Climate, water and vulnerabilities : climatic trend and variability in South Asia and their potential implications for peri-urban water security
2013
Mondal, M. Shahjahan
PowerPoint presentation
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Meeting: June 18-20, 2013
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]South Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change because of burgeoning coastal and peri-urban populations, poor environmental management, high incidence of poverty and heavy dependency on subsistence agriculture. Cyclone, land slide, drought, flood, etc., are the major climatic and hydrologic hazards that often jeopardize human and economic development. Ensuring water security for maintaining basic, livelihood, and ecological services in developing nations is particularly challenging. The presentation measures water insecurity and implications for urbanized areas of South Asia with tables of trends in vulnerability.
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