Assessing impacts of agriculture and dams on hydrological ES to people and dams in the Volta basin using the WaterWorld hydrological model

This guide focuses on how to run a baseline analysis using the WaterWorld hydrological model (Mulligan, 2013) with a particular focus on using two WaterWorld metrics to examine the impact of agriculture on hydrological ecosystem services to people and small dams and then the impact of small dams on hydrological ecosystem services provided to people. The former is assessed using the model results-based hydrological footprint - which calculates the hydrological footprint (downstream influence) of cropland based on modelled water balance and runoff. This assesses the volume of water potentially influenced by a land cover type in relation to the total volume of water in flow. The latter is assessed using the model results-based flow footprint (WWFF) - which calculates the flow footprint (downstream influence) of small dams based on modelled water balance and runoff. The flow footprint is a special case of the hydrological footprint for in-stream features such as dams rather than on-land features such as land uses, but is calculated in the same way. The number of people affected are calculated as the first (dis-)beneficiaries of these footprints according to the spatial distribution of population in relation to the footprints. This accounts for the footprints influence on these first beneficiaries (water users, irrigators, fishers) but not for the impact of these footprints on supply chain beneficiaries through for example increased prices as a result of reduced availability

2013 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Executive Officers and Top Earners

This census shows the number of women in top earner and executive positions in Fortune 500 companies and compares the results to previous years

Project A1a: On designing and implementing benefit-sharing mechanisms :

This is about identifying which benefit-sharing and coordination mechanisms work best under which circumstances for basins anywhere in the Andes and the reasons underpinning failure or success in specific basin instances. It is about providing a common platform - a negotiation support system - as a means of informing the BSM negotiation process with the best available knowledge. The project will seek to identify the variables that need to be taken into account when BSM are designed and proposed as ways to curb rural poverty and environmental degradation. The possible effects of global change on these variables will be analyzed, along with the likelihood that changes in these variables will impact the viability of BSM. Adaptations to BSM that may help them accommodate global change will be explored