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Climate and water : transboundary challenges in the Americas / edited by Henry F. Diaz and Barbara J. Morehouse.

Contributor(s): Series: Advances in global change research ; 16.Dordrecht ; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003Description: xx, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1402015291 (alk. paper)
  • 9781402015298 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TD221 .C58 2003
Contents:
SECTION A: WATER POLICY, INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETY -- Climate and water in transboundary contexts: an introduction / Henry F. Diaz, Barbara J. Morehouse -- Boundaries in climate-water discourse / Barbara J. Morehouse -- Experience and role of the organization of American states in transboundary river basin management in Latin America / Jorge Rucks -- Coping with climate variability: municipal water agencies agencies in southern California / Denise Lach ... [et al.] -- Impacts of climate fluctuations and climate changes on the sustainable development of the arid Norte Grande in Chile / Hugo Romero, Stephanie Kampf -- Water resource management in response to El Ni�no-Southern oscillation (ENSO) droughts and floods: the case of Ambos Nogales / Terry Sprouse, Lisa Farrow Vaughan -- Transboundary water problems as "jurisdictional externalities": increased economic efficiency through institutional reforms / Charles W. Howe -- Impacts in Mexico of Colorado river management in the United States: a history of neglect, a future of uncertainty / David H. Getches -- Reservoir management in the interior west: the influence of climate variability and functional linkages of water / Andrea J. Ray -- SECTION B: CLIMATE, HYDROLOGY, AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES -- Biomes, river basins, and climate regions: rational tools for water resources management / Henry F. Diaz -- The transboundary setting of California's water and hydropower systems: linkages between the Sierra Nevada, Columbia, and Colorado hydroclimates / Daniel R. Cayan ... [et al.] -- The role of transboundary agreements in the Columbia River Basin: an integrated assessment in the context of historic development, climate, and evolving water policy / Alan Hamlet -- Climate doesn't stop at the border: U.S.-Mexico climatic regions and causes of variability / Andrew C. Comrie -- Climate and climate variability in the Arenal River basin of Costa Rica / Jorge A. Amador ... [et al.] -- Nonlinear forecasting of river flows in Colombia based upon ENSO and its associated economic value for hydropower generation / Germ�an Poveda ... [et al.] -- Climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on the freshwater resources in the border region: a case study for Sonora, Mexico / Victor O. Maga�na, Cecilia Conde -- Land cover changes and climate fluctuations in the upper San Pedro River Basin in Sonora, Mexico / H�ector M. Arias.
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SECTION A: WATER POLICY, INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETY -- Climate and water in transboundary contexts: an introduction / Henry F. Diaz, Barbara J. Morehouse -- Boundaries in climate-water discourse / Barbara J. Morehouse -- Experience and role of the organization of American states in transboundary river basin management in Latin America / Jorge Rucks -- Coping with climate variability: municipal water agencies agencies in southern California / Denise Lach ... [et al.] -- Impacts of climate fluctuations and climate changes on the sustainable development of the arid Norte Grande in Chile / Hugo Romero, Stephanie Kampf -- Water resource management in response to El Ni�no-Southern oscillation (ENSO) droughts and floods: the case of Ambos Nogales / Terry Sprouse, Lisa Farrow Vaughan -- Transboundary water problems as "jurisdictional externalities": increased economic efficiency through institutional reforms / Charles W. Howe -- Impacts in Mexico of Colorado river management in the United States: a history of neglect, a future of uncertainty / David H. Getches -- Reservoir management in the interior west: the influence of climate variability and functional linkages of water / Andrea J. Ray -- SECTION B: CLIMATE, HYDROLOGY, AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES -- Biomes, river basins, and climate regions: rational tools for water resources management / Henry F. Diaz -- The transboundary setting of California's water and hydropower systems: linkages between the Sierra Nevada, Columbia, and Colorado hydroclimates / Daniel R. Cayan ... [et al.] -- The role of transboundary agreements in the Columbia River Basin: an integrated assessment in the context of historic development, climate, and evolving water policy / Alan Hamlet -- Climate doesn't stop at the border: U.S.-Mexico climatic regions and causes of variability / Andrew C. Comrie -- Climate and climate variability in the Arenal River basin of Costa Rica / Jorge A. Amador ... [et al.] -- Nonlinear forecasting of river flows in Colombia based upon ENSO and its associated economic value for hydropower generation / Germ�an Poveda ... [et al.] -- Climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on the freshwater resources in the border region: a case study for Sonora, Mexico / Victor O. Maga�na, Cecilia Conde -- Land cover changes and climate fluctuations in the upper San Pedro River Basin in Sonora, Mexico / H�ector M. Arias.

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