At King's College London (KCL): Short URLs (all point to the same system, if one is offline for you, use another): On Amazon AWS (only used when KCL servers under maintenance) Developers: King's College London (models), AmbioTEK (software), CIAT, SEI, WWF, UNAL (applications) Audience: Conservation and development NGOs, GO and NGO Policy analysts, agriculture and industry (e.g. extractives), education and academic research. Associated project(s): CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food AN3 (Mechanisms for benefit sharing to improve productivity and reduce conflicts for water in the Andes) Focus: CompAndes is a web based tool based on AguAAndes and is developed as a Negotiation Support System (NSS) for negotiations around benefit sharing mechanisms for water. This NSS is a testbed for negotiations around benefit sharing mechanisms for water focusing on sustaining equitable flows of water for all through appropriate land, ecosystem and water management. It is focused on enabling the intended and unintended consequences of benefit sharing mechanisms to be tested in silico before they are tested in vivo . The NSS incorporates detailed spatial datasets at 1-square km and 1 hectare resolution for the entire world, spatial models for biophysical and socioeconomic processes along with scenarios for climate and land use. The NSS calculates a baseline for current water provision and allows a series of interventions (policy options) or scenarios of change to be used to understand their impact on water delivery to people and environment. Geographical coverage: global Spatial resolution: 10 degree tiles @ 1km resolution or 1 degree tiles @ 1-hectare resolution Temporal resolution: Monthly for baseline (1950-2000) and scenario Development status: Version 1: complete Version 2: ongoing - Let us know of new features you would find useful Versions: The version 1 model has a basic water balance (wind driven rainfall+fog - actual ET accumulated downstream as runoff) with land use and climate scenarios, see here Superuser version 1 (enables latest features but in development so liable to interface bugs) Advanced users only: Version 2 has all the components of version 1 but also incorporates soil erosion, transportation, deposition and a snow and ice model as well as policy options for land management, see here Standard version 2 (model in development) Superuser version 2 (model in development, superuser enables latest features but in development so liable to interface bugs) Heavy users: CPWF Key references: Mulligan and Burke (2005); Mulligan et al. (2010); Bruijnzeel, Mulligan and Scatena (2011) |
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