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Declan Conway is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields. These include Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, and Pollution.

Key topics of investigation in Conway's work span areas such as Water resources management and optimization, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Climate Change adaptation and migration, Energy and Environment Impacts, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, climate change effects on agriculture, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research outputs include:

  • Climate Risk Management
  • Earth s Future
  • One Earth
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Conway cover a range of topics related to climate variability, hydrology, and adaptation strategies:

  • Lake Malawi's threshold behaviour: A stakeholder-informed model to simulate sensitivity to climate change, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Assessing River Basin Development Given Water-Energy-Food-Environment Interdependencies, 2020, Earth s Future
  • Re-balancing climate services to inform climate-resilient planning - A conceptual framework and illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Climate Risk Management
  • Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa, 2021, One Earth
  • What role for multi-stakeholder partnerships in adaptation to climate change? Experiences from private sector adaptation in Kenya, 2021, Climate Risk Management

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Christian Siderius, Japhet J. Kashaigili, Ajay Bhave, and Suraje Dessai.

Best Publications

  • Adaptation to climate change in the developing world

    W. Neil Adger;Saleemul Huq;Declan Conway;Mike Hulme

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Statistical downscaling of general circulation model output: A comparison of methods

    R. L. Wilby;T. M. L. Wigley;D. Conway;P. D. Jones

  • Adaptation to climate change in Africa: Challenges and opportunities identified from Ethiopia

    Declan Conway;E. Lisa F. Schipper

  • Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures

    Delphine Deryng;Declan Conway;Navin Ramankutty;Jeff Price

  • The Climate and Hydrology of the Upper Blue Nile River

    Declan Conway

  • Tracing the water-energy-food nexus: description, theory and practice

    Hayley Leck;Declan Conway;Michael Bradshaw;Judith A. Rees

  • Climate and southern Africa's water-energy-food nexus

    Declan Conway;Emma Archer van Garderen;Emma Archer van Garderen;Delphine Deryng;Stephen Dorling

  • Greenhouse-gas emissions from energy use in the water sector

    Sabrina G. S. A. Rothausen;Declan Conway

  • From headwater tributaries to international river: Observing and adapting to climate variability and change in the Nile basin

    Declan Conway

  • A note on the temporal and spatial variability of rainfall in the drought-prone Amhara region of Ethiopia

    Woldeamlak Bewket;Declan Conway

  • African Climate Change: Taking the Shorter Route

    Richard Washington;Mike Harrison;Declan Conway;Emily Black

  • The impact of land use change on soil water holding capacity and river flow modelling in the Nakambe River, Burkina-Faso

    Gil Mahe;Jean-Emmanuel Paturel;Eric Servat;Declan Conway

  • Characterizing half-a-degree difference: a review of methods for identifying regional climate responses to global warming targets

    Rachel James;Richard Washington;Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Joeri Rogelj

  • Rainfall and Water Resources Variability in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Twentieth Century

    Declan Conway;Aurelie Persechino;Sandra Ardoin-Bardin;Hamisai Hamandawana

  • Regional disparities in the beneficial effects of rising CO2 concentrations on crop water productivity

    Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Christian Folberth;Christian Folberth;Christoph Müller

  • A water balance model of the Upper Blue Nile in Ethiopia

    D. Conway

  • China?s water?energy nexus: greenhouse-gas emissions from groundwater use for agriculture

    Jinxia Wang;Sabrina G S A Rothausen;Declan Conway;Declan Conway;Lijuan Zhang

  • Recent fluctuations in precipitation and runoff over the Nile sub-basins and their impact on main Nile discharge

    D. Conway;M. Hulme

  • The Impacts of Climate Variability and Future Climate Change in the Nile Basin on Water Resources in Egypt

    Declan Conway

  • The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions

    Declan Conway;Robert J. Nicholls;Sally Brown;Sally Brown;Mark G.L. Tebboth

  • Climate and Southern Africa's Water-Energy-Food Nexus

    D. Conway;T. Osborn;S. Dorling;C. Ringler

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Suraje Dessai
Suraje Dessai University of Leeds
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
David A. Stainforth
David A. Stainforth London School of Economics and Political Science
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Willem A. Landman
Willem A. Landman University of Pretoria
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong University of Pittsburgh
Timothy J. Osborn
Timothy J. Osborn University of East Anglia
Ian P. Holman
Ian P. Holman Cranfield University
Gil Mahé
Gil Mahé University of Montpellier

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