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Article: Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity
Title | Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity | ||||||||||
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Issue Date | 2010 | ||||||||||
Publisher | Nature Publishing Group. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/nature | ||||||||||
Citation | Nature, 2010, v. 467 n. 7315, p. 555-561 How to Cite? | ||||||||||
Abstract | Protecting the worlds freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a spatial framework that quantifies multiple stressors and accounts for downstream impacts. We find that nearly 80% of the worlds population is exposed to high levels of threat to water security. Massive investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset high stressor levels without remedying their underlying causes, whereas less wealthy nations remain vulnerable. A similar lack of precautionary investment jeopardizes biodiversity, with habitats associated with 65% of continental discharge classified as moderately to highly threatened. The cumulative threat framework offers a tool for prioritizing policy and management responses to this crisis, and underscores the necessity of limiting threats at their source instead of through costly remediation of symptoms in order to assure global water security for both humans and freshwater biodiversity. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. | ||||||||||
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/140917 | ||||||||||
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 50.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 18.509 | ||||||||||
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Funding Information: We thank A. DeSherbinin, L. Poff, C. Revenga, J. Melillo and O. Young for comments on the manuscript; D. Allan, R. Abell, J. Bogardi, M. Meybeck, W. Wollheim, R. F. Wright, D. Boswell, R. Lacey, N. Schneider and D. Vorosmarty for advice; and D. Dube and B. Fekete for technical support. Grant support for database and tool development was from NASA Inter-Disciplinary Science Program Grant NNX07AF28G, with additional support from the NSF Division of Earth Sciences (Hydrologic Sciences Program Award #0854957) and Global Environment Facility (UPI 00345306). P.B.M. was supported by a D.H. Smith Fellowship. Financial and logistical support for expert group meetings and communications was from the Global Water System Project (Bonn), DIVERSITAS-freshwaterBIODIVERSITY (Paris), NSF BestNet, and Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the Australian Water Research Facility. Conference facilities were provided by the Swiss Federal Institute of Science & Technology (Eawag) and The City College of New York/CUNY. | ||||||||||
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dc.contributor.author | Vörösmarty, CJ | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | McIntyre, PB | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Gessner, MO | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Dudgeon, D | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Prusevich, A | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Green, P | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Glidden, S | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Bunn, SE | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Sullivan, CA | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Liermann, CR | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, PM | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-23T06:21:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-23T06:21:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature, 2010, v. 467 n. 7315, p. 555-561 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-0836 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/140917 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Protecting the worlds freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a spatial framework that quantifies multiple stressors and accounts for downstream impacts. We find that nearly 80% of the worlds population is exposed to high levels of threat to water security. Massive investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset high stressor levels without remedying their underlying causes, whereas less wealthy nations remain vulnerable. A similar lack of precautionary investment jeopardizes biodiversity, with habitats associated with 65% of continental discharge classified as moderately to highly threatened. The cumulative threat framework offers a tool for prioritizing policy and management responses to this crisis, and underscores the necessity of limiting threats at their source instead of through costly remediation of symptoms in order to assure global water security for both humans and freshwater biodiversity. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/nature | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature | en_HK |
dc.subject.mesh | Biodiversity | - |
dc.subject.mesh | Conservation of Natural Resources - methods - statistics and numerical data | - |
dc.subject.mesh | Internationality | - |
dc.subject.mesh | Rivers | - |
dc.subject.mesh | Water Supply | - |
dc.title | Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=0028-0836&volume=467&issue=7315&spage=555&epage=561&date=2010&atitle=Global+threats+to+human+water+security+and+river+biodiversity | - |
dc.identifier.email | Dudgeon, D: ddudgeon@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Dudgeon, D=rp00691 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/nature09440 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.pmid | 20882010 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-77957341228 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 194859 | en_US |
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dc.identifier.volume | 467 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 7315 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 555 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 561 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1476-4687 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000282273100031 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Vörösmarty, CJ=7003886966 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | McIntyre, PB=7202076665 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Gessner, MO=26534107100 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Dudgeon, D=7006559840 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Prusevich, A=36572451300 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Green, P=7402935038 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Glidden, S=36571764100 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Bunn, SE=7007032760 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Sullivan, CA=7202242692 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Liermann, CR=25651840700 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Davies, PM=7403894538 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 7926581 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0028-0836 | - |