Climate Resilient Water Resources Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Robert C. Brears

   Pages 1-3

3. Climate Change: Water and Sanitation

   • Tara Rava Zolnikov

   Pages 5-14

4. Resilience and Water Resources Management

   • Robert C. Brears

   Pages 15-30

5. Demand Management Strategies to Enhance Climate Resilience

   • Robert C. Brears

   Pages 31-47

6. A Survey of Water Technologies to Build Climate Resilience

   • Robert C. Brears

   Pages 49-76

7. Why Southern Africa Needs More than an Adaptation Strategy to Build Climate Resilient Floodplains: A Call for Transformative Water Security on the Kafue Flats of Zambia

   • Bimo Nkhata, Charles Breen, Machaya Chomba

   Pages 77-91

8. Shifting the Paradigm of Transboundary Water Resources Management Toward Climate Resilience

   • Manon Cassara

   Pages 93-111

9. Conclusions

   • Robert C. Brears

   Pages 113-115

10. Erratum to: Conclusions

    • Robert C. Brears

    Pages E1-E1

11. Back Matter

    Pages 117-119

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The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe. However, there is no single action or strategy that any government can implement to ensure a community is resilient to climate change-related extreme weather events while also protecting the natural system. Instead, Robert Brears argues, climate resilient water resources management requires integrated, forward-thinking policies that are not only adaptable to changing climatic conditions but also seek to maximise economic and social welfare in an equitable manner while ensuring the continued health of their ecosystems. This book addresses how several levels of government in different geographical locations, with varying climates, incomes, and lifestyles, have implemented a variety of policies and technologies to ensure communities are resilient to climatic risks, and how these policies preserve and enhance the natural system and its associated ecosystem’s health.

• climate resilience
• water resources management
• climate adaptation
• climate resilient communities
• Integrated Water Resources Management
• demand management
• water governance
• transformative water security
• Ecosystem Services
• Social-Hydrological System
• transboundary water governance
• sanitation resiliency
• sustainability
• climate change impacts
• water policy
• Climate change management
• climate change

• Our Future Water, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Robert C. Brears

Robert C. Brears is the series editor of Climate Resilient Societies and author of Urban Water Security and The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. He is Founder of 'Mitidaption', 'Mark and Focus', and 'Our Future Water'. 

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