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Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources

Annual Report 1997

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  • © 1999

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  1. German Advisory Council on Global Change

    1. Secretariat at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

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  • Interdisciplinary source of reference for freshwater resources
  • Practice-orientated

Part of the book series: World in Transition (3377, volume 1997)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXV
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  2. Executive Summary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Summary of individual chapters

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 3-12

    3. Key recommendations for action

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 13-15

  3. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Introduction

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 17-21

  4. Five years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Introduction

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 25-25

    3. International policymaking in response to Global Change

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 26-35

    4. Local government implementation of Agenda 21

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 36-40

    5. Summary and prospects

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 41-42

  5. Focus: Water

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. The freshwater crisis: Basic elements

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 45-113

    3. Water in the Global Network of Interrelations — the causal web

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 114-120

    4. Global water problems and their causes

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 121-203

    5. Key issues

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 204-261

    6. Solutions to the global water crisis

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 262-331

  6. Recommendations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333
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    2. Key recommendations for research on freshwater resources

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 335-341

    3. Key recommendations for policy action on water resources

      • German Advisory Council on Global Change
      Pages 342-345
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atmosphere and vegetation. In what ways can key ural and cultural functions of water, primarily elements of the water balance and the hydrological through direct interference by agriculture and cycle be altered by climate change? To answer this through pollutant loads emanating from point and question, the Council presents an analysis in which non-point sources in settlements, the small business characteristics of the hydrological cycle under pre­ sector, agriculture and industry. Too little is known sent climatic conditions are compared to those in a about the behavior of substances that enter water simulated climate with CO doubling (equivalent to through human activities, about their decomposition 2 twice present-day levels). Here, the Council draws on and conversion, and about the impacts they have on calculations made with the ECHAM/OPYC coupled ecosystems and humans. The most important factors atmosphere-ocean model developed by the German influencing global water quality include acidification, Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) and the Max eutrophication, salinization, and pollution caused by Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI). Simulations organic and inorganic trace compounds (pesticides with the model show that more precipitation falls on and heavy metals, for example). Quality standards land masses in a warmer climate, especially at high such as those governing agricultural and industrial latitudes and in parts of the tropics and subtropics, uses have yet to be defined for many other types of while other regions have less rain. The latter include use.

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  • Secretariat at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

    German Advisory Council on Global Change

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