Prof Declan Conway
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Prof of Water Resources & Climate Change |
D dot Conway at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2337 |
Arts 1.74 |
Biography
My research concentrates on the interactions between climate and society with extensive experience in developing countries. I have a broad-base of expertise that encompasses detailed knowledge of climate models, scenario generation, climate impacts assessment and research and applied consultancies on policy and adaptation issues. I have long term research interests in Ethiopia and the Nile Basin (in 1997 I taught in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia).
I am a founding member of the UEA Water Security Research Centre and am closely involved in the Tyndall Centre Research Programme on International Development and Climate Change.
During 2009–2011 I held a part-time secondment to the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as a Senior Research Fellow on climate change. From January to July 2011 I hold a Visiting Fellow’s position with the Australian National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
I have ongoing research interests on climate change in China: on Adaptation (ACCC programme) and water use and energy/emissions (ADMIT research project).
I am co-editor of Global Environmental Change and hold editorial positions with Hydrological Sciences Journal, Climate and Development and Food Security: the science, sociology and economics of food production and access to food.
I teach mainly in Environment and Natural Resources with a focus on water resources, climate change and methods. I currently teach on two Masters level programmes:
MSc Water Security and International Development – new for 2011
MSc Climate Change and International Development – the first established Masters to fully integrate climate change and development
I am also happy to consider interesting PhD proposals, with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity.
Key recent publications include;
Rothausen, S.G.S.A. and Conway, D. (2011) Greenhouse-gas emissions from energy use in the water sector. Nature Climate Change 1, 210–219 doi:10.1038/nclimate1147View ePrint
Africa:
Conway, D. (2011) Adapting climate research for development in Africa. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2011
doi: 10.1002/wcc.115
Conway, D. and Schipper, ELF. (2011) Adaptation to climate change in Africa: Challenges and opportunities identified from Ethiopia. Global Environmental Change 21: 227–237 doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.013
Oates, N., Conway, D. and Calow, R. (2011) The 'mainstreaming' approach to climate change adaptation: insights from Ethiopia's water sector. ODI Background Notes, April 2011
Goulden, M., Conway, D. and Persechino, A. (2009) Challenges of adaptation to climate change in transboundary river basins in Africa. Hydrological Sciences Journal 54: 805-828
Conway, D. Persechino, A., Ardoin-Bardin, S., Hamandawana, H., Dieulin, C. and Mahe, G. (2009) Rainfall and water resources variability in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century. Journal of Hydrometeorology 10: 41-59 doi:10.1175/2008JHM1004.1.
China:
Li Yue, Conway, D. et al. (2011) The impacts of climate variability and climate change on agriculture in China: A review. Climate Research
doi:10.3354/cr01038
Policy briefs on China and Climate Change: Project Overview; Climate Scenarios; Impacts on Food Production; Livelihoods and Vulnerability; Adaptation Framework for Ningxia
Xiong, W., Conway, D., Jiang, J., Li, Y., Lin, E., Xu, Y. and Hui, J. (2009) Future cereal production in China: The interaction of climate change, water availability and socio-economic scenarios. Global Environmental Change 19: 34-44 doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.10.006
CV and Experience
Click here to download Declan's CV.Key Research Interests
Climate variability, climate change and water resources management. Climate change and development. Nile basin, Ethiopia, East Africa, China and India.
Research Groups: Climate Change and Development; UEA Water Security Research Centre
I am currently working on the following research projects;
2010 – 2011: ADMIT – Harmonising Adaptation and Mitigation in water and energy use in China. UK Defra funded.
2010 – 2012: CLICO Climate Change, Hydro Conflicts and Human security. EU Framework VI, consortium partner.
2009 – 2012: Advisory support to major research project Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) which is designed to upscale the research and capacity building activities conducted through the earlier UK-China collaborations on climate change.
2008 – 2012: Scientific adviser to UK Department of Energy and Climate Change project Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in India (2008-11).
2009 – 2010: Physical and Social Insights to Adaptation Limits in Vulnerable Places: International River Basins in Africa. Funded by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Publications:
Rothausen, S.G.S.A. and Conway, D. (2011) Greenhouse-gas emissions from energy use in the water sector. Nature Climate Change 1, 210–219 doi:10.1038/nclimate1147
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Climate change, impacts and adaptation in China
Xiong, W., Holman, I., Jiang, J., Li, Y., Lin, E., Conway, D., Xu, Y. and Hui, J. (2009) Climate change, water availability and future cereal production in China. Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Ecosystems, 135(1-2) pp 58-69
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Xiong, Wei, Conway, D., Erda Lin, Holman, I. (2009) Potential impacts of climate change and climate variability on China’s rice yield and production. Climate Research, 40(1): 23–35. doi: 10.3354/cr00802
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Xiong, W., Conway, D., Jiang, J., Li, Y., Lin, E., Xu, Y. and Hui, J. (2009) Future cereal production in China: The interaction of climate change, water availability and socio-economic scenarios. Global Environmental Change, 19(1), 34-44. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.10.006
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Xiong, W., Conway, D., Holman, I. and Lin, E. (2008) Evaluation of CERES-Wheat simulation in the main wheat producing areas of China. Agronomy Journal 100: 1720–1728. doi:10.2134/agronj2008.0081
Xiong, W., Holman, I., Conway, D., Lin, E.D., Li, Y.E. (2008) A crop model cross calibration for use in regional climate impacts studies: Rice yields in China. Ecological Modelling 2133-4, 365-380.
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Xiong, W., Conway, D., Jiang, J., Li, Y., Lin, E., Xu, Y., Hui, J. and Calsamiglia-Mendlewicz, S. (2008) Future cereal production in China: Modelling the interaction of climate change, water availability and socio-economic scenarios. The Impacts of Climate Change on Chinese Agriculture – Phase II Final Report, AEA Group, UK. 30 pp.
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Xiong, W., Conway, D., Xu, Y.L., Jinhe, J. Ju, H., Calsamiglia-Mendlewicz, S. and Lin, E.D. (2008) The Impacts of Climate Change on Chinese Agriculture - Phase II National Level Study. Final Report. AEA Group. 62 pp.
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Li Yue, Wu Yanjuan, Conway, D., Preston, F., Lin Erda, Zhang Jisheng, Wang Taoming, Jia Yi, Gao Qingzhu, Shifeng, Ju Hui (2008) Climate and Livelihoods in Rural Ningxia: Final Report. AEA Group. 26 pp.
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Ju Hui , Li Yue, Harvey A., Preston F., Conway D. and Calsamiglia-Mendlewicz, S. (2008) Adaptation Framework and Strategy Part 1: A Framework for Adaptation. AEA Group, UK. 8 pp.
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Ju Hui, Conway, D., Li Yue, Harvey, A., Lin Erda, Calsamiglia-Mendlewicz, S. (2008) Adaptation Framework and Strategy Part 2: Application of the Adaptation Framework: A Case Study of Ningxia, Northwest China. AEA Group, UK. 31 pp.
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Ju Hui, Conway D., Li Yue, Harvey A., Lin Erda and Calsamiglia-Mendlewicz S. (2008) Adaptation Framework and Strategy Part 3: An Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture in Ningxia, Northwest China. AEA Group, UK. 11 pp.
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Water resources and climate change – Africa and the Nile
Goulden, M., Conway, D. and Persechino, A. (2009) Challenges of adaptation to climate change in transboundary river basins in Africa. Hydrological Sciences Journal 54(5), 805-828.
Also Tyndall Working paper 127.
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Conway, D. Persechino, A., Ardoin-Bardin, S., Hamandawana, H., Dieulin, C. and Mahe, G. (2009) Rainfall and water resources variability in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century. Journal of Hydrometeorology 10(1), 41-59. doi:10.1175/2008JHM1004.1
Also: Tyndall Centre Working Paper 119.
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Conway, D. and Mahé, G. (2009) River flow modelling in two large river basins with non-stationary behaviour: the Paraná and the Niger. Hydrological Processes 23(22), 3186-3192. doi:10.1002/hyp.7393
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Hepworth, N. and Conway, D. (2006) Water resource management capacity in Tanzania: insights from responses to climate extremes. 32nd WEDC International Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Conway, D., (2005) From headwater tributaries to international river basin: adaptation to climate variability and change in the Nile river basin, Global Environmental Change, 15(2): 99-114.
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Mahé, G., J.E. Paturel, E. Servat, D. Conway, A. Dezetter (2004) ' Impact of land use change on soil water holding capacity and river modelling of the Nakambe River in Burkina-Faso', Journal of Hydrology, 300(1-4); 33-43
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Tate, E., J.V. Sutcliffe, D. Conway & F. Farquharsen (2004) 'Water balance of Lake Victoria: update to 2000 and climate change modelling to 2100', Hydrological Sciences Journal, 49(4): 563-574
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Conway, D., (2002) 'Extreme Rainfall Events and Lake Level Changes in East Africa: Recent Events and Historical Precedents' in E.O. Odada (ed.) The Second International Symposium on the Limnology, Climatology and Palaeoclimatology of the East African Lakes. Kluwer
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Bischoff, S.A., Garcia, N.O., Vargas, W.M., Jones, P.D. and Conway, D. (2000) Climatic variability and Uruguay River flows. Water International, 25(3), 446-456.
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Conway, D. (2000) The climate and hydrology of the Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia. Geographical Journal 166, 49-62.
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Conway, D. (1997) A water balance model of the Upper Blue Nile in Ethiopia. Hydrological Sciences Journal ,42, 265-286.
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Conway, D. and Hulme, M. (1996) The impacts of climate variability and future climate change in the Nile Basin on water resources in Egypt. Int. J. Water Resources Development 12(3), 277-296
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Conway, D., Krol, M., Alcamo, J. and Hulme, M. (1996) Future availability of water in Egypt: the interaction of global, regional and basin scale driving forces in the Nile Basin. Ambio 25, 336-342.
Conway, D. and Hulme, M. (1993) Recent fluctuations in precipitation and runoff over the Nile subbasins and their impacts on Main Nile discharge. Climatic Change 25(2), 127-151.
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Climate and international development
Tanner T.M., Hassan A., Islam K.M.N., Conway D., Mechler R., Ahmed A.U., and Alam M. (2007) 'ORCHID: Piloting Climate Risk Screening in DFID Bangladesh: Summary Research Report' , Institute of Development Studies.
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Conway, D., Schipper, L., Yesuf, M., Kassie, M., Persechino, A. and Kebede, B. (2007) Reducing Vulnerability in Ethiopia: Addressing the Implications of Climate Change: Integration of results from Phase I. University of East Anglia, Overseas Development Group. 38 pp.
Washington, R., Harrison, M., Conway, D., Black, E., Challinor, A., Grimes, D., Jones, R., Morse, A., Kay, G., and Todd, M. (2006) African Climate Change : Taking the Shorter Route. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1355-1366.
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Corbera, E., Conway, D., Goulden, M., and Vincent, K. (2006) Climate change in Africa: Linking science and policy for adaptation, Workshop report. The Royal Society of London, March 2006, Tyndall Center and IIED.
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Conway, D., E. Allison, R. Felstead & M. Goulden, (2005) Rainfall variability and change in East Africa: Implications for natural resources management and livelihoods, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 363 (1826): 49-54
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Adger, W.N., S. Huq, K. Brown, D. Conway & M. Hume (2003) Adaptation to climate change in the developing world. Progress in Development Studies 3 (3): 179-195
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Climate variability – Africa
Conway, D., C. E. Hanson, R. Doherty, and A Persechino (2007), GCM simulations of the Indian Ocean dipole influence on East African rainfall: Present and future, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03705, doi:10.1029/2006GL027597.
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Stager, J. C., Ruzmaikin, A., Conway, D., Verburg, P. and Mason, P. (2007) Sunspots, El Niño, and the levels of Lake Victoria, East Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D15106, doi:10.1029/2006JD008362
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Conway, D., Mould, C. and Wolde Amlak Bewket (2004) Over One Century of Rainfall and Temperature Observations at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. International Journal of Climatology 24(1), 77-91.
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Mistry, V. & D. Conway (2003) 'Climatological factors responsible for variations in levels of Lake Victoria' in International Journal of Climatology 23 (1): 67-89
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Conway, D. (2000) Some Aspects of Climate Variability in the North East Ethiopian Highlands - Wollo and Tigray. SINET - Ethiopian Journal of Science 23, 139-161.
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Hulme, M., Conway, D., Joyce, A. and Mulenga, H. (1996) A 1961-90 climatology for Africa south of the Equator and a comparison of potential evapotranspiration estimates. South African Journal of Science 92, 334-343.
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Conway, D., Brooks, N., Briffa, K. and Merrin, P.D. (1998) Historical climatology and dendroclimatology in the Blue Nile Basin, Northern Ethiopia. In: Water Resources Variability in Africa During the XXth Century (ed. By E. Servat, D. Hughes, J. M. Fritsch and M. Hulme) (Proc. Abidjan ‘98 November 1998), 243-251. IAHS Pub. No. 252.
Climate change scenarios, impacts and adaptation
Allison, E. H., A. Perry, M.-C. Badjeck, W. N. Adger, K. Brown, D. Conway, A. Halls, G. Pilling, J. D. Reynolds and N. K. Dulvy (2009) Vulnerability of national economies to the impact of climate change on fisheries. Fish and Fisheries. 10(2) doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2008.00310.x
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Wolf, J., Brown, K. and Conway, D. (2009) Ecological citizenship and climate change: perceptions and practice. Environmental Politics, 18(4), 503–521. DOI: 10.1080/09644010903007377
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Ekström, M., P. Jones, H. Fowler, G. Lenderink, A. Buishand & D. Conway (2007) Regional climate model data used within the SWURVE project 1: projected changes in seasonal patterns and estimation of PET. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11, 1069-1083.
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Wilby, R.L., Conway, D., and Jones, P.D. (2002) Prospects for downscaling seasonal precipitation variability using conditioned weather generator parameters. Hydrological Processes 16(6), 1215-1234.
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Osborn, T., Conway, D., Hulme, M., Gregory, J.M. and Jones, P.D. (1999) Air flow influences on local climate: observed and simulated mean relationships for the United Kingdom. Climate Research 13, 173-191.
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Conway, D. and Jones, P.D. (1998) The use of weather types and air flow indices for GCM downscaling. Journal of Hydrology 212-213, 348-361.
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Conway, D. (1998) Recent Climate Variability and Future Climate Change Scenarios for Great Britain. Progress in Physical Geography 22, 350-374.
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Wilby, R.L., Wigley, T.M.L., Conway, D., Jones, P.D., Hewitson, B.C., Main, J. and Wilks, D.S. (1998) Statistical downscaling of General Circulation Model output: A comparison of methods. Water Resources Research 34, 2995-3008.
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Jones, P.D. and Conway, D. (1997) Precipitation in the British Isles: an analysis of area-average data updated to 1995. International Journal of Climatology 17(4), 427-438.
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Hulme, M., Conway, D., Barrow, E. and Jiang, C. (1995) Construction of a 1961-1990 European climatology for climate change modelling and impact applications. International Journal of Climatology 15, 1333-1363.
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Teaching Interests
Research Supervision
I am currently supervising the following research students:
- Erik Chavez (co-supervision with Sir Gordon Conway, Grantham Institute); ‘Economic impacts of climate change and biofuels in China’
- Matthew England; ‘Climate change and water resources policy in India; Krishna basin’
- Dorice Agol; ‘Linking Culture and Science: Water Resources in Kenya’
- Xiaojun Fan; ‘Rural livelihood transformations in Guangxi, China’
- Denis Hellebrandt Da Silva; ‘Institutional Change and Adaptive Livelihoods of Fisherfolk in Southern Brazil’
- Nicholas Hepworth; ‘The Role of Regulatory Practice in Integrated Water Resource Management: Impacts, Implications and Insights for Progress via a Multiple Case Study of Sectoral Water Uses in Tanzania’
