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1 De Silva, C. S. 2006. Impacts of climate change on water resources in Sri Lanka. In Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC). Sustainable development of water resources, water supply and environmental sanitation: 32nd WEDC International Conference, Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13th - 17th November 2006. Preprints. Leicestershire, UK: Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) pp.502-508.
Water resources ; Climate change ; Rain ; Temperature ; Environmental temperature ; Evapotranspiration ; Soil moisture / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WAT Record No: H041046)
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2 Singer, S. F.; Avery, D. T. 2008. Unstoppable global warming: every 1,500 years. Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 278p.
Climate change ; History ; Air temperature ; Environmental temperature ; Drought ; Greenhouse effect ; Models ; Urbanization ; Land use ; Weather ; Health hazards ; Protocols ; Energy resources / Europe / Middle East / Asia / USA / Africa / China
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.73874 G000 SIN Record No: H041257)
3 World Bank. 2010. World development report 2010: development and climate change. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 417p.
Climate change ; Decision making ; Carbon cycle ; Environmental temperature ; Marine environment ; Coral reefs ; Natural disasters ; Risk management ; Migration ; Biodiversity ; Hydrological cycle ; Water availability ; Water policy ; Water rights ; Water management ; Agricultural production ; Aquaculture ; Farming ; Natural resources management ; Energy ; Social aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042530)
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/WDR10-Full-Text.pdf
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042530.pdf
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Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change—the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010. It explores how public policy can change to better help people cope with new or worsened risks, how land and water management must adapt to better protect a threatened natural environment while feeding an expanding and more prosperous population, and how energy systems will need to be transformed.The report is an urgent call for action, both for developing countries who are striving to ensure policies are adapted to the realities and dangers of a hotter planet, and for high-income countries who need to undertake ambitious mitigation while supporting developing countries efforts. A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now to tackle the substantial inertia in the climate, in infrastructure, and in behaviors and institutions; if we act together to reconcile needed growth with prudent and affordable development choices; and if we act differently by investing in the needed energy revolution and taking the steps required to adapt to a rapidly changing planet.In the crowded field of climate change reports, WDR 2010 uniquely: emphasizes development takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape and how to seize them proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.
4 Hoanh, Chu Thai; Jirayoot, K.; Lacombe, Guillaume; Srinetr, V. 2010. Impacts of climate change and development on Mekong flow regimes. First assessment - 2009. Vientiane, Laos: Mekong River Commission. 83p. (MRC Technical Paper 29)
River basin development ; Water resources development ; Climate change ; Decision support systems ; Simulation models ; Hydrology ; Data processing ; Precipitation ; Runoff ; Environmental temperature ; Flow ; Flooding ; Salt water intrusion ; Electricity generation ; Development projects ; Irrigation programs / South East Asia / China / Myanmar / Laos / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam / Mekong River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043262)
http://www.mrcmekong.org/assets/Publications/technical/tech-No29-impact-of-climate-change.pdf
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This paper aims to summarise in detail the results of the analysis under the CSIRO-MRC project of "Reducing vulnerability of water resources, people and the environment in the Mekong Basin to climate change impacts" by providing the basic findings on the impacts of climate change and development on the Mekong River flow regimes. The paper aims: To present the framework of climate change analysis and its application to the BDP Scenarios; To present the results from the application of the DSF models of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in order to analyse the impacts of climate change and selected BDP Scenarios on flow regimes; To determine further studies necessary to identify suitable adaptation strategies for dealing with such impacts. The framework of the climate change scenario analysis is introduced in Chapter 2. A brief introduction to the DSF is presented in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 presents the processing of the PRECIS data for the provision of climate inputs for the analysis. The results of model runs for the Baseline Scenario with observed and PRECIS data are presented in Chapter 5. Changes in the flow regime due to both development and climate change are discussed in Chapter 6. Finally, conclusions and recommendations for further studies are presented in Chapter 7.
5 Mainuddin, M.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Jirayoot, K.; Halls, A. S.; Kirby, M.; Lacombe, Guillaume; Srinetr, V. 2010. Adaptation options to reduce the vulnerability of Mekong water resources, food security and the environment to impacts of development and climate change. Report to AusAID. Collingwood, VIC, Australia: CSIRO. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship; Vientiane, Laos: Mekong River Commission (MRC); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 151p. (Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Report Series)
River basin development ; Decision support systems ; Models ; Climate change ; Analysis ; Adaptation ; Water power ; Electrical energy ; Development projects ; Dams ; Irrigation programs ; Precipitation ; Flooding ; Salt water intrusion ; Fisheries ; Ecology ; Crop production ; Rice ; Maize ; Productivity ; Irrigated farming ; Rainfed farming ; Supplemental irrigation ; Environmental temperature ; Food security ; Impact assessment / South East Asia / Laos / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam / Mekong River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043268)
https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=csiro:EP103009&dsid=DS8
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043268.pdf
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The report aims to provide critical input to the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) regional Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative (CCAI) which was launched shortly after the formulation of this project. The CCAI is a collaborative regional initiative designed to address the shared climate change adaptation challenges of LMB countries in response to the potential effects of climate change on the socio-economic characteristics and natural resources of the LMB region. MRC has identified need for a more informed understanding of the potential impacts from climate change. To contribute to this aim, the purpose of this report is: 1. To present the framework of climate change analysis and its application to the Basin Development Plan (BDP) Scenarios; 2. To present the results from the application of the Decision Support Framework (DSF) models of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in order to analyse the impacts of climate change and selected BDP Scenarios on flow regimes; 3. To present climate change impacts on floods and fisheries in the LMB; 4. To present the impact of climate change on the productivity of major crops grown in the basin and their consequences on the overall food security of the basin considering future population growth. 5. To present the results of applying simple adaptation strategies related to agriculture and food security; and 6. To determine further studies necessary to identify suitable adaptation strategies for dealing with such impacts.
6 Sharma, Bharat; de Condappa, D.; Bharati, Luna. 2011. Opportunities for harnessing the increased contribution of glacier and snowmelt flows in the Ganges Basin. Keynote speech presented at the International Conference on Cooperation on the Ganges: Barriers, Myths, and Opportunities, Institute of Water Policy, LKY School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 13-14 November 2010. 16p.
River basins ; Climate change ; Glaciers ; Snowmelt ; Environmental temperature ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Mountains / South Asia / India / Nepal / Bangladesh / Ganges River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044143)
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The topography of Ganges basin (GB) is much contrasted with upstream steep mountainous region of the Himalayas and downstream large fertile plains in eastern India and Bangladesh. The Himalays are partly covered by snow and glaciers that seasonally release water to the river network of GB and provide cushion against the annual fluctuations. The contribution from the glaciers to the streamflows is supposed to be significant although spatilly distributed quantification is unavailable. Moreover, there is uncertainity on the impact of climate change on glaciers and the resultant streamflows. We set up an application of the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP)model which contained an experimental glaciers module that accounts for snow and glaciers processes in the GB. The model also examined the possible impacts of an increase in temperature of +1, +2 or +3 degree Celsius over 20 years of the simulation period (1982-2002). The average annual stream flows in the GB that comes from melting of snow and ice in glaciated areas is significant (60-75%) in the Upper Ganga and in the Nepalese sub-basins. The share, however, reduces significantly further downstream, falling to about 19% at Farakka as flows from glaciated areas are diluted by streamflows generated by rainfall/ runoff processes. Climate change-induced rise in temperature logically increases the quantity of snow and ice that melts in glaciated areas , causing an augmentation of streamflows. However, this impact decreases from upstream ( +8% to +26% at Tehri Dam in Uttaranchal in India) to downstream (+1% to +4% at Farakka in West Bengal). Such increases in streamflows may create flood events more frequently or of higher magnitude in the Upper Ganga or in the mountainous sub-basins. In terms of water use, most of the extra water from glaciated areas do not flow when water is most required i.e. during the lean flow winter and early summer season. Potential strategy to exploit this additional water may include construction of new dams/ reservoir storages that could be used locally or within the transboundary agreements or to capture this extra water just at the end of the dry season (April-June) when flows from glaciated areas become noticeable. Enhancing the development of groundwater in the basin (from the present low level of ~ 30 per cent) through managed aquifer recharge and other suitable options shall be an equally viable option. The riparian states within India and India-Nepal- Bangladesh may harness this opportunity to alleviate physical water scarcity and transboundary water conflicts.
7 Joshi, P. K.; Priyanka, N.; Amarnath, Giriraj. 2011. Geospatial tools to assess forest ecosystems under climate change trajectories. In Joshi, P. K.; Singh, T. P. (Eds.). Geoinformatics for climate change studies. New Delhi, India: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) pp.129-176.
Remote sensing ; GIS ; Climate change ; Forests ; Ecosystems ; Phenology ; Ecology ; Greenhouse gases ; Models ; Vegetation ; Mountains ; Wildfires ; Invasive species ; Global warming ; Environmental temperature ; Land use ; Land cover / Nepal / Eastern Himalayas
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 621.3678 G000 JOS Record No: H044291)
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8 Joshi, P. K.; Singh, T. P. 2011. Geoinformatics for climate change studies. New Delhi, India: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). 470p.
Remote sensing ; GIS ; Climate change ; Environmental temperature ; Global warming ; Models ; Mountains ; Glaciers ; Forests ; Ecosystems ; Phenology ; Mapping ; Sea level ; Water management ; Evapotranspiration ; Land degradation ; Satellite imagery ; Natural disasters ; Landslides ; Flooding ; Wildfires ; Risk reduction ; Research ; Greenhouse gases ; Vegetation ; Invasive species ; River basins ; Health hazards ; Waterborne diseases ; Diarrhoea ; Malaria ; Land degradation ; Data analysis / South Africa / Nigeria / Bangladesh / Morocco / Germany / Thailand / Malaysia / Australia / Eastern Cape Province / Mooi River Basin / Weida River Basin / Murray Darling River Basin / Thuringia / Chang Mai / Kanchanaburi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 621.3678 G000 JOS Record No: H044290)
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9 Im, E.-S.; Pal, J. S.; Eltahir, E. A. B. 2017. Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia. Science Advances, 3(8):1-7. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603322]
Climate change ; Environmental temperature ; Heat ; Waves ; Forecasting ; Farmland ; Population density ; Public health ; Experimental design ; Models ; Spatial distribution / South Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048294)
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/8/e1603322.full.pdf
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048294.pdf
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The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C can be considered an upper limit on human survivability. On the basis of an ensemble of high-resolution climate change simulations, we project that extremes of wet-bulb temperature in South Asia are likely to approach and, in a few locations, exceed this critical threshold by the late 21st century under the business-as-usual scenario of future greenhouse gas emissions. The most intense hazard from extreme future heat waves is concentrated around densely populated agricultural regions of the Ganges and Indus river basins. Climate change, without mitigation, presents a serious and unique risk in South Asia, a region inhabited by about one-fifth of the global human population, due to an unprecedented combination of severe natural hazard and acute vulnerability.
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