Securing a resilient future for Pakistan: How hydro-economic modeling guides evidence-based adaptation

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dc.creatorDavies, Stephen
dc.creatorAli, Muhammad Tahir
dc.creatorAkram, Iqra
dc.creatorHafeez, Mohsin
dc.creatorRingler, Claudia
dc.date2026-04-28
dc.date2026-04-28T20:18:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:25:20Z
dc.descriptionPakistan’s water crisis has steadily evolved into a binding constraint on economic growth, food security, and climate resilience. Behind this crisis lie the tightly coupled challenges of rapid groundwater depletion, rising energy costs for pumping, overreliance on water-intensive crops such as rice and sugarcane, and increasing climate variability. This calls for solutions that recognize the water–energy–food–environment (WEFE) nexus. For years, policy discussions acknowledged these interlinkages; yet decision-making largely relied on sector-by-sector evidence, making it difficult to anticipate economywide consequences of water-related reforms. What was missing was a nationally relevant hydro-economic framework capable of quantifying trade-offs, synergies, and distributional effects of alternative policy pathways. Policymakers and researchers have long understood this need but have taken limited steps to develop such a framework until recently – with the development and launch of the Hydro-Economic Decision Support System.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/182694
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/155324
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCGIAR System Organization
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/169159
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137073
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDavies, Stephen; Ali, Muhammad Tahir; Akram, Iqra; Hafeez, Mohsin; and Ringler, Claudia. 2026. Securing a resilient future for Pakistan: How hydro-economic modeling guides evidence-based adaptation. WEFE Nexus Policy Impact Story. CGIAR System Organization. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182694
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectmodelling
dc.subjectwater
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectimpact
dc.titleSecuring a resilient future for Pakistan: How hydro-economic modeling guides evidence-based adaptation
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