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Facing the Facts: Assessing the Vulnerability of Africa's Water Resources to Environmental Change

dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme, Pan African START Secretariat
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T20:01:52Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T20:01:52Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/7990
dc.descriptionAfrica's high dependence on natural resources makes its people vulnerable to environmental change. Acknowledging this, UNEP and START initiated a study in Feb. 2003 - (Vulnerability of Water Resources to Environmental Change in Afica). In the publication 4 regional groups of researchers address the vulnerability issue in Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Africa by means of selected river/lake/groundwater,basins according to natural (physuigraphic) anthropogenic (socio-economic) and management criteria. The basin was selected as a key unit for assessment because it balances resource protection and utilisation and it considers all components of the hydrological cycle. Finally, the assessments undertaken clearly show that water resounces in Africa are at risk, now and even more in the future.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Pan African START Secretariat
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental change
dc.subjectenvironmental assessment
dc.subjectwater conservation
dc.subjectwater endangering
dc.subjectwater protection
dc.subjectwater resource
dc.subjectwater resources management
dc.subjectwater resources conservation
dc.subjectwater quality
dc.subject.classificationEcosystem Management
dc.subject.classificationResource Efficiency
dc.titleFacing the Facts: Assessing the Vulnerability of Africa's Water Resources to Environmental Change
dc.typeReports, Books and Booklets
wd.identifier.old-id10765
wd.identifier.uneplive1
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000040


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