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Adapting to hydrologic impacts of climate change: an international development perspective
Author(s) -
Svendsen Mark,
Künkel Nana
Publication year - 2009
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.482
Subject(s) - climate change , vulnerability (computing) , developing country , adaptation (eye) , adaptive capacity , agriculture , natural resource economics , perspective (graphical) , environmental resource management , environmental planning , process (computing) , water supply , water resources , business , environmental science , geography , economics , economic growth , environmental engineering , computer science , ecology , artificial intelligence , physics , computer security , archaeology , optics , biology , operating system
The paper reviews important water‐related effects of climate change and assesses their impacts on developing countries and, in particular, on developing country agriculture. It assesses the relative importance of change‐driven water supply and water demand effects on agriculture and examines the concepts of vulnerability, adaptation, and adaptive capacity. It suggests some measures available to developing countries to begin the process of adaptation to the impacts of climate change and outlines a possible role for external development cooperation in that process. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.