Climate change in contrasting river basins; adaptation strategies for water, food, and environment.S600 2004-000968 0-85199-835-6 Climate change in contrasting river basins; adaptation strategies for water, food, and environment. Title main entry. Ed. by Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts and Peter Droogers. CABI CABI Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (UK) CABI Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (UK) CABI Colorado Association of Business Intermediaries CABI California Birth Index Publishing, [c]2004 264 p. $110.00 Aerts (Institute for Environmental Studies, Free U., The Netherlands) and Droogers (FutureWater, The Netherlands) present the results of project that sought to develop a generic methodology for developing and assessing adaptation strategies for river basins impacted by climate change. The volume first explains the general framework of the methodology, which derives socioeconomic and environmental storylines for the basins, selects models at basin and field scales for simulating hydrology hydrology, study of water and its properties, including its distribution and movement in and through the land areas of the earth. The hydrologic cycle consists of the passage of water from the oceans into the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration (or and food production, assesses climate change and climate variability impacts on regional water management, and defines and evaluations adaptation strategies for water managers. The application of the methodology is then explained for seven case studies from the Mekong basin; South-east Asia South-East Asia n → le Sud-Est asiatique South-East Asia south n → Südostasien nt South-East Asia n → ; the Rhine basin, Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). ; the Sacramento basin, US; the Syr Darya Syr Darya or Syrdarya (both: sēr däryä`, –där`yə), ancient Jaxartes or Yaxartes, Pers. Sihun, river, c. basin, Central Asia; the Volta Basin, Ghana; the Walawe Basin, Sri Lanka; and the Zayandeh basin; Iran. Distributed in the US by Oxford U. Press. |
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