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Water Management, Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation: Early Impacts and Essential Responses
Summary
Water is the primary medium through which climate change will impact people, ecosystems, and economies. Water resources management should therefore be an early focus for adaptation to climate change. New instruments of adaptation currently being developed should support the approach of building generic water resource management capacities. This paper focuses on the ways in which climate change will affect water and how better water management can contribute both to mitigation of climate change and adaptation to those of its effects which are already irreversible.
About the publisher
The Global Water Partnership's (GWP) vision is for a water secure world. Its mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels. GWP was founded in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) to foster integrated water resource management (IWRM), and to ensure the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources by maximizing economic and social welfare without compromising the sustainability of vital environmental systems. www.gwpforum.org
