Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation
This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas (Unites States and Mexico), Au...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Water Resources Development and Management
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Murray-Darling Basin: climate change, infrastructure and water
- Climate change adaptation, water infrastructure development, and responsive governance in the Himalayas: The case study of Nepal’s Koshi River basin
- Building Pakistan´s resilience to natural disasters in the Indus River Basin
- Yellow River: Re-operation of Infrastructure system to increase Resilience to Climate Variability and Changes
- Seyhan Dam, Turkey
- Contributions of Aswan High Dam in Alleviating the Impacts of Climate Fluctuations and Change
- Greater security with less water: Sterkfontein Dam’s contribution to systemic resilience
- The Durance-Verdon river basin in France: the role of infrastructures and governance for adaptation to climate change
- Enhancing governance of climate resilience in the Arid Americas: A multi-country comparative assessment of the role of reservoirs in adaptive management
- Mitigation measures for high-risk dams, considering changes in their climate and basinin Mexico
- Sobradinho Reservoir