Climate change and water resources: risk-based approaches for decision-making

Thesis

Water-resource managers are facing unprecedented challenges in accommodating the large uncertainties associated with climate change in their planning decisions. Integration of climate risk information is a pre-requisite for water resources planning under a changing climate, yet this information is often presented outside the decision-making context and in a way which is not relevant for the decision at hand. Furthermore, there is a lack of approaches that explicitly evaluate the impact of...

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Authors: Borgomeo, E

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: climate change adaptation; water security; risk-based decision-making; urban water supply
• Subjects: Water-supply; Infrastructure (Economics)--Planning; Water resources development; Climatic changes; Water resources development--Planning; Risk management