Possible climate change/variability and human impacts, vulnerability of drought-prone regions, water resources and capacity building for Africa

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1209-1226

  Gan, T Y ^a,b   Ito, Mari ^a   Hulsmann S ^a   Qin, X ^c   Lu, X X ^d   Liong, S Y ^d   Rutschman, P ^e   Disse, M ^e   Koivusalo, H ^f  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Climate anomalies; Droughts; Impact of climate change; Land use changes; Uncertainties; Vulnerability; Water resources of Africa

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; SOIL MOISTURE;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; LAND-USE CHANGE; UNCERTAINTIES; VULNERABILITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; LAND USE CHANGE; VULNERABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

AFRICA;

EID: 84961390923     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2015.1057143     Document Type: Article

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