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Adaptive Watershed Planning and Climate Change

Author : Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Watershed Planning and Climate Change written by Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few phenomena make the case for adaptive ecosystem management quite as well as climate change, the hydrological effects of which will upset settled expectations and require water institutions to adapt. The effects of climate change will be felt at multiple hydrological, geographic, and institutional scales that transcend specific water sources or political and legal jurisdictions. Moreover, the effects will be uncertain, complex, and frequently changing. Thus, water resources should be managed at watershed scales, and this management should use the adaptive management methods of flexibility, experimentation, and learning through iterative processes of managing environmental conditions and programs. However, the adaptive ecosystem management concept has had the unfortunate effect of de-emphasizing or even rejecting the role of planning in shaping the relationships between human actions and ecological conditions. Too little attention has been given to the role of planning in adaptation and ecosystem management. A concept of "adaptive planning" is not only consistent with adaptive ecosystem management, but could actually improve adaptive ecosystem management methods and the capacity of institutions to engage in adaptive ecosystem management effectively. Moreover, a growing number of watershed plans are exhibiting some characteristics of adaptive planning, particularly with respect to the effects of climate change on watersheds and water resources. This article explores the role of adaptive watershed planning in adapting to climate change. Adaptive watershed management requires the use of adaptive planning methods, not merely ad hoc, reactive experimentalism and incrementalism. Without some process of planning, Charles Lindblom's "science of muddling through" becomes "the science of drifting along." Adaptive planning gives some direction and focus to adaptive ecosystem management activities. Furthermore, adaptive watershed planning can improve not only adaptive watershed management methods, but also the content and effectiveness of watershed plans themselves. If watershed plans are to be useful, they must contemplate the uncertainties associated with climate change and its effects. In addition to describing the theory and features of adaptive planning and applying adaptive planning principles to watershed planning and management, this article also explores examples of watershed plans in the U.S. and Canada that have addressed climate change and analyzes a number of issues in adaptive watershed planning, including barriers to, and opportunities for, the increased and improved use of adaptive watershed planning to improve the capacity of watershed institutions to adapt to climate change.

Addressing Climate Change in Long-term Water Resources Planning and Management

Author : Levi D. Brekke
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437945015
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Book Synopsis Addressing Climate Change in Long-term Water Resources Planning and Management by : Levi D. Brekke

Download or read book Addressing Climate Change in Long-term Water Resources Planning and Management written by Levi D. Brekke and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the water management community¿s needs for climate change info. and tools to support long-term planning. Technical specialists and program managers have worked with their planners, water operators, and environmental compliance managers to identify the information and tools most relevant to their programs. They also have engaged and consulted with other Federal, State, and local agencies and stakeholder groups that have a role in water and water-related resource management to identify complementary priorities and individual perspectives. This report will help focus research and technology efforts to address info. and tools gaps relevant to the water management user community. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Adaptive and Integrated Water Management

Author : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540759417
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Adaptive and Integrated Water Management by : Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Download or read book Adaptive and Integrated Water Management written by Claudia Pahl-Wostl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. This book presents the very latest studies, methods and innovations for managing our water resources from the first International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The book addresses a wide interdisciplinary audience of scientists and professionals from academia, industry, and those involved in policy making.

Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate

Author : Kathleen A. Miller
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315356007
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate by : Kathleen A. Miller

Download or read book Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate written by Kathleen A. Miller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in the United States and considers strategies for managing water resources and related risks in the future. Written by highly-regarded experts in the industry, the book offers a wealth of experience, and explains the physical, socioeconomic, and institutional context for western water resource management. The authors discuss the complexities of water policy, describe the framework for water policy and planning, and identify many of the issues surrounding the subject. A provocative examination of policy issues surrounding western water resources, this book: Considers the implications of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change for the region’s water resources, and explains limitations on the predictability of local-scale changes Stresses linkages between climate patterns and weather events, and related hydrologic impacts Describes the environmental consequences of historical water system development and the challenges that climate change poses for protection of aquatic ecosystems Examines coordination of drought management by local, state and national government agencies Includes insights on planning for climate change adaptation from case studies across the western United States Discusses the challenges and opportunities in water/energy/land system management, and its prospects for developing climate change response strategies Presents evidence of changes in water scarcity and flooding potential in the region and identifies a set of adaptation strategies to support the long-term sustainability of irrigated agriculture and urban communities Draws upon Colorado’s experience in defining rights for surface and tributary groundwater use to explain potential conflicts and challenges in establishing fair and effective coordination of water rights for these resources Assesses the role of policy in driving flood losses Explores policy approaches for achieving equitable and environmentally responsible planning outcomes despite multiple sources of uncertainty Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate describes patterns of water availability, existing policy problems and the potential impacts of climate change in the western United States, and functions as a practical reference for the student or professional invested in water policy and management.

Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook considers both climate change adaptation (reduction of impacts) and mitigation [greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction]. Quantitative tools and techniques for addressing both are introduced and discussed in order to prepare comprehensive IRWMPs [integrated regional water management plans]. A guide to assess the vulnerability of a watershed or region to climate change impacts is presented in this handbook, and guidelines to prioritize vulnerabilities are introduced. This handbook relies on approaches that have been developed and applied to regional watershed planning processes. This handbook also presents case studies that provide illustrative examples in which the latest science and methods on climate change, including uncertainty and adaptive management approaches, have been applied outside academia. While the available suite of climate change tools and analytical techniques for incorporating climate change is continually advancing and improving, the underlying planning processes outlined in this handbook should continue to provide a solid basis for comprehensive watershed planning. Improved decisions about water resources management systems, whether adapting them to future climate change or mitigating climate change through reductions in GHG emissions, should result from application of the framework in this handbook. This handbook presents the range of decisions that need to be made and the factors that go into making those decisions at a local or regional level." -- Foreword.

Implementation Framework for Climate Change Adaptation Planning at a Watershed Scale

Author : Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772020113
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Implementation Framework for Climate Change Adaptation Planning at a Watershed Scale by : Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment

Download or read book Implementation Framework for Climate Change Adaptation Planning at a Watershed Scale written by Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Implementation Framework for Climate Change Adaptation Planning at a Watershed Scale (Framework) was developed by the Water Monitoring and Climate Change Project Team of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) Water Management Committee (WMC). The Framework provides watershed managers with a structured process to identify and reduce climate vulnerability and risk, and build resiliency within the watershed. The Framework presents a methodology through which a group of individuals can come together to assess and manage vulnerabilities and risks stemming from climate change at a watershed level. It is informed by existing international and domestic climate change adaptation frameworks that appear in published literature and a jurisdictional survey of climate change adaptation practitioners from across Canada. The Framework lists seven key steps, each with a series of tasks and outcomes. Inherent to the process is the intention of adaptive management. The method of managing adaptively is appropriate for this context in dealing with uncertainty in climate change as well as the importance of tracking, monitoring and evaluating adaptive measures designed to reduce climate risk.

Water, Climate Change, and Forests

Author : Michael J. Furniss
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437939848
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Book Synopsis Water, Climate Change, and Forests by : Michael J. Furniss

Download or read book Water, Climate Change, and Forests written by Michael J. Furniss and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Water from forested watersheds provides irreplaceable habitat for aquatic and riparian species and supports our homes, farms, industries, and energy production. Yet population pressures, land uses, and rapid climate change combine to seriously threaten these waters and the resilience of watersheds in most places. Forest land managers are expected to anticipate and respond to these threats and steward forested watersheds to ensure the sustained protection and provision of water and the services it provides. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) Background: Forests and Water; Climate Change: Hydrologic Responses and Ecosystem Services; (3) Moving Forward: Think; Collaborate; Act; (4) Closing; (5) Examples of Watershed Stewardship. Illus.

Being Prepared for Climate Change

Author : U. S. Environmental Agency
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511926348
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Being Prepared for Climate Change written by U. S. Environmental Agency and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change will bring additional challenges to places and ecosystems that are already under environmental stress. The expected climate changes will worsen existing problems as well as bring new problems. The process described in this Workbook leads you to take a broad look at how climate change will affect your environmental system and your organization. The creation of a planning-level risk-based vulnerability assessment will help you develop an action plan with effective solutions that your stakeholders and partners can help implement. Identifying risks associated with climate change and managing them to reduce their impacts is essential. This Workbook presents a guide to climate change adaptation planning based on EPA's experience with watershed management, the National Estuary Program and the Climate Ready Estuaries program. The Workbook will assist organizations that manage environmental resources to prepare a broad, risk-based adaptation plan. This Workbook helps meet the need for guidance on conducting climate change vulnerability assessments at a watershed scale, provides decision-support tools, helps people plan climate change adaptation strategies, and builds the capacity of local environmental managers. The Workbook helps EPA to fulfill the commitments that it has made to assist local and regional organizations to effectively plan for climate change impacts.

Adaptive and Inclusive Watershed Management

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive and Inclusive Watershed Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connections between these institutions and the provisions of various acts will be analyzed in the subsequent sections as they relate to water and gender, water and climate change, and climate change and gender to understand how they enable the inclusive and adaptive watershed management in the country. [...] The Water Sector Trust WSTF is a state corporation under the MWI, established under Section 113 of the Fund (WSTF) Water Act, 2016, with a mandate to provide conditional and unconditional grants to counties and to assist in financing the development and management of water and sanitation services in marginalized areas or any area that is considered by the Board of Trustees to be under-served. [...] The powers and functions of WASREB under the Act are to: (a) Determine and prescribe national standards for the provision of water services and asset development for water services providers (b) Evaluate and recommend water and sewerage tariffs to the county water services providers and approve the imposition of such tariffs in line with consumer protection standards (c) Set licence conditions and [...] The NGEC monitors, facilitates and advises on the integration of the principles of equality in all national and county policies, laws and regulations in all public and private institutions, including advising the State Department of Gender Affairs. [...] The water sector is subject to the same regulations and format requirements, as noted in the Annual Water Sector Review 2014/2015 -2015/16: during the period under review the ministry sent quarterly reports to the NGEC and Gender Directorate (Ministry of Water and Irrigation, 2016).

Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria

Author : Kenneth D. Frederick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401710511
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria by : Kenneth D. Frederick

Download or read book Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria written by Kenneth D. Frederick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems. This prospect presents planners, who are already struggling to meet the demands of growing populations and economies, with new challenges. This volume examines these challenges and the resulting conceptual issues for water planning and project evaluation practices. The book is the first attempt to consider whether and how water resources, planning principles and evaluation criteria should be altered in view of the potential impacts of anthropogenically induced climate change. The principles and procedures that are in use today along with new approaches to nonstructural flood plain management, watershed management, water markets, and wetland banking will serve as the basis for the policies and strategies that deal with climate variability and anticipated change. This collection of papers reviews what water management ideas work, which ones need to be changed, and how planners and managers should begin incorporating aspects of risk and uncertainty into management decisions to deal expertly with climate change.

Climate Change Adaptation and Development

Author : John Carstensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131552547X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation and Development written by John Carstensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is real and it is man-made. We have put so many greenhouse gas pollutants into the atmosphere that we will see significant and long-term change that we need to adapt and adjust to. It is important for development practitioners to understand these impacts and the challenge of how and when to adapt to climate change. There are plenty of grim presentations of what the extremes of the possible climate scenarios will throw at us over the next 100 years, but not all change will be disastrous; some change will be beneficial, but much of the change will happen at an unprecedented rate that will require the best possible analysis and understanding of how and when we should adapt to climate change. This is important for development practitioners as we invest in ensuring that poverty is reduced and eliminated and the well-being of everyone is improved. Many countries and communities around the world are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but developing economies may on one hand be less resilient to the impact, but could on the other hand be in a better position to make their development climate smart by making the most efficient use of their economic resources. The chapters in this book shine a light on the complexity and the multi-dimensional aspects of climate change adaptation. They gather some of the experiences of addressing climate change impacts in a development context. This book was previously published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook

Author : Jaroslav Mysiak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134039506
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook written by Jaroslav Mysiak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term implications of management actions make the problems even more difficult. This book explains the benefits, outcomes and lessons learned from adaptive water management (AWM). In essence AWM is a way of responding to uncertainty by designing policy measures which are provisional and incremental, subject to subsequent modification in response to environmental change and other variables. Included are illustrative case studies from seven river basins from across Europe, West Asia and Africa: the Elbe, Rhine, Guadiana, Tisza, Orange, Nile and Amudarya. These exemplify the key challenges of adaptive water management, especially when rivers cross national boundaries, creating additional problems of governance.

The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – A Multi-Model Experiment to Assess and Cope with Climate Change Impacts on the Châteauguay Watershed in Southern Quebec

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Author : Vescovi, Luc
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231041118
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – A Multi-Model Experiment to Assess and Cope with Climate Change Impacts on the Châteauguay Watershed in Southern Quebec by : Vescovi, Luc

Download or read book The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – A Multi-Model Experiment to Assess and Cope with Climate Change Impacts on the Châteauguay Watershed in Southern Quebec written by Vescovi, Luc and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security

Author : Jan Cassin
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128198982
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security written by Jan Cassin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security: An Action Agenda for the 21st Century presents an action agenda for natural infrastructure on topics of standards and principles, technical evaluation and design tools, capacity building and innovative finance. Chapters introduce the topic and concepts of natural infrastructure, or nature-based solutions (NBS) and water security, with important background on the urgency of the global water crisis and the role that NBS can, and should play, in addressing this crisis. Sections also present the community of practice’s collective thinking on a prioritized action agenda to guide more rapid progress in mainstreaming NBS. With contributions from global authors, including key individuals and organizations active in developing NBS solutions, users will also find important conclusions and recommendations, thus presenting a collaboratively developed, consensus roadmap to scaling NBS. Covers all issues of water security and natural infrastructures Presents a comprehensive state of synthesis, providing readers with a solid grounding in the field of natural infrastructures and water security Includes a fully workable and intuitive roadmap for action that is presented as a guide to the most important actions for practitioners, research questions for academics, and information on promising careers for students entering the field

Comprehensive Watershed Management and Planning

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Comprehensive Watershed Management and Planning by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Download or read book Comprehensive Watershed Management and Planning written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Climate Change in Sustainable Water Resources Management

Author : Omid Bozorg-Haddad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811918988
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change in Sustainable Water Resources Management by : Omid Bozorg-Haddad

Download or read book Climate Change in Sustainable Water Resources Management written by Omid Bozorg-Haddad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive approach to all aspects of water-related subjects affected by climate change that expand readers' attitudes toward future of the management strategies and improve management plans. It summarizes climate change scenarios, models, downscaling methods, and how to select the appropriate method. It also introduces practical steps in assessing climate change impacts on water issues through introducing hydrological models and climate change data applications in hydrologic analysis. The book caters to specialist readers who are interested in analyzing climate change effects on water resources, and related issues can gain a profound understanding of the practical concepts and step-by-step analysis, which is enriched with real case studies all around the world. Moreover, readers will be familiar with potential mitigation and adaptation measures in sustainable water engineering, considering the results of hydrologic modeling.

Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

Author : Noralene Uy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780526911
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Ecosystem-Based Adaptation written by Noralene Uy and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecosystems are often examined from a ecological perspective because of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book makes a case for ecosystem-based adaptation by arguing that ecosystems and its services are critical in the climate change and disaster risk reduction fields.