Olli Varis

Research interests

Publications

• Increased probability of hot and dry weather extremes during the growing season threatens global crop yields

  Scientific Reports · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29378-2

• Towards resilient flood risk management for Asian coastal cities: Lessons learned from Hong Kong and Singapore

  Journal of Cleaner Production · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.217

• Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

  Global Environmental Change · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.010

• Managing the water–energy–food nexus: Gains and losses from new water development in Amu Darya River Basin

  Journal of Hydrology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.071

• The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers

  Water · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.3390/w8050193

• Over the hills and further away from coast: global geospatial patterns of human and environment over the 20th–21st centuries

  Environmental Research Letters · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034010

• Diet change—a solution to reduce water use?

  Environmental Research Letters · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074016

• The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience‐based perspective on water for global sustainability

  Ecohydrology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1562

• From Food Insufficiency towards Trade Dependency: A Historical Analysis of Global Food Availability

  PLoS ONE · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082714

• Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.092

• How Close Do We Live to Water? A Global Analysis of Population Distance to Freshwater Bodies

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020578

• Basin-wide sediment trapping efficiency of emerging reservoirs along the Mekong

  Geomorphology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.03.018

• Is physical water scarcity a new phenomenon? Global assessment of water shortage over the last two millennia

  Environmental Research Letters · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034006

• The world by latitudes: A global analysis of human population, development level and environment across the north–south axis over the past half century

  Applied Geography · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.10.009

• Sediment-related impacts due to upstream reservoir trapping, the Lower Mekong River

  Geomorphology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.03.024

• Climate and Water: From Climate Models to Water Resources Management and Vice Versa

  Climatic Change · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1023/b:clim.0000044622.42657.d4

• China's 8 challenges to water resources management in the first quarter of the 21st Century

  Geomorphology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-555x(01)00107-6

Current projects

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