Limitations of Water Resources Infrastructure for Reducing Community Vulnerabilities to Extremes and Uncertainty of Flood and Drought

Canada AGRICULTURE CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY Climate Change Argentina Colombia 01 natural sciences Article Residence Characteristics CLIMATE EXTREMES 11. Sustainability https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5 Animals Humans ADAPTATION 0105 earth and related environmental sciences VULNERABILITY 2. Zero hunger Conservation of Water Resources Uncertainty 1. No poverty Agriculture Forestry 15. Life on land https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9 Floods 6. Clean water Droughts 13. Climate action WATER RESOURCES Water Resources Cattle
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-018-1104-8 Publication Date: 2018-09-20T16:26:32Z
ABSTRACT
Debate and deliberation surrounding climate change has shifted from mitigation toward adaptation, with much of the adaptation focus centered on adaptive practices, and infrastructure development. However, there is little research assessing expected impacts, potential benefits, and design challenges that exist for reducing vulnerability to expected climate impacts. The uncertainty of design requirements and associated government policies, and social structures that reflect observed and projected changes in the intensity, duration, and frequency of water-related climate events leaves communities vulnerable to the negative impacts of potential flood and drought. The results of international research into how agricultural infrastructure features in current and planned adaptive capacity of rural communities in Argentina, Canada, and Colombia indicate that extreme hydroclimatic events, as well as climate variability and unpredictability are important for understanding and responding to community vulnerability. The research outcomes clearly identify the need to deliberately plan, coordinate, and implement infrastructures that support community resiliency.
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