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- Title
CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD.
- Authors
Miller, Kathleen A.
- Abstract
The article looks at the challenges posed by impacts of climate change on the world's water resources. Concerns about climate change arise from the fact that human activities are releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The climate system will react to such an increase in heat-trapping capacity by setting in motion processes that will adjust the earth's energy balance to a new equilibrium. These processes include the acceleration of the hydrologic cycle. Hydrologic changes are, thus, an integral part of global climate change. It is noted that institutions governing water use will play an important role in determining the human and environmental impacts of increasingly scarce water.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; WATER supply; GREENHOUSE gases; BIOENERGETICS; HYDROLOGIC cycle; ECOLOGICAL impact
- Publication
Journal of International Affairs, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 2, p35
- ISSN
0022-197X
- Publication type
Article