Climate Change and Water Governance (Record no. 99718)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789400757967
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-5796-7
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Classification number QC902.8-903.2
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Subject category code RNPG
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Subject category code SCI026000
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Subject category code SCI042000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 577.27
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hill, Margot.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Climate Change and Water Governance
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Margot Hill.
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Extent XXIII, 345 p. 19 illus., 6 illus. in color.
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Series statement Advances in Global Change Research,
International Standard Serial Number 1574-0919 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 54
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Contents -- Part I: Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene -- 1. Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene -- 2. Water Governance -- 3. Adaptive Capacity -- 4. The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity -- 5. Applying a Multi-Pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity -- Part II: The Cases of Chile & Switzerland -- 6. Introducing the Case Study Areas: Hydro-climatic & Governance Background -- 7. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Switzerland -- 8. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Chile -- 9. Converging Threats: Driving pressures for Adaptive Capacity -- Part III: Applying the Assessment -- 10. Governance in the Face of Uncertainty and Change -- 11. Bridges and Barriers to Adaptive Capacity -- 12. Operationalising Adaptive Capacity -- 13. Assessing Adaptive Capacity -- Part IV: Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity -- 14. Balancing Structural Conflicts across Scales to develop and mobilise Adaptive Capacity -- 15. Coping with and Communicating Uncertainty -- 16. Addressing the Challenge of Institutional Infrastructure in a Technically focused World.
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Summary, etc Climate Change and Water Governance presents the results of several years’ research focusing on adaptive capacity and water governance in two widely-separated regions of the globe, namely the Swiss Alps and the Chilean Andes. The two regions share many similarities in hydrology and water resources: shifting precipitation patterns, highly variable winter snow pack and receding glaciers, resulting in changing seasonality and amounts of runoff that will subtly modify water availability and water use. As climate change is likely to amplify trends in surface run-off, the author investigates whether adaptive capacity in these two regions is sufficiently robust to respond to a situation which has never been experienced to date. The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed. Using these insights, the author introduces, tests and enhances an indicator framework for the assessment of adaptive capacity. The aim is to help readers better understand the adaptive processes that allow the regimes governing water resources to respond to new shocks and changes in the hydrological system, in order to build more resilient water governance systems that can bend, but not break, in the face of new and unexpected challenges.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental sciences.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climatic changes.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human Geography.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environment.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climate Change.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human Geography.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political Science, general.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400757950
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Uniform title Advances in Global Change Research,
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Volume number/sequential designation 54
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5796-7
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