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How Do Irrigation and Drainage Play an Important Role in Climate Change Adaptation? †
Author(s) -
Watanabe Tsugihiro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
irrigation and drainage
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1531-0361
pISSN - 1531-0353
DOI - 10.1002/ird.1980
Subject(s) - climate change , drainage , irrigation , agriculture , geography , water resource management , drainage basin , environmental planning , environmental science , cartography , ecology , archaeology , biology
The 22nd International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage with the main theme 'Securing Water for Food and Rural Community under Climate Change' was held in September 2014 in Gwangju, Korea. Under this theme, Congress Question 58 'How do Irrigation and Drainage Play an Important Role in Climate Change Adaptation?' was raised. This paper summarizes the discussions and results of 48 papers and 27 posters accepted under this question. This overview confirms the role of irrigation and drainage management as intervention to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and consequent extreme climate events have to be factored into all decision‐making processes. It also highlights that particular attention should be paid to the uncertainty in climate change assessment and that the assessment is expected to be more dependable with the development of better analysis methods and a greater availability of reliable climate data and future scenarios. At this stage, it is very hard to do an integrated impact assessment, which covers the whole agricultural and hydrological process, including all scales and aspects such as on‐farm to basin, crop growth to farming system, production to environment, etc. Therefore, each sub‐process is to be evaluated and accumulation of its outcomes and cases promoted. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.