Overview
- Highly interdisciplinary approach
- Offers strategies for a sustainable water management
- Case studies from two different catchments in Africa
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Africa is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In particular shortage of fresh water is expected to be the dominant water problem for West and Northwest Africa of the 21th century. In order to solve present and projected future problems concerning fresh water supply, a highly interdisciplinary approach is used in the book. Strategies are offered for a sustainable and future-oriented water management. Based on different scenarios, a range of management options is suggested with the aid of Information Systems and Spatial Decision Support Systems for two river catchments in Northwest and West Africa: the wadi Drâa in south-eastern Morocco and the Ouémé basin in Benin. The selected catchments are representative in the sense: "what can be learnt from these catchments for other similar catchments?
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals and process understanding
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Future projections and decision support
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impacts of Global Change on the Hydrological Cycle in West and Northwest Africa
Editors: Peter Speth, Michael Christoph, Bernd Diekkrüger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12957-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-12956-8Due: 11 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50209-9Published: 29 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-12957-5Published: 12 August 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 675
Topics: Hydrogeology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Medicine/Public Health, general, Demography, Agriculture, Climate Change