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Water for Climate Healing

Water for Climate Healing - The New Climate Paradigm

Outline by Zuzka Mulkerin, zamulkerin@me.com

Water for Climate Healing - The New Climate Paradigm builds upon the foundations laid in an earlier publication, Water for Climate Recovery - The New Water Paradigm, published in 2007. The prior book garnered significant support worldwide and was adapted into several languages, including English, Farsi, French, Italian, Slovak, Korean, Arabic, and Polish.

This project has been dedicated to conveying scientific knowledge to a broader audience, appealing to land managers, farmers, ranchers, forestry professionals, land development planners, local councils, and educators, who have come to see this model as a source of hope and empowerment in addressing climate-related challenges.

The new publication takes the next steps in a dialogue about understanding water's role in restoring climate balance, emphasizing its impact on mitigating extreme events like droughts and floods.

Earth is a unique blue planet that supports life. Humankind has seen breathtaking images of our pale blue dot captured by astronauts from space. Yet, despite Earth's vast water resources, many nations face growing water shortages. How can they experience water scarcity on a planet mostly covered in water?

It's time to step back and discuss how ecosystems move water on land through plants and biodiversity, transcending national borders. Throughout history, civilizations have prospered in areas with abundant water but have declined in times of drought. Yet, people have made the same mistakes in disrupting ecosystems, affecting their regions and also other communities downstream and downwind. All local economies depend on water, and so does global trade. Droughts, floods, crop failures, heat domes, wildfires, and also insurance policy cancellations are all connected to water issues.

How can we find a solution to this dilemma?

The loss of green cover undermines the vital roles of plants and wetlands in our ecosystems, because they carry water. Precipitation recycling, or small water cycle, depends on soil moisture, evaporation and water transpiration carried out by plants.  Without the small water cycles on land, life as we know it cannot exist. Freshwater is no longer an indefinitely renewable resource.

It is time to see that vegetation and biodiversity are crucial for sustaining our planet's health and its climate.

This book offers a clear guide to quickly restoring the lost balance. It includes a practical action plan with innovative strategies to reduce droughts and floods and their impacts while acknowledging the link between water, plants, and climate. Ultimately, it portrays water and ecosystems as essential for stabilizing climate and ensuring living ecosystems for future generations. To keep water on land is like keeping money in the bank; both are vital for future growth and sustainability. Neutralizing carbon dioxide emissions is not enough. Thinking globally must start with acting locally. Climate mitigation needs to involve actively restoring degraded land and preventing further land degradation.

 

 

Authors:

A diverse group of authors are collaborating on a book, including theoretical physicists, climate experts, water managers, plant botanists, sociologists, and educators. Their work draws from experiences in the Sahara and African wadis, boreal forests of Russia, Central European mountain valleys, plains and ancient ponds, Belarus wetlands, restoration practices in Australia and India, and urban infrastructure and climate in Germany, Spain, Korea, and the Americas.

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Michal Kravčík

Anastassia Makarieva

Jan Pokorný

Martin Kováč

Andrei Nefiodov

Peter Andrews

Ariel Saleh

Duane Norris

Richard Widows

Peter Stevens

Moyoong Han

Holden Zhang

Valerie Valette

Dmitry Grummo TBD

Zuzka Mulkerin

Rajendra Singh

Indira Khurana

Marcela D’Souza

Vijay Solanky

Maude Barlow 

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UPDATED TABLE OF CONTENTS (Jan 2025)

Part A – From a new water paradigm to a new climate paradigm: how to heal the climate

  1. A new climate paradigm needs to be centered around the water cycle. Why?
  1. Understanding the water cycle as as a vital nexus between human socio-economic tools and complex benefits it provides
  1. Think globally, act locally. Restoring small water cycles can rehydrate the land and heal our climate
  1. Rehydrating the lands by restoring the water cycle
  1. The role of plants and water in the  distribution of solar energy in the landscapes and atmosphere
  1. Biotic pump principle - flow and exchange of  air moisture between continents and oceans
  1. Evolving Climate Paradigms: Embracing Change for Our Future from the old  to a New Climate Paradigm
  1. Rethinking Climate Politics in the Vernacular

Part B

  1. Empowering initiatives, resources and institutional support and tools for land restoration, renewal of small water cycles and fostering climate healing.

Part C – Reports from around the world: Discovering and validating the new water paradigm

  1. Key milestones 2007-2025
  1. Regional Case Studies - examples of good practice.
    1. Greening Sahara with twenty Nile Rivers escaping the Mediterranean Sea
    2. Germany. Urban infrastructure and anthropogenic climate change is older than 100 years
    3. South Korea, Rain cities -innovative solutions inspired by Korean philosophy
    4. Algeria and Morocco. Ancient wisdom to face challenging times
    5. Australia. Solar power of plants in natural sequence farming.  
    6. India, Chambal region, Rajasthan. Rejuvenating landscapes, lives and livelihoods through decentralised community -led rainwater conservation for climate resilience.
    7. Spain. Desertification and regular rainstorm dissapearence. (Millan Millan)
    8. France. How to scale up nature-based solutions
    9. Belarus. Restoration of peatlands
    10. Slovakia.

Part D – The way forward and documents for your support

  1. Closing summary
  1. Attachments

 

January 21, 2025

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