Aral Sea Studies
Dr. Daene C. McKinney
Center for Research in Water
Resources
The University of Texas at Austin
Since 1994, researchers from the Center for Research in Water
Resources
(CRWR) at
The University of Texas at Austin have been engaged in a program of developing water
resource allocation tools (optimization-based ) for use in the Aral Sea Basin of Central Asia. This research has
been funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Environmental Policy
and Technology (EPT) project, USAID Environmental Policies and Institutions for
Central Asia (EPIC) Program, the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the US National Committee on Scientific Hydrology. Some
of the results of this research are available at the links listed below. For more
information, contact Dr. Daene McKinney at: Daene@AOL.com.
Where is the Aral Sea? Press here to find out ====>
New and Interesting:
Research Reports, Publications and Software:
-
An EPIC Water Management Model for the Development of
Long-term Water Allocation for the Lower Amudarya River Delta
(paper accepted for publication in Environmental Modeling and Software, 2005)
-
Cooperative Management of
Transboundary Water Resources in Central Asia
(in
In the Tracks of
Tamerlane-Central Asia’s Path into the 21st Century,
D. Burghart and T. Sabonis-Helf (eds.), National Defense University Press, pp.
187-220, 2004)
- Basin-Scale Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia
(Paper presented at 3rd World Water Forum, Kyoto, Japan, March
18, 2003)
- An
Integrated Hydrologic-Agronomic-Economic Model for River Basin Management
(J.
Water Resour. Planning and Management, 129(1):4-17, 2003)
-
Linking GIS and Water Resources Management Models: An
Object-Oriented Method
(Environmental Modeling and Software,
17(5):413-425, 2002)
- Sustainable Irrigation Water Management with
Lessons from the Aral Sea Region, Agricultural Systems, accepted 2001.
(paper accepted for publication in Agricultural Systems, 2002)
-
Optimization of Syr Darya Water and Energy Uses
(Water
International, 27(4): 504-516, 2002)
-
A
Framework for Sustainability Analysis in Water Resources Management and
Application to the Syr Darya Basin
(Water
Resour. Res., Vol. 38, No. 6, 2002)
Powerpoint presentation on this
topic (ASCE EWRI Conference 2001 Orlando)
- Sustainability Analysis for Irrigation Water
Management: Concepts, Methodology, and Application to the Aral Sea Region
(Discussion
Paper No. 86, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC,
2001)
- EPIC
Program Reports Archive
(FTP site with the archive of the reports produced for under the USAID
Environmental Policies
and Institutions for Central Asia --EPIC-- Program during 1998 - 2000)
-
Optimization
of the Use of Water and Energy Resources in the Syrdarya Basin Under Current
Conditions
(USAID/EPIC Program Modeling Group, Technical Report, June 2000)
- Aral
Sea Water Rights
(CRWR Online Report 98-3: Sandra Akmansoy, and Daene C. McKinney, January
1998)
- Options Analysis of the Operation of Toktogul Reservoir
(USAID/EPT Project, Issue Paper No. 7, John Keith and Daene
McKinney, 1997)
- Multiobjective Water Resource Allocation Model
for Toktogul Reservoir
(USAID/EPT Project, Technical Report, Daene C.
McKinney and Ximing Cai, 1997)
- Aral Sea
Regional Allocation Model for the Amudarya River
(USAID/EPT
Project, Technical Report, Daene C. McKinney, Akmal Kh. Karimov and Ximing Cai,
1997)
- Amu Darya River Water Allocation
(USAID/EPT
Project, Technical Report, Akmal Kh. Karimov and Daene C. McKinney, 1996)
-
The
Aral - Coming to the Aid of a Dying Sea
(newsletter article,
1996)
- Sustainable Water Management in the Aral Sea Basin
(Water Resources Update, Universities Council on Water
Resources, Issue No. 102: Winter, 1996)
- Multiobjective Optimization Model for Water Allocation in the Aral
Sea Basin
(conference paper, American Institute of Hydrology-CIS, 1996)
- Multiobjective Model for Negotiation in Regional Water Resource
Allocation
(conference paper, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)
Other Sites:
Interesting things:
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