International Journal of Water Resources Development

2011 - 2025

Current editor(s): Cecilia Tortajada

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Volume 41, issue 5-6, 2025

Correction pp. iii-iii

The Editors

China’s water challenges: present and future–special issue honouring academician Liu Changming pp. 855-862

Asit K. Biswas, Qiuhong Tang and Cecilia Tortajada

Balancing people and nature’s needs in a changing climate Yellow River Basin: challenges and opportunities pp. 863-883

Fangbing Xu, Yangbo Sun, Xiaohui Jiang, Nuo Chen and Lin Zhang

Bridging through the storm: legal frameworks for managing urban flash floods in China pp. 884-901

Heping Dang and Raymond Yu Wang

China’s water security under a changing environment pp. 902-927

Yuanyuan Li, Ying Tian, Yue Zhang, Zhongnan Zhao, Mingyan Tian and Qingyang Luo

China’s eight water risks pp. 928-949

Olli Varis and Dandan Zhao

Decoding China’s water rights revolution in the new century: transitioning from a centralized to a hybrid system pp. 950-973

Yahua Wang, Han Lyu and Mengdi Cao

Digital twin technology and its application in water governance: China’s practices and achievements pp. 974-989

Jing Peng

Effect of terrestrial water storage deficit on economic growth for China pp. 990-1000

Yijia Ren, Qiuhong Tang, Siao Sun and Paul P.J. Gaffney

Hydrologic nonlinear system approach and its support for water disaster prevention in China pp. 1001-1010

Jun Xia, Yuntao Zhu and Ying Xue

Integrating water resources, water environment and water ecology in China: demands, challenges and recommendations pp. 1011-1026

Dajun Shen and Fei Fan

Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses pp. 1027-1044

Hui Liu, Siao Sun, Chuanglin Fang, Qiuhong Tang and Ting Ma

Water security in the Qinling Mountains: current status, climate and human influences, and adaptive strategies pp. 1045-1074

Xiaofei Li, Peiyue Li and Jifa Liu

Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse pp. 1075-1091

Kris Hartley

Volume 41, issue 4, 2025

Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law pp. 697-716

Patricia K. Wouters and David J. Devlaeminck

China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric? pp. 717-738

Sayanangshu Modak and Nilanjan Ghosh

Hydraulic pressure in the Middle East and South/Southeast Asia: comparing Israeli and Chinese ‘Melian Dialogue’ pp. 739-766

Gürol Baba

Media discourse on drinking water before and after a major campylobacteriosis outbreak in New Zealand pp. 767-788

Marnie Prickett, Simon Hales, Nick Wilson, John Kerr, Tim Chambers, Leah Grout and Michael G. Baker

Assessing the importance of gender transformative WASH: evidence from a gender-mainstreamed WASH programme in Bangladesh pp. 789-811

Sarah Dickin, Sabiha Siddique, Carla Liera, Gin Dupont and Elijah Bisung

Addressing the housing crisis in Irish towns: an exploration of water infrastructure capacity challenges pp. 812-833

Eva Buckley, Philip Crowe and Sarah Cotterill

The regulation, governance and performance of the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales pp. 834-845

Sue Jaffer

Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance? pp. 846-854

Tadesse Kebebew, Laura Turley, Danilo Türk and Mark Zeitoun

Volume 41, issue 3, 2025

How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system pp. 513-539

Majid Rahimi, Mehdi Ghorbani and Khaled Ahmadaali

Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey pp. 540-562

Ramazan Caner Sayan, Arda Bilgen and Ayşegül Kibaroğlu

Transformative change of Jordan’s water system: reconfiguring competitive water users into mutual service providers pp. 563-579

Gerardo E. van Halsema, Chris Seijger, Maria Christoforidou, Gerlo Borghuis, Barteld J. Vervelde and Petra Hellegers

Collaborative multiscale water resources planning in England pp. 580-605

Ali Leonard, Jaime Amezaga, Richard Blackwell, Elizabeth Lewis, Chris Kilsby and Anna Murgatroyd

Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947 pp. 606-624

Dajun Shen, Fei Fan and Tingting Zhang

Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute pp. 625-646

Muhammad Nazrul Abd Rani and Rasyikah Md Khalid

Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults pp. 647-666

Jale Tosun, Marc Debus, Simon Schaub, Sina Klein, Ulrike Scherer, Timo Goeschl and Harald Horn

Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water pp. 667-687

Chloé Nicolas-Artero and Gustavo Blanco-Wells

Depoliticizing disasters: the need to break down water bureaucracy with the changing climate in South Asia pp. 688-696

Anamika Barua, Protiva Adhikary and Sumit Vij

Volume 41, issue 2, 2025

Critical reflections on transforming smallholder irrigation systems from dysfunctional to functional climate smart agricultural systems pp. 223-228

Henning Bjornlund, Karen Parry, Andre van Rooyen and Jamie Pittock

Reviewing the Green Revolution strategy in view of lessons from Mexico and India – Africa pp. 229-273

Vibeke Bjornlund and Henning Bjornlund

Adapting smallholder irrigation systems to extreme events: a case of the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa (TISA) project in Zimbabwe pp. 274-297

Martin Moyo, Thabani Dube, Andre van Rooyen, Henning Bjornlund, Karen Parry, Michael Wellington, Peter Ramshaw and Jamie Pittock

Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique pp. 298-324

Miguel Tafula, Mário Chilundo, Wilson de Sousa, Henning Bjornlund, Jamie Pittock, Peter Ramshaw and Michael Wellington

Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation systems at Kiwere and Magozi schemes in Tanzania pp. 325-349

Makarius Mdemu, Luitfred Kissoly, Emmanuel Kimaro, Henning Bjornlund, Peter Ramshaw, Jamie Pittock, Michael Wellington and Sophia Bongole

The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 350-373

Henning Bjornlund, Karen Parry, Luitfred Kissoly, Thabani Dube, Angeline Mujeyi, Wilson de Sousa, Jamie Pittock and Vibeke Bjornlund

Women, youth, and tail-end users: improving the livelihoods of disadvantaged irrigators in southern Africa pp. 374-401

Karen Parry, Henning Bjornlund, Makarius Mdemu, Thabani Dube and Miguel Tafula

Youth living around irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe: their livelihoods and role in the local economy pp. 402-427

Karen Parry

Soil water sensors that display colours as thresholds for action pp. 428-446

Richard Stirzaker and Matthew Driver

Application of social network analysis in determining innovation information exchange at irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe pp. 447-465

Xolile Ncube and Jamie Pittock

Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project pp. 466-488

Xolile Ncube, James Pittock, Henning Bjornlund and Andre van Rooyen

Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 489-511

Andre van Rooyen, Henning Bjornlund, Martin Moyo, Jamie Pittock, Karen Parry and Angeline Mujeyi

Volume 41, issue 1, 2025

A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea pp. 1-8

Stefanos Xenarios, Serik Orazgaliyev, Ali Torabi Haghighi and Bjorn Kløve

Determining factors for changes in the ice regime of the Caspian Sea pp. 9-30

Zhanar Naurozbayeva, Aziza Baubekova, Anastasia Kvasha, Vladimir Lobanov, Bjorn Kløve and Ali Torabi Haghighi

Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation over the Caspian Sea pp. 31-56

S. Mahya Hoseini, Mohsen Soltanpour and Mohammad R. Zolfaghari

Modelling extreme precipitation projections under the effects of climate change: case study of the Caspian Sea pp. 57-77

Sogol Moradian, Salem Gharbia, Ali Torabi Haghighi and Indiana A. Olbert

Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran pp. 78-101

Sahand Ghadimi, AmirHossein Ahrari, Epari Ritesh Patro, Mahdi Akbari, Kiomars Sefidi, Bjorn Klöve and Ali Torabi Haghighi

The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach) pp. 102-128

Forough Fendereski

Navigating risk in Caspian sturgeon conservation: mapping manager risk perceptions with species conservation measures pp. 129-151

Callie Berman

Assessing socio-economic and natural vulnerability to oil spills: a case study of Azerbaijan’s Caspian shoreline pp. 152-175

Jessica Neafie, Maira Albakassova and Emil Bayramov

Towards multi-modal oil spill detection and coverage in the Caspian Sea: a comprehensive approach pp. 176-203

Alpamys Pentayev, Amirhossein Ahrari, Aziza Baubekova, Maksat Faizuldanov, Nurzhan Nurtayev, Alireza Sharifi, Ali Torabi Haghighi, Stefanos Xenarios and Siamac Fazli

Assessing the tourism efficiency in the Caspian Sea region pp. 204-221

Ruslan Nurmatov, Simeon Nanovsky, Xose Luis Fernandez Lopez, Pedro Pablo Coto Millan and David Paz Saavedra