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Modes of Uncertainty offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose uncertainty cannot be reduced to risk-and thus it is vital to distinguish between the two. Drawing the lines between them, they argue that the study of uncertainty should not focus solely on the appearance of new risks and dangers-which no doubt abound-but also on how uncertainty itself should be defined, and what the implications might be for policy and government. Organizing contributions from various anthropological subfields-including economics, business, security, humanitarianism, health, and environment-Limor Samimian-Darash and Paul Rabinow offer new tools with which to consider uncertainty, its management, and the differing modes of subjectivity appropriate to it. Taking up policies and experiences as objects of research and analysis, the essays here seek a rigorous inquiry into a sound conceptualization of uncertainty in order to better confront contemporary problems. Ultimately, they open the way for a participatory anthropology that asks crucial questions about our contemporary state.

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Three of the eleven papers focused on groundwater recharge and its impacts on the groundwater regime, in which recharge was caused by riverbed leakage from river ecological restoration (artificial water replenishment). The issues of the hydrogeological parameters involved (such as the influence radius) were also reconsidered. Six papers focused on the impact of river ecological replenishment and other human activities on river and watershed ecology, and on groundwater quality and use function. The issues of ecological security at the watershed scale and deterioration of groundwater quality were of particular concern. Two papers focused on water resources carrying capacity and water resources reallocation at the regional scale, in the context of the fact that ecological water demand has been a significant topic of concern. The use of unconventional water resources such as brackish water has been emphasized in the research in this issue.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- influence radius --- Dupuit --- Thiem --- groundwater flow system --- sustainable development --- hydrogeochemistry --- ionic ratios --- factor analysis --- inverse modeling --- Yangtze River --- water resources carrying capacity --- uncertainty analysis --- fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model --- weight sensitivity analysis --- Yongding River --- groundwater numerical simulation --- artificial ecological water supplement --- groundwater recharge resources amount evaluation --- alga control --- typical biological chain --- Ecopath model --- ecological restoration --- Lianshi Lake --- Songnen Plain --- groundwater --- fluorine --- distribution --- formation --- human health risk --- groundwater quality --- groundwater hydrochemistry --- drinking suitability --- irrigation suitability --- health risk assessment --- watershed ecological security assessment --- DPSIR model framework --- environmental management --- water allocation --- brackish water --- general algebraic modeling system --- water diversion project --- numerical simulation --- MODFLOW --- n/a

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Coastal transitional ecosystems include a wide range of morphological features—i.e., lagoons, wetlands, estuaries, deltas, and so on. According to the Ramsar Convention, “they are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems” and are continually “degraded and converted to other uses”. To protect and restore these highly valuable ecosystems, knowledge of their processes and the assessment of their ecological conditions under anthropogenic pressures is of fundamental importance. The present book contains eight original research papers and a review that provide useful tools to understand the structure and function of transitional waters worldwide. The results allow us to assess the impact of anthropogenic activities and inform stakeholders on the actions that can be taken to manage them. The papers in this book provide different ecological approaches to investigate some main impacts: - benthic and nekton communities were studied to assess the impact of eutrophication and salinity changes; - biological processes in carbon dioxide fluxes were assessed in the framework of climate change; - nekton communities were discussed in relation to habitat morphological degradation; - the role of invasive alien species was considered.

Research & information: general --- SWRO desalination --- brine discharge --- osmotic stress --- coastal monitoring --- impacted coastal systems --- biological communities --- transitional waters --- community matrix --- qualitative model --- species interactions --- freshwater flow --- low salinity zone --- simulation --- ecological assessment --- adaptive management --- biological processes --- air–sea CO2 exchange flux --- net ecosystem production --- potential CO2 emissions --- trophic status --- Changjiang River estuary plume --- nekton --- restoration --- salinity --- predictive models --- biodiversity --- spatial variation --- sediments --- confinement --- saprobity --- organic enrichment --- coastal lagoons --- Mediterranean sea --- Macrophyte Quality Index (MaQI), transitional waters --- uncertainty analysis --- confidence interval --- Kernel standard error --- macroinvertebrates --- eutrophication --- organic pollution --- invasive alien species --- aquatic angiosperms --- environmental restoration --- ecological status --- Venice Lagoon --- coastal lagoon --- morphological alterations --- habitat conservation --- killifishes --- gobies --- Mediterranean Sea --- CO2 flux --- desalinization --- benthic fauna

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Coastal transitional ecosystems include a wide range of morphological features—i.e., lagoons, wetlands, estuaries, deltas, and so on. According to the Ramsar Convention, “they are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems” and are continually “degraded and converted to other uses”. To protect and restore these highly valuable ecosystems, knowledge of their processes and the assessment of their ecological conditions under anthropogenic pressures is of fundamental importance. The present book contains eight original research papers and a review that provide useful tools to understand the structure and function of transitional waters worldwide. The results allow us to assess the impact of anthropogenic activities and inform stakeholders on the actions that can be taken to manage them. The papers in this book provide different ecological approaches to investigate some main impacts: - benthic and nekton communities were studied to assess the impact of eutrophication and salinity changes; - biological processes in carbon dioxide fluxes were assessed in the framework of climate change; - nekton communities were discussed in relation to habitat morphological degradation; - the role of invasive alien species was considered.

SWRO desalination --- brine discharge --- osmotic stress --- coastal monitoring --- impacted coastal systems --- biological communities --- transitional waters --- community matrix --- qualitative model --- species interactions --- freshwater flow --- low salinity zone --- simulation --- ecological assessment --- adaptive management --- biological processes --- air–sea CO2 exchange flux --- net ecosystem production --- potential CO2 emissions --- trophic status --- Changjiang River estuary plume --- nekton --- restoration --- salinity --- predictive models --- biodiversity --- spatial variation --- sediments --- confinement --- saprobity --- organic enrichment --- coastal lagoons --- Mediterranean sea --- Macrophyte Quality Index (MaQI), transitional waters --- uncertainty analysis --- confidence interval --- Kernel standard error --- macroinvertebrates --- eutrophication --- organic pollution --- invasive alien species --- aquatic angiosperms --- environmental restoration --- ecological status --- Venice Lagoon --- coastal lagoon --- morphological alterations --- habitat conservation --- killifishes --- gobies --- Mediterranean Sea --- CO2 flux --- desalinization --- benthic fauna

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To promote scientific understanding of surface processes in East Asia, we have published details of the CMADS dataset in the journal, Water, and expect that users around the world will learn about CMADS datasets while promoting the development of hydrometeorological disciplines in East Asia. We hope and firmly believe that scientific development in East Asia and our understanding of this typical region will be further advanced.

sensitivity analysis --- non-point source pollution models --- reservoirs --- operation rule --- East Asia --- climate variability --- Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (TP) --- potential evapotranspiration --- precipitation --- capacity distribution --- GLUE --- soil temperature --- land use change --- JBR --- CFSR --- Jinsha River Basin --- impact --- runoff --- CMADS --- hydrological modeling --- aggregated reservoir --- reanalysis products --- Lijiang River --- spatio-temporal --- uncertainty --- total nitrogen --- Han River --- streamflow simulation --- meteorological --- CMADS-ST --- Erhai Lake Basin --- uncertainty analysis --- Biliuhe reservoir --- hydrological --- bayesian model averaging --- blue and green water flows --- SUFI-2 --- TMPA-3B42V7 --- statistical analysis --- satellite-derived rainfall --- streamflow --- satellite-based products --- Xiang River basin --- SWAT hydrological simulation --- PERSIANN-CDR --- hydrological processes --- SUFI2 --- CMADS dataset --- ParaSol --- hydrological modelling --- accumulation --- meteorological input uncertainty --- soil moisture content --- Yellow River --- SWAT --- Noah LSM-HMS --- sediment yield --- Yalong River --- TRMM --- Penman-Monteith --- IMERG --- PERSIANN --- hydrological elements --- freeze–thaw period --- land-use change --- parameter sensitivity --- China --- reservoir parameters --- soil moisture --- sloping black soil farmland --- hydrological model --- SWAT model --- hydrologic model