Water Management and Climate Change - Dealing With Uncertainties

Informationen zum Autor Cecilia Tortajada is the President of the Third World Centre for Water Management! Mexico.Asit K. Biswas is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in SingaporeAvinash Tyagi is Secretary General! International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)! India. Zusammenfassung This book addresses challenges and uncertainties related to water management and climate change. It also discusses decision making in the water sector under changing climate and related uncertainties, and societal water security under fluctuating climate. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Adapting to climate change: towards societal water security in dry-climate countries 3. Australian water policy in a climate change context: some reflections 4. Characterizing the water extremes of the new century in the US South-west: a comprehensive assessment from state-of-the-art climate model projections 5. Impacts of climate change on the hydrological cycle in Mexico 6. Climate change projections of streamflow in the Iberian peninsula 7. Downscaled climate change projections over Spain: application to water resources 8. The application of hydrological planning as a climate change adaptation tool in the Ebro basin 9. Measures against climate change and its impacts on water resources in Greece 10. Water and disasters: a review and analysis of policy aspects 11. Managing drought risk in water supply systems in Europe: a review

Product details

• Authors: Cecilia (National University of Singapo Tortajada
• Assisted by: Asit Biswas (Editor), Biswas Asit (Editor), Cecilia Tortajada (Editor), Tortajada Cecilia (Editor), Avinash Tyagi (Editor), Tyagi Avinash (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138693036
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69303-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; NATURE / Ecology, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Water industries, Energy industries and utilities