Surface Water Resources, Climate Change and Simulation Modeling

Water resources, climate change and human vulnerability

It is well recognised today that climate change is affecting the Earth’s physical and biological systems, and is expected to do so on forthcoming decadal to century timescales. A need exists for useable predictions of the impacts associated with such climate change, and the likely societal responses to these. This must also be seen in the context of other drivers of global change, and be presen...

Climate change and global water resources

By 2025, it is estimated that around 5 billion people, out of a total population of around 8 billion, will be living in countries experiencing water stress (using more than 20% of their available resources). Climate change has the potential to impose additional pressures in some regions. This paper describes an assessment of the implications of climate change for global hydrological regimes and...

Climate change, water resources and child health.

Climate change is occurring and has tremendous consequences for children's health worldwide. This article describes how the rise in temperature, precipitation, droughts, floods, glacier melt and sea levels resulting from human-induced climate change is affecting the quantity, quality and flow of water resources worldwide and impacting child health through dangerous effects on water supply and s...

Linking climate change and water resources: impacts and responses

Climate Change Impact on Water Resources and Life Quality

The climate changes represent one of the major challenges in our century with major impact upon human being. This is the reason for which the study of the effects brought about by the climatic changes is one of the most current themes on international level. According to the meteorological events of the last years, Romania will be one of the most affected countries by the climate changes effect...