Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures

ISWEL Indus Basin Team

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2019.10.006

Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures

ISWEL Indus Basin Team

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Abstract

The Indus River Basin covers an area of around 1 million square kilometers and connects four countries: Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan. More than 300 million people depend to some extent on the basin's water, yet a growing population, increasing food and energy demands, climate change, and shifting monsoon patterns are exerting increasing pressure. Under these pressures, a “business as usual” (BAU) approach is no longer sustainable, and decision makers and wider stakeholders are calling for more integrated and inclusive development pathways that are in line with achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we propose an integrated nexus modeling framework co-designed with regional stakeholders from the four riparian countries of the Indus River Basin and discuss challenges and opportunities for developing transformation pathways for the basin's future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-194
Number of pages	10
Journal	One Earth
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.10.006
State	Published - Oct 25 2019
Externally published	Yes

Funding

The authors acknowledge the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for funding the development of this research as part of the ISWEL project (GEF contract agreement 6993 ) and the support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) . The authors also acknowledge the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) National Member Organizations and member countries for their financial contribution. The research was also supported by the University of Victoria’s Building Connections internal grant and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada . Part of the hydrological model development was financially supported by the Belmont Forum Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative ’s Food-Water-Energy Nexus theme, for which coordination and research were supported by the US National Science Foundation under grant ICER/EAR-1829999 to Stanford University and by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency under the FUSE project funded to IIASA (grant agreement 730254 ). The views expressed herein are the personal views of the co-authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies or views of the organizations they are affiliated with.

Funders	Funder number
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
National Science Foundation	ICER/EAR-1829999
National Science Foundation
Stanford University
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Victoria University
Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis	730254
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Keywords

capacity building
co-design
energy
food
Indus
integrated nexus modeling
nexus
partnership
SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
water future

UN SDGs

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