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Assessment of Transboundary Freshwater Vulnerability in Africa to Climate Change

dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.authorWater Research Commission
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T20:00:18Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T20:00:18Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/7835
dc.descriptionManaging the freshwater impacts of climate change in Africa is as much a political and development challenge as a technical climate change challenge. Even without climate change, many of Africa’s water resources are facing overuse, pollution, and degradation. Poor land-use practices are contributed to this process. Large numbers of people living in poverty in rural and informal urban areas are already vulnerable to water-related risks, whether floods, droughts, poor water quality, or increasing water scarcity. The status of water resources in Africa has been changing for many decades, whether through decreasing water quality, lowered groundwater, more or less rainfall, and changed timing of rainfall. Change is not new. Climate change, however, will profoundly accelerate the rate of change, affecting the ability of people and societies to respond timeously. The rate of change is compounded by uncertainty of the impacts of climate change. While there are a number of models that attempt to predict the impacts of climate change, many of these are at a very coarse scale and do not predict localised impacts, which may differ from the generalised picture. At the same time, different models predict different climate change trends in the same areas, some, for example, predicting an increase in rainfall, while others predict a decrease in rainfall. Managing for high rates of change in a context of uncertainty is thus what is demanded of African governments.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUNEP
dc.publisherWater Research Commission
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectfreshwater conservation
dc.subjectfreshwater degradation
dc.subjectfreshwater ecosystem
dc.subjectfreshwater monitoring
dc.subjectfresh water pollution
dc.subjectfreshwater resource
dc.subjectwater analysis
dc.subjectwater conservation
dc.subjectwater consumption
dc.subjectwater demand
dc.subjectwater management
dc.subjectwater monitoring
dc.subjectwater protection
dc.subjectwater quality
dc.subjectwater resource
dc.subjectwater resources management
dc.subjectwater utilisation
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectclimate change adaptation
dc.subjectclimate change mitigation
dc.subjectenvironmental assessment
dc.subject.classificationClimate Change
dc.subject.classificationResource Efficency
dc.subject.classificationEcosystem Management
dc.titleAssessment of Transboundary Freshwater Vulnerability in Africa to Climate Change
dc.typeReports, Books and Bookletsen_US
wd.identifier.old-id10907
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 14 - Life Below Water
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000048


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