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Future Irrigation Demand of South Saskatchewan River Basin under the Combined Impacts of Climate Change and El Niño Southern Oscillation

Islam, Zahidul; Gan, Thian - In: Water Resources Management 29 (2015) 6, pp. 2091-2105

<Para ID="Par1">We assessed the future irrigation demand of the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) of Alberta subjected to combined impact of climate change and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) using the Irrigation District Model (IDM) of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. Based on the...</para>

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Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate

Pearce, Rebecca; Dessai, Suraje; Barr, Stewart - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 4, pp. 959-979

This paper considers aspects of environmental social science research in the UK and explores an obvious bias towards the development of instruments to manage demand as an adaptation to climate change, and consequently the predominance of interest in the customer from a demand-side perspective....

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Water Resources Management Strategies for Adaptation to Climate-Induced Impacts in South Africa

Mukheibir, Pierre - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 9, pp. 1259-1276

This paper focuses on the development of a framework for strategy considerations for water resources management in South Africa to meet the development goals in the municipal and agricultural sectors. The north western part of South Africa experiences severe periods of drought and according to...

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Evaluating Long-Term Trends in Annual and Seasonal Precipitation in Taiwan

Yu, Pao-Shan; Yang, Tao-Chang; Kuo, Chun-Chao - In: Water Resources Management 20 (2006) 6, pp. 1007-1023

This work studies long-term rainfall variations in Taiwan and provides local climate change analyses to global climate change. Around a century of rainfall data from 33 rain-gauges populate the database used herein. Statistical tests, such as cumulative deviations, Mann-Whitney-Pettitt...

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Development of a Demand Driven Hydro-climatic Model for Drought Planning

Karamouz, Mohammad; Imen, Sanaz; Nazif, Sara - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 2, pp. 329-357

of reservoirs in drought periods could help to mitigate the drought impacts by reducing the expected water shortages. For … planning; streamflow should be simulated under climate change impacts. For this purpose, the climatic variables including … temperature and precipitation in the future under climate change impacts are simulated using downscaled GCM (General Circulation …

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Basin Scale Water Resources Systems Modeling Under Cascading Uncertainties

Rehana, S.; Mujumdar, P. - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 10, pp. 3127-3142

Global change in climate and consequent large impacts on regional hydrologic systems have, in recent years, motivated … management model should capture the likely impacts of climate change on water demands and water availability along with … uncertainties associated with climate change impacts and with management goals and objectives under non-stationary conditions …

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Climate Change Adaptation in the U.K. Water Industry: Managers' Perceptions of Past Variability and Future Scenarios

Subak, Susan - In: Water Resources Management 14 (2000) 2, pp. 137-156

In this article, the relationship between U.K. watercompanies' perceptions of past climatic extremes andtheir effect on resilience to future climatic changeis explored. Perceptions and activities related topast and future dry periods was investigated throughinterviews with managers at the ten...

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Modelling the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Snowpack in the North Saskatchewan River Watershed, Alberta

MacDonald, Ryan; Byrne, James; Boon, Sarah; Kienzle, Stefan - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 11, pp. 3053-3076

The North Saskatchewan River basin is a large watershed in central Alberta that provides water for a range of stakeholders, including large municipalities, agricultural operations, power generation, and resource extraction industries. This study assesses potential future changes in snowpack for...

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Integrated Reservoir Management System for Flood Risk Assessment Under Climate Change

Eum, Hyung-Il; Vasan, A.; Simonovic, Slobodan - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 13, pp. 3785-3802

Operations of existing reservoirs will be affected by climate change. Reservoir operating rules developed using historical information will not provide the optimal use of storage under changing hydrological conditions. In this paper, an integrated reservoir management system has been developed...

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Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development of Water Resources in the Himalayan Headwaters of India

Tiwari, Prakash; Joshi, Bhagwati - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 4, pp. 883-907

The nature of terrain imposes severe limitations on the scale of productive activities as well as on the efficiency of infrastructural facilities in the Indian Himalaya. As a result, biomass based subsistence agriculture constitutes the main source of rural livelihood. During the recent past,...

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