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Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa

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The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable areas, exploring potential management responses to such vulnerabilities.

The African countries are particularly exposed and vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, with important impacts on water resources and hydrological systems, water availability, water resource management and sea level variations. Already, under various anthropogenic pressures, the status of water resources in Africa has been changing over the past decades, with decreasing water quality, falling groundwater levels, and variability in rainfall, both in terms of timing and intensity. Climate change will further accelerate the rate of change, affecting the ability of people and societies to respond in a timely manner.

It is clear that there is no quick fix to the pressures imposed on water resources by climate change. Increasing the resilience of ecosystems and communities to extreme events such as flooding and drought, and integrating climate change risks and opportunities into development decision-making is indeed a key challenge, as much a technical climate-change one, as a political and developmental challenge.

The book, in this regard, intends to contribute to the debate around climate change in relation to water resources management in Africa, and in particular inform policy decisions and actions that will improve governments’ and communities’ ability to manage the challenges of climate change and variability in relation to the aquatic ecosystems that they depend on. The knowledge collected in this book will benefit policy makers, researchers, as well as other stakeholders.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
2108000185	EB0004117	551.6 Cli	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

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Series Title

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Call Number

551.6 Cli

Publisher

Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2021

Collation

xxx, 521p.:ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-61225-2

Classification

551.6

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Climate change

Specific Detail Info

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