Adapting to Climate Change in Urbanizing Watersheds (ACCUWa) : situation in Arkavathy basin

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2013

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Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

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The research entailed a comparative study of climate change‐water vulnerability and adaptation in two urbanizing watersheds. The presentation underlines multiple levels of complexity where the approach of blindly applying historical rainfall‐runoff relationships to predict future water supply are no longer valid. With climate change, multiple scales of vulnerability need also be factored in: climate variability occurs at the basin scale, whereas vulnerability is experienced at the household scale. As well, different areas of the watershed are vulnerable to different supply variability pathways. A new approach to planning for climate vulnerability will encompass multiple stressors.

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PowerPoint presentation
Meeting: June 18-20, 2013

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WATERSHED, URBANIZATION, CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, INDIA, PERI-URBAN AREAS, RIVER BASINS, WATER SUPPLY, GROUNDWATER, SOUTH ASIA, WATER MANAGEMENT, BANGALORE

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/52588

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IDRC Research Results / Résultats de recherches du CRDI
2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019
Asia / Asie
Disaster Risk Reduction / Réduction des risques de catastrophes
Research Results (CCW) / Résultats de recherches (CCE)
Urban and Peri-urban Water and Sanitation / Eau et assainissement urbain et péri-urbain
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