Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources Management : Adaptation Challenges and Opportunities in Northeast Brazil
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity and valuable crops, and also harbors...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/07/18004488/climate-change-impacts-water-resources-management-adaptation-challenges-opportunities-northeast-brazil http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16593 |
| Summary: | The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)
region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it
comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with
natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity and
valuable crops, and also harbors the world's greatest
carbon sink in the Amazon. Over the past twenty years, the
LAC region has made impressive gains in tackling these
issues. It leads the developing world in biodiversity
conservation and natural resource management and is at the
forefront in reducing urban pollution. The environment and
water resources occasional paper series is a publication of
the Environment and Water Resources Unit (LCSEN) of the
sustainable development department in the World Bank's
Latin America and the Caribbean Region. The purpose of the
series is to contribute to the global knowledge exchange on
innovation in environmental and water resources management
and the pursuit of greener and more inclusive growth. The
papers seek to bring to a broader public-decision makers,
development practitioners, academics and other
partners-lessons learned from World Bank financed projects,
technical assistance and other knowledge activities jointly
undertaken with partners. This project proved to be a
critical first step in better understanding how climate
change will translate to water scarcity, and how the
drought-prone and rapidly developing Northeast Region of
Brazil could adapt through more flexible water management
and allocation strategies. |
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