。这旨在共同创建管理解决方案，以减少整个LRB的旱涝周期的影响并增加其效益。研究成果将通过提高对洪水和干旱的认识和准备，影响（1）LRB和干旱地区的人们，从而提高复原力;（2）通过改进水文监测网络和加强地方与跨国各级治理的联系，加强地方和区域当局;（3）通过公众参与活动吸引公众;（4）通过出版物和公共数据库中的社会水文数据集吸引国际学者，培训非洲大学生和研究生，培养早期职业研究人员。

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