Towards Adaptation of Water Resource Systems to Climatic and Socio-Economic Change

Sustainability of water resources management in the Indus Basin under changing climatic and socio economic conditions

Pakistan is highly dependent on water resources originating in the mountain sources of the upper Indus for irrigated agriculture which is the mainstay of its economy. Hence any change in available resources through climate change or socio-economic factors could have a serious impact on food security and the environment. In terms of both ratio of withdrawals to runoff and per-capita water availa...

Towards capturing Change in Socio-Technical Systems Requirements

Within organisations, business processes are increasingly supported by socio-technical systems — combinations of people and technologies working synergistically. In the commercial sector at least, business processes are increasingly complex and volatile due to the rapid pace of change in the marketplace, and this has an impact on their supporting systems. In this sector, organisations feel the ...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Adaptation of Leaf Water Relations to Climatic and Habitat Water Availability

Successful management of forest systems requires a deeper understanding of the role of ecophysiological traits in enabling adaptation to high temperature and water deficit under current and anticipated changes in climate. A key attribute of leaf water relations is the water potential at zero turgor (πtlp), because it defines the operating water potentials over which plants actively control grow...

Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems