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atmosphere and vegetation. In what ways can key ural and cultural functions of water, primarily elements of the water balance and the hydrological through direct interference by agriculture and cycle be altered by climate change? To answer this through pollutant loads emanating from point and question, the Council presents an analysis in which non-point sources in settlements, the small business characteristics of the hydrological cycle under pre sector, agriculture and industry. Too little is known sent climatic conditions are compared to those in a about the behavior of substances that enter water simulated climate with CO doubling (equivalent to through human activities, about their decomposition 2 twice present-day levels). Here, the Council draws on and conversion, and about the impacts they have on calculations made with the ECHAM/OPYC coupled ecosystems and humans. The most important factors atmosphere-ocean model developed by the German influencing global water quality include acidification, Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) and the Max eutrophication, salinization, and pollution caused by Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI). Simulations organic and inorganic trace compounds (pesticides with the model show that more precipitation falls on and heavy metals, for example). Quality standards land masses in a warmer climate, especially at high such as those governing agricultural and industrial latitudes and in parts of the tropics and subtropics, uses have yet to be defined for many other types of while other regions have less rain. The latter include use.
List of contents
A Executive Summary.- 1 Summary of individual chapters.- 2 Key recommendations for action.- B Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- C Five years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.- 1 Introduction.- 2 International policymaking in response to Global Change.- 3 Local government implementation of AGENDA 21.- 4 Summary and prospects.- D Focus: Water.- 1 The freshwater crisis: Basic elements.- 2 Water in the global network of interrelations - the causal web.- 3 Global water problems and their causes.- 4 Key issues.- 5 Solutions to the global water crisis.- E Recommendations.- 1 Key recommendations for research on freshwater resources.- 2 Key recommendations for policy action on water resources.- F References.- G Glossary.- H The German Advisory Council on Global Change.- I Index.
