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DOI	10.1038/s41558-024-01929-z
	Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands
	Piemontese, Luigi; Terzi, Stefano; Di Baldassarre, Giuliano; Menestrey Schwieger, Diego A.; Castelli, Giulio; Bresci, Elena
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1758-678X
EISSN	1758-6798
英文摘要	Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, causing water shortages, famines, migration and fatalities. The construction of new small water infrastructures (SWIs), such as deep wells and boreholes, is increasingly supported by climate resilience programmes of non-governmental organizations and national governments to improve water availability for agro-pastoralists, especially as an emergency response to extreme droughts. Although the short-term benefits of SWI are clear, their potential cumulative impact and their long-term effects on the resilience of dryland communities remain unclear. Here, building on in-depth anthropological literature from five key African drylands, we model post-drought pastoralists' dynamics related to SWI. We show that while developing new SWI releases water shortages in the short term, it can erode traditional adaptation practices without adequate governance. We further illustrate how our model captures early quantitative signals of resilience loss in dryland Angola. This indicates that poorly governed water development in African drylands can be a limiting factor for the long-term resilience of pastoral communities facing a range of social, demographic, economic and climate challenges. Building additional water infrastructure such as wells is a key strategy to mitigate the impacts of severe droughts, particularly in drylands. This study shows, however, that this infrastructure can lead to loss of resilience under climate change due to erosion of traditional practices.
英文关键词	POLICY; KENYA; PERCEPTIONS; RESOURCES; FRAMEWORK; PATHWAYS; KARAMOJA; DROUGHT; SCIENCE; FOREST
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001163550700001
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/282439
作者单位	University of Florence; European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano; European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano; Centre of Natural Hazards & Disaster Science (CNDS); Uppsala University; University of Cologne; University of Geneva; University of Geneva
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Piemontese, Luigi,Terzi, Stefano,Di Baldassarre, Giuliano,et al. Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands[J],2024.
APA	Piemontese, Luigi,Terzi, Stefano,Di Baldassarre, Giuliano,Menestrey Schwieger, Diego A.,Castelli, Giulio,&Bresci, Elena.(2024).Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands.Nature Climate Change.
MLA	Piemontese, Luigi,et al."Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands".Nature Climate Change (2024).