The role of small scale sand dams in securing water supply under climate change in Ethiopia

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 317-339

  Lasage, Ralph ^a,b   Aerts, Jeroen C J H ^a,b   Verburg, Peter H ^a,b   Sileshi, Alemu Seifu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Action for Development (AfD)   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Catchment model; Climate change; Environmental flow; Sand dam; Storage; Water harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883117007     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-013-9493-8     Document Type: Article

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