Community Capacity for Adaptation to Climate-Induced Water Shortages: Linking Institutional Complexity and Local Actors

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-47

  Ivey, Janet L ^a   Smithers, John ^a   De Loë, Rob C ^a   Kreutzwiser, Reid D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Capacity; Climate change; Drought management; Local adaptation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; RESOURCE SCARCITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADAPTATION; CANADA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 1842582924     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0014-5     Document Type: Review

References (59)

1. Adger, W. N. 1999. Social vulnerability to climate change and extremes in coastal Vietnam. World Development 27:249-269.
2. Biswas, A. K. 1996. Capacity building for water management: some personal thoughts. Water Resources Development 12:399-405.
3. Burton, I. 1996. The growth of adaptation capacity: practice and policy. Pages 55-67 in J. B. Smith, N. Bhatti, G. V. Menzhulin, R. Benioff, M. Campos, B. Jallow, F. Rijsberman, M. I. Budyko, and R. K. Dixon. Eds, Adapting to climate change: an international perspective. Springer-Verlag, New York.
4. Burton, I., J. B. Smith, and S. Lenhart. 1998. Adaptation to climate change: theory and assessment. Pages 5-1-5-24 in J. F. Feenstra, I. Burton, J. B. Smith, and R. S. J. Tol. Eds, Handbook on methods for climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
5. Chang, Y. M., and A. Desai. 2001. Local control, local capacity and regulatory effectiveness: Issues in municipal water pollution control. Pages 176-191 in M. R. Daniels Ed, Creating sustainable community programs: examples of collaborative public administration. Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut.
6. Cohen, J. M. 1995. Capacity building in the public sector: a focused framework for analysis and action. International Review of Administrative Sciences 61:407-422.
7. Credit Valley Conservation. 1998. West Credit subwatershed study - characterization report. Unpublished report. Meadowvale, Ontario, 135 pp.
8. Credit Valley Conservation. 1999a. Water users' workshop: summary of closing discussion. October 29, 1999. Unpublished report. Meadowvale, Ontario, 2 pp.
9. Credit Valley Conservation. 1999b. Who is managing our water? Press release. June 19, 1999. Meadowvale, Ontario.
10. Credit Valley Conservation. 1999c. Managing Ontario's water-what do we need to do? Press release. July 7, 1999. Meadowvale, Ontario, 2 pp.
11. Credit Valley Conservation, Environmental Water Resources Group, Ortech Corporation, Terraqua Investigations Limited, and Water Systems Analysts. 1997. Caledon Creek and Credit River subwatershed study-draft characterization report. Unpublished report. Meadowvale, Ontario, 127 pp.
12. de Loë, R. C., S. E. Di Giantomasso, and R. D. Kreutzwiser. 2002. Local capacity for groundwater protection in Ontario. Environmental Management 29:217-233.
13. de Loë, R. C., and R. D. Kreutzwiser. 2000. Climate variability, climate change and water resource management in the Great Lakes. Climatic Change 45:163-79.
14. de Loë, R., R. Kreutzwiser, and L. Moraru. 2001. Adaptation options for the near term: Climate change and the Canadian water sector. Global Environmental Change 11:231-245.
15. Etkin, D. 1998. Climate change and extreme events: Canada. Pages 31-80 in N. Mayer, and W. Avis. Eds, The Canada country study: climate impacts and adaptation, volume viii, national cross-cutting issues volume. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
16. Furuseth, O., and C. Cocklin. 1995. Regional perspectives on resource policy: Implementing sustainable management in New Zealand. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 38:181-200.
17. Gabriel, A. O., and R. D. Kreutzwiser. 1993. Drought hazard in Ontario: a review of impacts, 1960-1989, and management implications. Canadian Water Resources Journal 18:117-132.
18. Gargan, J. J. 1981. Consideration of local government capacity. Public Administration Review 41:649-658.
19. Grigg, N. S., and E. C. Vlachos. 1993. Drought and water-supply management: roles and responsibilities. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 119:531-541.
20. Grindle, M. S., and M. E. Hilderbrand. 1995. Building sustainable capacity in the public sector: what can be done?. Public Administration and Development 15:441-463.
21. Hamdy, A., M. Abu-Zeid, and C. Lacirignola. 1998. Institutional capacity building for water sector development. Water International 23:126-133.
22. Holmes, P. R. 1996. Building capacity for environmental management in Hong Kong. Water Resources Development 12:461-472.
23. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2001. Climate change 2001: Synthesis report. Geneva, Switzerland, 145 pp.
24. Johnston, R. J., D. Gregory, G. Pratt, and M. Watts. 2000. The dictionary of human geography, fourth edition. Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Malden, MA 976.
25. Kelly, P. M., and W. N. Adger. 2000. Theory and practice in assessing vulnerability to climate change and facilitating adaptation. Climatic Change 47:325-352.
26. KPMG LLP Chartered Accountants. 2000. Financial statements of Credit Valley Conservation Authority: year ended Dec. 31, 1999. Mississauga, Ontario, 17 pp.
27. Krajuc, A. 2000. Wither Ontario's environment? Neo-conservatism and the decline of the Environment Ministry. Canadian Public Policy 26:111-127.
28. Lavender, B., J. V. Smith, G. Koshida, and L. D. Mortsch. 1998. Binational Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Basin climate change and hydrologic scenarios report. Environment Canada, Environmental Adaptation Research Group, Downsview, Ontario, pp 99
29. Lorenzoni, I., A. Jordan, T. O'Riordan, R. K. Turner, and M. Hulme. 2000. A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment: Part II. A scenario-based case study in East Anglia (UK). Global Environmental Change 10:145-155.
30. Merrey, D. J., D. H. Murray-Rust, C. Garces-Restrepo, R. Sakthivadivel, and W. A. U. W. Kumara. 1995. Performance improvement capacity audit: a methodology for diagnosing capacity to improve irrigation performance. Water Resources Development 11:11-24.
31. Mitchell, B., and J. J. Pigram. 1989. Integrated resource management and the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust, NSW, Australia. Applied Geography 9:196-211.
32. Molot, L., K. Clark, D. Molnar, J. Henderson, and J. Greatorex. 2001. Liquid assets-monitoring water quality in Ontario. Sustainable Toronto, Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, and York University Faculty of Environmental Studies, Toronto, 9 pp.
33. Mortsch, L., H. Hengeveld, M. Lister, B. Lofgren, F. Quinn, M. Slivitzky, and L. Wenger. 2000. Climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system. Canadian Water Resources Journal 25:153-179.
34. Mortsch, L. D., and F. H. Quinn. 1996. Climate change scenarios for Great Lakes Basin ecosystem studies. Limnology and Oceanography 41:903-911.
35. Nuttle, W. K. 1993. Adaptation to climate change and variability in Canadian water resources. Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 30 pp.
36. O'Connor, D. R. 2002. Report of the Walkerton Inquiry: the events of May 2000 and related issues. Part One. Queen's Printer for Ontario, Toronto 188.
37. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 1996. Municipal financial information: 1994. Queen's Printer for Ontario, Toronto. 320 pp.
38. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Association of Municipalities of Ontario, and Conservation Ontario. 2001. Ontario low water response. Province of Ontario, 36 pp.
39. Ontario Ministry of the Environment. 2001a. Operation clean water: municipal groundwater studies. Media Backgrounder. August 22, 2001. 4 pp.
40. Ontario Ministry of the Environment. 2001b. Overview of post-Walkerton clean water activities. News release. June, 2001. 4 pp.
41. Planning & Engineering Initiatives Limited, Gartner Lee Limited, Armour Environmental Consultants Limited, and Cansult Group Limited. 1999. Caledon community resources study: a new direction in aggregate resource management, phase 3: study findings & recommendations. Unpublished report. 111 pp.
42. Regional Municipality of Peel. 2001. Peel regional council endorses 2001 Peel children's water festival. News release. February 16, 2001.
43. REIC Consulting Limited, Blease & Associates Consulting Limited, and Hemson Consulting Limited. 1998. Town of Orangeville water efficiency study, final report. Unpublished report. 40 pp.
44. Shanaghan, P. E., I. P. Kline, J. A. Beecher, and R. T. Jones. 1998. SDWA capacity development. Journal of the American Water Works Association 90:51-59.
45. Shaw, D. T., R. T. Henderson, and M. E. Cardona. 1992. Urban drought response in southern California: 1990-91. Journal of the American Water Works Association 84:34-41.
46. Smit, B., and O. Pilifosova. 2001. Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity. Pages 876-912 in J. J. McCarthy, O. F. Canziani, N. A. Leary, D. J. Dokken, and K. S. White. Eds, Climate change 2001: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability-contribution of working group it to the third assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
47. Smith, J. B., and S. S. Lenhart. 1996. Climate change adaptation policy options. Climate Research 6:193-201.
48. Smithers, J., and B. Smit. 1997. Human adaptation to climatic variability and change. Global Environmental Change 7:129-146.
49. Strzepek, K. M., M. Campos, Z. Kaczmarek, A. Sanchez, D. N. Yates, J. Carmichael, G. M. S. Chavula, A. B. Chirwa, M. Mirza, B. Minarik, and R. Warrick. 1998. Water Resources. Pages 6-1-6-36 in J. F. Feenstra, I. Burton, J. B. Smith, and R. S. J. Tol. Eds, Handbook on methods for climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
50. Subak, S. 2000. Climate change adaptation in the U.K. water industry: managers' perceptions of past variability and future scenarios. Water Resources Management 14:137-156.
51. Toman, M., and R. Bierbaum. 1996. An overview of adaptation to climate change. Pages 5-15 in J. B. Smith, N. Bhatti, G. V. Menzhulin, R. Benioff, M. Campos, B. Jallow, F. Rijsberman, M. I. Budyko, and R. K. Dixon. Eds, Adapting to climate change: an international perspective. Springer-Verlag, New York.
52. Town of Orangeville Public Works Department. 2000. 1999 municipal well summary and annual monitoring report Unpublished report. 105 pp.
53. United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Guidance on implementing the capacity development provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act amendments of 1996. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, DC, 60 pp.
54. Walker, S., and H. A. Smithers. 1995. Recent advances in drought management with particular reference to northwest England. in Modeling and management of sustainable basin-scale water resource systems. International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, pp 107-116
55. Weiland, P. S. 1998. Environmental regulations and local government institutional capacity. Public Administration Quarterly 22:176-203.
56. Wheaton, E. E., and D. C. MacIver. 1999. A framework and key questions for adapting to climate variability and change. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 4:215-225.
57. Wilhite, D. A. 1996. A methodology for drought preparedness. Natural Hazards 13:229-252.
58. Woo, C. 1992. Drought management, service interruption, and water pricing: evidence from Hong Kong. Water Resources Research 28:2591-2595.
59. Woo, V. 1982. Drought management: expecting the unexpected. Journal of the American Water Works Association 74:126-131.