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Climate Variability and Water Dependent Sectors: Impacts and Potential Adaptations - Hardcover

 
9781138807334: Climate Variability and Water Dependent Sectors: Impacts and Potential Adaptations
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ISBN 10: 1138807338 ISBN 13: 9781138807334
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Demand for water in agricultural, municipal, industrial, and environmental uses is growing. More frequent and severe extreme weather conditions now exacerbate water shortages in many locations and existing infrastructure to store and release water rarely has the capacity to both prevent floods during wet periods and meet demand during drought periods. Competition among sectors adds pressure not only on water infrastructure, but also on management policies and allocation institutions.

This book of contributed chapters assesses the performance of existing infrastructure, institutions and policies under different climate variability scenarios. It also provides suggestions for minimizing conflict over scarce water resources. More flexible water-allocation institutions and management policies, and better tools for decision-making under uncertainty will be required to maximize society’s net benefit from less reliable water resources. The chapters show how incentives for individuals to conserve water, and policies for helping vulnerable populations prepare for and recover from extreme events, will also need to be improved.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dannele E. Peck is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wyoming, USA.

Jeffrey M. Peterson

is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, USA.

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Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1138807338
ISBN 13 
9781138807334
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
132
Herausgeber
Peck Dannele E., Peterson Jeffrey M.
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