Water stresses and responses in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone

cg.contributor.affiliationAqua Rock Konsultantsen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.coverage.countryMyanmar
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MM
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierPetra Schmitter: 0000-0002-3826-7224en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16648-8_3en
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH051669en
cg.isbn9783031166471en
cg.isbn9783031166488en
cg.issn2523-8124en
cg.issn2523-8132en
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorDrury, L.en
dc.contributor.authorJohnston, R.en
dc.contributor.authorSchmitter, Petraen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-31T23:31:22Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-31T23:31:22Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/128374
dc.titleWater stresses and responses in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zoneen
dcterms.abstractThe Central Dry Zone (CDZ) of Myanmar is the heartland of the Burmese culture, and in many ways, it is socially and culturally coherent with the other rice-centred cultures of mainland Southeast Asia. In climatic terms, it is a semi-arid outlier in a mostly wet-tropical region. Climate change is exacerbating weather variability and water insecurity, and the CDZ thus epitomises the challenges posed by climate change for much of the region. This chapter describes two examples of interventions aimed at addressing water insecurity in the CDZ: pumped irrigation at Pyawt Ywar; and artesian groundwater in the Pale Subbasin. Both address the interconnections between social and physical drivers of vulnerability. They demonstrate the challenges and importance of working across institutional scales. These examples demonstrate that progress is possible at local levels despite a lack of (or inappropriate) national policy and regulations, which limit the scale, and possibly the long-term sustainability of such gains.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2023-01-08en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDrury, L.; Johnston, R.; Schmitter, Petra. 2023. Water stresses and responses in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone. In Ojha, H.; Schofield, N.; Camkin, J. (Eds.). Climate risks to water security: framing effective response in Asia and the Pacific. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.37-60. (Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16648-8_3]en
dcterms.descriptionIn Ojha, H.; Schofield, N.; Camkin, J. (Eds.). Climate risks to water security: framing effective response in Asia and the Pacific. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillanen
dcterms.extentp. 37-60en
dcterms.issued2023en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectwater stressen
dcterms.subjectarid zonesen
dcterms.subjectwater scarcityen
dcterms.subjectsurface wateren
dcterms.subjectsurface irrigationen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater irrigationen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater managementen
dcterms.subjecttube wellsen
dcterms.subjectaquifersen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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