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Christopher A. Scott

Christopher A. Scott

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
11136
World Ranking
4444
National Ranking
1655

Overview

Christopher A. Scott is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in water science and technology. Their work also covers related subfields including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, ocean engineering, and political science and international relations.

The scientist has contributed notably to topics such as Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, water resources management and optimization, energy and environment impacts, transboundary water resource management, water governance and infrastructure, climate variability and models, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia: Prospects for transboundary energy and water security, 2020, Environmental Science & Policy
  • Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border: 75 years of tradition and innovation in transboundary water management, 2020, Environmental Science & Policy
  • Determining the quasi monsoon front in the Indian Himalayas, 2021, Quaternary International
  • Do ecosystem insecurity and social vulnerability lead to failure of water security?, 2020, Environmental Development

The venues where this researcher frequently publishes include:

  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Environmental Development
  • Journal of Arid Environments

Among their frequent co-authors are Adriana A. Zúñiga-Terán, Andrew J. Deek, Padmendra Shrestha, Rolando Díaz, and Devin J. Clegg.

Best Publications

  • The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment

    Tamee R Albrecht;Arica Crootof;Christopher A Scott

  • Poverty Measurement and Analysis

    Luc Christiaensen;Christopher Scott;Quentin Wodon

  • Policy and institutional dimensions of the water–energy nexus

    Christopher A. Scott;Suzanne A. Pierce;Martin J. Pasqualetti;Alice L. Jones

  • Socio‐hydrology: Use‐inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene

    M. Sivapalan;M. Konar;V. Srinivasan;A. Chhatre

  • Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Confronting the Livelihood and Environmental Realities

    Christopher A. Scott;Naser I Faruqui;L. Raschid-Sally

  • Wastewater irrigation and health: assessing and mitigating risk in low-income countries

    Christopher A. Scott;Pay Drechsel;Liqa Raschid-Sally;Akissa Bahri

  • Modeling water resources management at the basin level: review and future directions

    D.C. McKinney;Xueliang Cai;Mark W. Rosegrant;Claudia Ringler

  • Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: Improving groundwater conservation and power sector viability

    Tushaar" "Shah;Christopher A Scott;Avinash Kishore;Abhishek Sharma

  • The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Complex Global Challenges

    Christopher A. Scott;Mathew Kurian;James L. Wescoat

  • Wastewater use in irrigated agriculture: management challenges in developing countries.

    C. A. Scott;N. I. Faruqui;L. Raschid-Sally

  • Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico

    Christopher A. Scott;Tushaar Shah

  • Irrigation efficiency and water-policy implications for river basin resilience

    C. A. Scott;S. Vicuña;I. Blanco-Gutiérrez;F. Meza

  • Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

    Mark Zeitoun;Bruce Lankford;Tobias Krueger;Tim Forsyth

  • Drinking Wastewater Public Trust in Potable Reuse

    Kerri Jean Ormerod;Christopher A. Scott

  • Irrigated area mapping in heterogeneous landscapes with MODIS time series, ground truth and census data, Krishna Basin, India

    Trent W. Biggs;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Murali K. Gumma;Christopher A. Scott

  • Spatial variation in water supply and demand across river basins of India

    Upali A. Amarasinghe;Bharat R. Sharma;Noel Aloysius;Christopher Scott

  • Mapping root zone soil moisture using remotely sensed optical imagery

    Christopher A. Scott;Wim G.M. Bastiaanssen;Mobin ud Din Ahmad

  • Water security: A review of place-based research

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Lily House-Peters;Robert G. Varady;Tamee Albrecht

  • The water‐energy‐climate nexus: Resources and policy outlook for aquifers in Mexico

    Christopher A. Scott

  • Water Security and Adaptive Management in the Arid Americas

    Christopher A. Scott;Francisco J. Meza;Robert G. Varady;Holm Tiessen

  • Urban wastewater reuse for crop production in the water-short Guanajuato river basin, Mexico.

    Christopher A. Scott;J.A. Zarazua;G. Levine

  • Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region

    Margaret Wilder;Christopher A. Scott;Nicolás Pineda Pablos;Robert G. Varady

Frequent Co-Authors

Quentin Wodon
Quentin Wodon World Bank
Pay Drechsel
Pay Drechsel International Water Management Institute
Trent W. Biggs
Trent W. Biggs San Diego State University
Tushaar Shah
Tushaar Shah International Water Management Institute
Hugh Turral
Hugh Turral International Water Management Institute
Philippus Wester
Philippus Wester International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Manzoor Qadir
Manzoor Qadir McMaster University
Duncan Mara
Duncan Mara University of Leeds
Prasad S. Thenkabail
Prasad S. Thenkabail United States Geological Survey

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