Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources

1. Front Matter

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2. Resilience Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Water Quality and Health

   • Mustafa M. Aral

   Pages 1-8

3. Implications of Climate Change on Water Security in the Mediterranean Region

   • Ken W. F. Howard

   Pages 9-16

4. Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services in the United States – Issues of National and Global Security

   • Michael J. Friedel

   Pages 17-24

5. Climate Change Mitigation with Renewable Energy: Geothermal

   • Alper Baba

   Pages 25-33

6. Climate Change and Water Resources – Challenge of Our Civilisation

   • Zbyněk Hrkal

   Pages 35-41

7. Impacts of Decreasing Recharge Rates on Sustainable Groundwater Management

   • Hasan Yazicigil, Koray K. Yilmaz, Burcu Unsal Erdemli, Ozlem Yagbasan

   Pages 43-50

8. A Model for Integrated Water Resources Management in Water-Scarce Regions: Minimization of the Impacts of Groundwater Exploitation on Society and the Environment

   • Nava Haruvy, Sarit Shalhevet

   Pages 51-61

9. Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater Resources Using Groundwater Flow Models

   • Alper Elçi

   Pages 63-75

10. Management of Karst Aquifers Under Climate Change: Implications for Sustainable Use

    • Mehmet Ekmekci, Levent Tezcan

    Pages 77-85

11. Impact of Climate Change on Hydropower Generation and Irrigation: A Case Study from Greece

    • Jacques Ganoulis, Charalampos Skoulikaris

    Pages 87-95

12. Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Floods Frequency Through a Continuous Hydrological Modelling

    • Luca Brocca, Stefania Camici, Angelica Tarpanelli, Florisa Melone, Tommaso Moramarco

    Pages 97-104

13. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Turkish Water Resources: A Review

    • Koray K. Yilmaz, Hasan Yazicigil

    Pages 105-114

14. Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Resources: Review of a Case Study in Azerbaijan

    • Rauf G. Israfilov, Yusif H. Israfilov

    Pages 115-121

15. The Global Climate Change Impact on Water Resources of Armenia

    • Anahit Adanalyan, Suren Gevorgyan

    Pages 123-129

16. Regional Climate Changes in Kyrgyzstan: Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors

    • Kazimir A. Karimov, Razia D. Gainutdinova

    Pages 131-137

17. Manufactured Nanoparticles: A New Threat to the Security of Some Groundwater Supplies?

    • John H. Tellam

    Pages 139-146

18. Regulation of Cyanobacteria in Large Open Water Reservoirs

    • Rashid A. Khaydarov, Renat R. Khaydarov, Olga Gapurova

    Pages 147-156

19. Risk Characterization of Contaminated Water Pathways and Toxicity Determination

    • Namik M. Rashydov

    Pages 157-165

20. Improved Methods for Conducting the Cadastre of Meliorative Condition in Irrigated Areas Subject to Climate Change

    • Rakhimdjan K. Ikramov, A. M. Samiev, V. Muhtarova

    Pages 167-174

National and global security can be assessed in many ways but one underlying factor for all humanity is access to reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing industry. In many parts of the world, population growth and an escalating demand for water already threaten the sustainable management of available water supplies. Global warming, climate change and rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside. Pro-active resource management decisions are required, but such efforts would be futile unless reliable predictions can be made about the impact of the changing global conditions on the water cycle and the quality and availability of critical water reserves. Addressing this wide spectrum of issues, a team of expert authors discusses here the impacts of climate change on the global water resources, the long-term resource management goals at global and local scales, the data requirements and the scientific and technical advances necessary to mitigate the associated impacts.

• Climate Change
• Ground Water
• Water Management
• Water Resources
• Water Security
• climate change impacts
• hydrogeology

• Engineering Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, Turkey

  Alper Baba, Gökmen Tayfur

• Engineering Faculty, Department of Environmental Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Buca, Turkey

  Orhan Gündüz

• University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada

  Ken W.F. Howard

• Denver Federal Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, USA

  Michael J. Friedel

• Geophysics Centre of Evora, Department of Geosciences, University of Evora, Evora, Portugal

  Antonio Chambel

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