An Integrated Assessment Methodology to Capture the Physical and Socio-Economic Dimensions of Vulnerability to Saline Intrusion Climate.....

我的研究兴趣在于水WISER CDT计划的地下水和水资源管理以及气候，WASH，洪水和恢复力部门。我们的世界不断提醒我们，现在的自满是如何将我们锁定在一个有保障的资源稀缺，不稳定和冲突的未来。其后果是不成比例的，往往影响到那些不仅更容易受到气候相关冲击的人，而且影响到那些已经处于持续紧急状态、资源匮乏和缺乏持续支持的人。水是我们最宝贵的资源，其需求量日益增加，人口增长、冲突导致的重新分配和土地侵占进一步加剧了这一问题，导致人类文明所依赖的自然系统遭到破坏和衰退。随着半干旱地区地表水资源的枯竭，地下水资源不断被用作家庭和农业供水（包括牲畜）的缓冲。紧急供水响应者往往会按照国际捐助者对有形供水系统安装的优先事项采取行动，因此，我们通常会面临地下水资源管理不善的情况。环境破坏和基础设施完全超出社区的运营和维护能力，导致基础设施高度失灵、资金浪费和水资源压力增加，尽管进行了大量研究和调查，以建立我们对半干旱地区生计、行为和运动模式的认识和理解，但很少有数字模型和技术工具被用于绘制地下水资源图，量化承压含水层系统并监测地下水抽取情况。地下水建模、地球物理勘探和遥感是可用于提高水系统复原力和可靠性的几种方法。如果建立机制，有效保护、管理和合理利用地下水，以满足家庭供水、粮食和牲畜的需求，我们最终可以在目前和未来拥有可持续的资源。我的硕士研究集中在阿法尔，埃塞俄比亚，在那里我目睹了环境，结构和季节性差异如何导致水资源压力增加，环境卫生和个人卫生问题的牧场牧区社区的WASH行为。这促使我有兴趣更好地为决策者、从业人员和研究人员提供向这些社区推广讲卫生服务所需的工具和理解。我在乌干达的GOAL和在非洲和亚洲的地下水救援的实际实地工作促使我需要解决这些问题。虽然有广泛而复杂的应对措施适用于气候相关问题，但我们比以往任何时候都更了解到预防比寻找治疗方法成本低得多。地下水在干旱应急响应中的使用不可避免地在增加，如果积极主动的机制而不是被动反应的机制到位，地下水开采、供水系统故障和环境破坏的现实将远远没有那么有害。我的研究想法源于目睹人道主义和发展部门缺乏实际和技术解决方案来规划，设计和监测未知土地和经常被边缘化的社区的地下水勘探。这些领域对传统的讲卫生方案提出了挑战，我们需要接触鼓励更明智地利用自然资源的技术工具，以帮助我们重新设想我们的应对措施，以覆盖那些最边缘化和难以服务的群体。

My research interests lie within the Groundwater and Water Resource Management and Climate, WASH, Flooding and Resilience divisions of the Water WISER CDT programme.Our world is constantly reminding us of how complacency now is locking us into a future of guaranteed resource scarcity, instability and conflict. The consequences are disproportional, often landing on those who are not only more exposed to climate related shocks, but on those who are already in a constant state of emergency with few resources and lack sustained support. Water, our most precious resource, is under increasing demand, further exacerbated by population growth, conflict related redistribution and land encroachment, resulting in a disruption and decline of natural systems on which the human civilisation depends.As surface water resources deplete across semi-arid regions, groundwater resources are continuously used as a buffer for domestic and agricultural water supply, including livestock. Emergency water supply responders tend to act to priorities demanded by international donors for tangible water system installations, and as a result, we are commonly left with mismanaged groundwater resources. Environmental damage and infrastructures that are totally out of the community's capacity to operate and maintain give rise to a high degree of infrastructure failure, wasted funding and increased water stress.Despite a wealth of research and investigation to build our knowledge and understanding of livelihoods, behaviours and movement patterns across semi-arid regions, very few numerical models and technical tools are being used to map groundwater resources, quantify stressed aquifer systems and monitor groundwater abstraction. Groundwater modelling, geophysical exploration and remote sensing are a few methods that can be employed to increase the resilience and reliability of water systems. If mechanisms were in place to effectively protect, manage and sensibly use groundwater to meet demands for domestic water supply, food and livestock, ultimately, we could have a sustainable resource at present and into the future. My MSc research focussed on the WASH behaviours of pastoral communities in the rangelands of Afar, Ethiopia, where I witnessed how environmental, structural and seasonal differences contribute to increased water stress, sanitation and hygiene issues. This prompted my interest towards better supplying decision-makers, practitioners and researchers with tools and the understanding needed to extend WASH services to these communities. My practical field work with GOAL in Uganda and Groundwater Relief across Africa and Asia has driven my need to address such issues.Whilst there is a broad and complex range of response measures to apply to climate related issues, more than ever we are learning that prevention is much less costly than finding a cure. The use of groundwater in drought emergency response is inevitably increasing and should proactive, rather than reactive, mechanisms be in place, the reality of groundwater exploitation, water system failure and environmental damage would be far less detrimental.My research ideas stem from witnessing the lack of practical and technical solutions being used in the humanitarian and development sectors to plan, design and monitor groundwater exploration in unknown lands and often marginalised communities. These areas challenge conventional WASH programming, and we need exposure to technical tools that encourage smarter use of natural resources to help us re-imagine our response to reach those most marginalised and difficult to serve groups.