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Achieving Sustainable Irrigation Water Withdrawals: Global Impacts on Food Production and Land Use
27 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Richard Lammers, Alexander A Prusevich, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Danielle Grogan, Steve Frolking
Unsustainable water use challenges the capacity of water resources to ensure food security and continued growth of the economy. Adaptation policies targeting future water security can easily overlook its interaction with other sustainability metrics and unanticipated local responses to the...
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AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo
06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph MÃ_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao
Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level
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AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)
09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao
Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.
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Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability
08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos
Video presentation on "Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018
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An open source geospatial cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration and broader engagement
26 Oct 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song
Solving complex global problems demands that researchers from different disciplines work together, and their analytical tools, models and datasets interoperate. This is especially true in the context of sustainability. For instance, multiple goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
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Analyzing Water Scarcity in Global CGE Models
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Farzad Taheripour
Incorporating water into a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model operating at global scale can be extremely demanding due to the absence of standardized data, the sheer dimensions caused by intersecting river basins with countries, and difficulties to model demand for and supply of water....
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Assessing the Inter-regional Incidence of Climate Impacts on Agriculture
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.
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Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Climate Change across Latin America
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Monika Verma, Eduardo Magalhaes, Carlos Ludena, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Frances Moore
This is a poster presented at IMPACTS WORLD 2017, Germany.
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Attaining Food and Environmental Security in an Era of Globalization
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos
Attaining the twin goals of food and environmental security in the coming decades poses a significant sustainability challenge. This paper examines the food and environmental security implications of a range of policies affecting the global food economy and terrestrial ecosystems, first in the...
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Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries
31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Zekarias Hussein, Tom Hertel, Alla Golub
Mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change is one of the leading policy concerns of the 21st century. However, there continues to be heated debate about the nature, the content and, most importantly, the impact of the policy actions needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One...
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Climate Scenario Aggregator
09 Sep 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao
Climate Scenario Aggregator
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Connecting Communities Through HUBzero
03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Hongjun Choi, Lan Zhao
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Data-driven Collaboration Environments - Integrating HUBzero and iRODS
15 Sep 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam
As part of an effort to establish a community-based data sharing environment, we previously developed a HUBzero-based web component, iData. Using the open-source data management software, iRODS, iData provides hub users and tools with the ability to publish, manage, discover...
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Debunking the 'New Normal': Why World Food Prices are Expected to Resume their Long run Downward Trend
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel
Contrary to the opinions expressed by many commentators, the recent episode of higher prices for agricultural commodities is likely a transitory phenomenon. When compared to the last half-century, population growth is expected to be much slower in the coming decades, with nearly all of the growth...
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Developing Open Source Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks Software
26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): JIngbo Wu
This is an article published at Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research by Jingbo Wu describing his summer intern work as part of the GABBs project.
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DURI Summer Intern Project: Drought related data and tools: development and integration
08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Yuan Xia
A poster presented at the DURI student recognition luncheon, July 28, 2011. Yuan Xia, a junior from Computer Science, Purdue University, completed his summer internship with the Scientific Solutions group at RCAC. He helped integrated various maps and datasets into the DRINET. The live page can...
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Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models
07 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Frances C Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel
A large number of studies have been published examining the implications of climate change for agricultural productivity that, broadly speaking, can be divided into process-based modeling and statistical approaches. Despite a general perception that results from these methods differ...
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Effects of Drought on Water Quality in Streams
08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Rashad Riley, Indrajeet Chaubey, Lan Zhao
A research poster presented at the DDAD2011 symposium. It describes the preliminary results of a study on drought impact on water quality conducted over the Massie Creek sub-watershed in Ohio. The Messie Creek data is now available on DRINET and access is through the iDATA tool.Rashad Riley1,...
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Enabling Scientific Collaboration Using HUBzero Platform
03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao
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GLASS Conference 2020 Program
28 Jan 2020 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
Program description for "Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable agriculture and use of the world's land and water resources in the 21st Century" conference.