New publications

27 May A new report by the UN Environment Programme and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Freshwater under Threat – South East Asia, has found that countries in South East Asia should act now to secure the region’s abundant water supplies into the future. http://www.roap.unep.org/press/NR09-07.html

Journal papers (published, submitted and in review)

1. Mainuddin, M., Kirby, M.. Spatial and Temporal Trend of Water Productivity in the LowerMekongRiver Basin. Journal Agricultural Water  Management (in review).

2. Mainuddin, M., Kirby, M., Agricultural Productivity in the LowerMekongBasin: Trends and Future Prospects. Agricultural Systems (in review)

3. Kemp-Benedict, E., Chadwick, M. T., Krittasudthacheewa, C. ‘A Combined Data-Based and Participatory Bayesian Approach to Mapping          Water-  Related Poverty’. Ecology and Society (In preparation).

4. Kemp-Benedict, E., Swartz, C., Krittasudthacheewa, C., de la Rosa, E. Application of the Bayesian Belief Networks and Water Evaluation and      Planning System to Explore the Livelihood Impacts of Changes in Water-Related Constraints on Livelihoods: 1. Tonle Sap case study  (in      preparation)

5. Kemp-Benedict, E., Swartz, C., Krittasudthacheewa, C., de la Rosa, E. Application of the Bayesian Belief Networks and Water Evaluation and      Planning System to Explore the Livelihood Impacts of Changes in Water-Related Constraints on Livelihoods: 2. Northeast Thailand (Si Sa Ket)      case study. (in preparation)

6. Kemp-Benedict, E., Swartz, C., Krittasudthacheewa, C., de la Rosa, E. (to be prepared after a refinement of the models). ‘Application of the      Bayesian Belief Networks and Water Evaluation and Planning System to Explore the Livelihood Impacts of Changes in Water-Related Constraints on Livelihoods: 1. Tonle Sap case study . (in preparation).

Conference presentations and papers

1. Kemp-Benedict, E., Chadwick, M. T., Krittasudthacheewa, C. (2008). ‘The Bayesian Methods for Livelihood, Water and Poverty Analysis’. 2nd CPWF International Forum on Water and Food, Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia, 9-14 November 2008.

2. Krittasudthacheewa, C. (2008). Changes of Mekong’s Hydrology and Their Relationship to the Fisheries Sector, invited keynote speech in the International Symposium on Sustaining Fish Biodiversity, Fisheries and Aquacultures in the Mekong, 3-5 September 2008, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.

3. Krittasudthacheewa, C. (2008). Changes of Mekong’s Hydrology and Their Relationship to the Fisheries Sector, invited keynote speech in the International Symposium on Sustaining Fish Biodiversity, Fisheries and Aquacultures in the Mekong, 3-5 September 2008, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.

4. Kirby, M. and Mainuddin, M., (2008). Water management and food issues in SE Asia. Invited talk at the International Symposium on Agrometeorology and Food Security, Feb 18-21, 2008, Hyderabad, India

5. Kirby, J. M. and Mainuddin, M., (2008). Water and Agricultural Productivity in the LowerMekongBasin: Trends and Future Prospects. Paper to be presented in the 13th IWRA World Water Congress on Global Changes and Water Resources, 1-4 September, Montpellier, France.

6. Kirby, M., Mainuddin, M., Mobin-ud-Din, A., Marchand, P., and Zhang, L. (2006a). 'Water use account spreadsheets with examples of some major river basins', in 9th International River Symposium, 4 September, 2006-7 September, 2006, Brisbane.

7. Kirby, M., Mainuddin, M., Podger, G., and Zhang, L. (2006b). 'Basin water use accounting method with application to the Mekong Basin', in Proceedings on the International Symposium on Managing Water Supply for Growing Demand, Bangkok, Thailand, 16-20 October 2006, Sethaputra, S. and Promma, K. eds, UNESCO, Jakarta.

Reports/working papers

1. de la Rosa, E., Chadwick, M. T. (2008). Wealth Ranking Study. Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
2. Kemp-Benedict, E. (2008a). Bayesian Method for Poverty Mapping. Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
3. Kemp-Benedict, E. (2008b). Report on Bayesian Network Livelihood Models. Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
4. Kemp-Benedict, E. (2008c). Technical Report on New Elicitation Techniques. Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
5. Krittasudthacheewa, C., Kemp-Benedict, E. (2008). Expert Review of Poverty Maps Generated with the Median Value Method. Report for the       Challenge Program on Water and Food.
6. Krittasudthacheewa, C., Swartz, C., Chadwick, M. T. (submitted). ‘Impact of Climate Change and Hydropower Dam in the MekongRiver Basin’.      Abstract submitted to the International Conference on An International Perspective on Environmental and Water Resources, January 5-7      2009, Bangkok, Thailand. Organized by the Environmental & Water Resources Institute of ASCE (EWRI of ASCE) in cooperation with Asian      Institute of Technology (AIT).
7. SEI and FACT (2008). Household Level Investigation on Water Poverty and Livelihoods: 1. Tonle Sap Case Study. Report for the Challenge      Program on Water and Food.
8. SEI and GMSSRC (2008). Household Level Investigation on Water Poverty and Livelihoods: 2. Northeast Thailand (Si Sa Ket) Case Study.      Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
9. SEI and MDI (2008). Household Level Investigation on Water Poverty and Livelihoods: 3. Mekong Delta Case Study. Report for the Challenge      Program on Water and Food.
10. Swartz, C., Krittasudthacheewa, C., Kemp-Benedict, E. (2008). Application of the Water Evaluation And Planning System in the MekongRiver      Basin. Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
11. Kirby, M., Eastham, J., Mainuddin, M. (2008). ChallengeProgramBasin Water Use Accounts: 1.Background and Introduction. Report for the      Challenge Program on Water and Food.
12. Kirby, M., Mainuddin, M. Eastham, J. (2008). ChallengeProgramBasin Water Use Accounts: 2. Model Concepts and Description. Report for the      Challenge Program on Water and Food.
13. Kirby, M., Mainuddin, M., Thomas, M. and Eastham, J. (2008). ChallengeProgramBasin Water Use Accounts: 7. MekongBasin Water Use Account.      Report for the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
14. Kirby, M., Eastham, J., Mainuddin, M. (2008). ChallengeProgramBasin Water Use Accounts: 13. Spreadsheet Description and Use. Report for the      Challenge Program on Water and Food.
15. Mainuddin, M., Kirby, M. and Chen, Y. (under review). Fisheries Productivity and its Contribution to Overall Agricultural Production in the      LowerMekongRiver Basin. A draft report submitted to the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food.

Please contact Mac Kirby Mac.Kirby@csiro.au for details