Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Soil and Water Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zied Haj-Amor ◽  
Salem Bouri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Soil And Water

Climate Change Impacts on Water Management and Adaptation Strategies in The Netherlands: Stakeholder and Scientific Expert Judgements

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Veraart ◽  
E. C. van Ierland ◽  
S. E. Werners ◽  
A. Verhagen ◽  
R. S. de Groot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Adaptation Strategies

scholarly journals SWAT BASED ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT IN THENPENNAI SUB-BASIN OF SOUTH INDIA

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-5 ◽  
pp. 557-562
Author(s):  
K. Nivedita Priyadarshini ◽  
S. A. Rahaman ◽  
S. Nithesh Nirmal ◽  
R. Jegankumar ◽  
P. Masilamani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Soil And Water

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Climate change impacts on watershed ecosystems and hydrologic processes are complex. The key significant parameters responsible for balancing the watershed ecosystems are temperature and rainfall. Though these parameters are uncertain, they play a prime role in the projections of dimensional climate change studies. The impact of climate change is more dependent on temperature and precipitation which contributes at a larger magnitude for characterising global warming issues. This paper aims to forecast the variations of temperature and precipitation during the period of 2020&amp;ndash;2050 for the northern part of Thenpennar sub basin. This study is modelled using SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) &amp;ndash; a scale model developed to predict the impact of changes that occurs in land, soil and water over a period of time. This study is validated using the base period from 1980&amp;ndash;2000 which shows the distribution of rainfall and temperature among 38 watersheds. The results from this study show that there is a decrease in the rainfall for a maximum of about 20% in the month of December during the predicted period of 2020 and 2050. This study assesses the possible adverse impact of climate change on temperature and precipitation of Thenpennai sub-basin. This kind of predictions will help the government agencies, rulers and decision makers in policy making and implementing the adaptation strategies for the changing climatic conditions.</p>

Climate change impacts on water management in the Puget Sound region, Washington State, USA

2010 ◽  
Vol 102 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 261-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Vano ◽  
Nathalie Voisin ◽  
Lan Cuo ◽  
Alan F. Hamlet ◽  
Marketa McGuire Elsner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Puget Sound Region

scholarly journals Climate Change Impacts on Soil and Water Conservation

Eos ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (11) ◽  
pp. 136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgen D. Garbrecht ◽  
Jean L. Steiner ◽  
Craig A. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Soil And Water Conservation ◽  
Soil And Water

Water Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 387-400
Author(s):  
Rajan Janardhanan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
The World

The world faces an unprecedented crisis in water resources management, with profound implications for global food security, protection of human health, and maintenance of all ecosystems on Earth. Large uncertainties still plague quantitative assessments of climate change impacts and water resource management, but what is known for certain is that the climate is changing and that it will have an effect on water resources. Therefore, increased efforts will be needed to plan and manage water supplies in the future through increased monitoring and understanding of the interrelationships between population size, climate change, and water availability. The focus of water management is gradually shifting from developing new water sources to using existing water sources more effectively and efficiently. The world needs policy change in water management. Respect for water resources and their value is the starting point of deliberations. Governments have the essential water management function: to protect and allocate water resources to allow both individual and collective interests to benefit from water. Societies must also lead in understanding, provisioning for mitigating the impact of disasters, ranging from extreme droughts to unprecedented floods, caused by climate change and poor management of water and land. Public funds will likely remain the main source of water sectoral funding. It is up to governments to invest wisely to enhance the crucial role that water has for social and economic development in a country. Integrated water resource management strategy is accepted as a global model for achieving the objective of a sustainable water management system.

scholarly journals Assessing water resources adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1427-1443 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Hamlet
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Cool Season ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Northwest Region

Abstract. Climate change impacts in Pacific Northwest Region of North America (PNW) are projected to include increasing temperatures and changes in the seasonality of precipitation (increasing precipitation in winter, decreasing precipitation in summer). Changes in precipitation are also spatially varying, with the northwestern parts of the region generally experiencing greater increases in cool season precipitation than the southeastern parts. These changes in climate are projected to cause loss of snowpack and associated streamflow timing shifts which will increase cool season (October–March) flows and decrease warm season (April–September) flows and water availability. Hydrologic extremes such as the 100 yr flood and extreme low flows are also expected to change, although these impacts are not spatially homogeneous and vary with mid-winter temperatures and other factors. These changes have important implications for natural ecosystems affected by water, and for human systems. The PNW is endowed with extensive water resources infrastructure and well-established and well-funded management agencies responsible for ensuring that water resources objectives (such as water supply, water quality, flood control, hydropower production, environmental services, etc.) are met. Likewise, access to observed hydrological, meteorological, and climatic data and forecasts is in general exceptionally good in the United States and Canada, and is often supported by federally funded programs that ensure that these resources are freely available to water resources practitioners, policy makers, and the general public. Access to these extensive resources support the argument that at a technical level the PNW has high capacity to deal with the potential impacts of natural climate variability on water resources. To the extent that climate change will manifest itself as moderate changes in variability or extremes, we argue that existing water resources infrastructure and institutional arrangements provide a reasonably solid foundation for coping with climate change impacts, and that the mandates of existing water resources policy and water resources management institutions are at least consistent with the fundamental objectives of climate change adaptation. A deeper inquiry into the underlying nature of PNW water resources systems, however, reveals significant and persistent obstacles to climate change adaptation, which will need to be overcome if effective use of the region's extensive water resources management capacity can be brought to bear on this problem. Primary obstacles include assumptions of stationarity as the fundamental basis of water resources system design, entrenched use of historical records as the sole basis for planning, problems related to the relatively short time scale of planning, lack of familiarity with climate science and models, downscaling procedures, and hydrologic models, limited access to climate change scenarios and hydrologic products for specific water systems, and rigid water allocation and water resources operating rules that effectively block adaptive response. Institutional barriers include systematic loss of technical capacity in many water resources agencies following the dam building era, jurisdictional fragmentation affecting response to drought, disconnections between water policy and practice, and entrenched bureaucratic resistance to change in many water management agencies. These factors, combined with a federal agenda to block climate change policy in the US during the Bush administration have (with some exceptions) contributed to widespread institutional "gridlock" in the PNW over the last decade or so despite a growing awareness of climate change as a significant threat to water management. In the last several years, however, significant progress has been made in surmounting some of these obstacles, and the region's water resources agencies at all levels of governance are making progress in addressing the fundamental challenges inherent in adapting to climate change.

Regional climate change impacts: II. Impacts on water management works

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. MIMIKOU ◽  
P. S. HADJISAVVA ◽  
Y. S. KOUVOPOULOS ◽  
H. AFRATEOS
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Regional Climate Change

Climate change impacts on river basin and freshwater ecosystems: some observations on challenges and emerging solutions

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Ostfeld ◽  
Stefano Barchiesi ◽  
Matthijs Bonte ◽  
Carol R. Collier ◽  
Katharine Cross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Delaware River ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Okavango River

Despite uncertainty pertaining to methods, assumptions and input data of climate change models, most models point towards a trend of an increasing frequency of flooding and drought events. How these changes reflect water management decisions and what can be done to minimize climate change impacts remains unclear. This paper summarizes and extends the workshop outcomes on ‘Climate Change Impacts on Watershed Management: Challenges and Emerging Solutions’ held at the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, Montréal, 2010, hosted by the IWA Watershed and River Basin Management Specialist Group. The paper discusses climate change impacts on water management of freshwater ecosystems and river basins, and illustrates these with three case studies. It is demonstrated through the case studies that engagement of relevant stakeholders is needed early in the process of building environmental flows and climate change decision-making tools, to result in greater buy-in to decisions made, create new partnerships, and help build stronger water management institutions. New alliances are then created between water managers, policy makers, community members, and scientists. This has been highlighted by the demonstration of the Pangani integrated environmental flow assessment, through the Okavango River Basin case study, and in the more participatory governance approach proposed for the Delaware River Basin.

scholarly journals Integration of gender considerations into Tanzania's climate and water policies

Water Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Sima Kironde ◽  
Oludare Sunday Durodola ◽  
Claydon Mumba Kanyunge
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Gender Integration ◽  
Water Policies ◽  
Climate Policies

Abstract Integrating gender considerations into national policies such as climate and water policies is a critical step toward achieving gender equality, resilient systems, sustainable water access and management of climate change. In Tanzania, just like in many developing countries, women play a vital role in water management and could be more vulnerable to climate change impacts than their male counterparts. While there are few attempts in existing literature toward examining the integration of gender considerations into water and climate policies, analyzing policies' formulation process has not been given attention. Thus, this study analyzed the extent and effectiveness of gender integration in climate change and water sector policies in Tanzania. The study shows that there is a substantial acknowledgment of gender issues in the reviewed policy documents but there exist considerable gaps in terms of integrating gender issues in the documents and during formulation processes.

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