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Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa - Perspectives and Solutions Towards an Imminent Water Crisis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa - Perspectives and Solutions Towards an Imminent Water Crisis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities
to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable
areas, exploring potential management responses to such
vulnerabilities. The African countries are particularly exposed and
vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, with
important impacts on water resources and hydrological systems,
water availability, water resource management and sea level
variations. Already, under various anthropogenic pressures, the
status of water resources in Africa has been changing over the past
decades, with decreasing water quality, falling groundwater levels,
and variability in rainfall, both in terms of timing and intensity.
Climate change will further accelerate the rate of change,
affecting the ability of people and societies to respond in a
timely manner. It is clear that there is no quick fix to the
pressures imposed on water resources by climate change. Increasing
the resilience of ecosystems and communities to extreme events such
as flooding and drought, and integrating climate change risks and
opportunities into development decision-making is indeed a key
challenge, as much a technical climate-change one, as a political
and developmental challenge. The book, in this regard, intends to
contribute to the debate around climate change in relation to water
resources management in Africa, and in particular inform policy
decisions and actions that will improve governments' and
communities' ability to manage the challenges of climate change and
variability in relation to the aquatic ecosystems that they depend
on. The knowledge collected in this book will benefit policy
makers, researchers, as well as other stakeholders.
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