Climate Change and Water Resources

Hydrological Risk, Scarcity, Flooding, Ecosystems, and Adaptation for Global Water Security

De: Robert C. Brears

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Climate change is reshaping the water systems that societies depend on, turning warming into failed rains, falling aquifers, and rising floods. This book connects the physical science of a changing water cycle to the management, governance, and finance decisions that determine whether water remains secure.

- Understand how a warming atmosphere intensifies and reorganizes the global water cycle
- Analyze the detection, attribution, and projection of hydrological change under deep uncertainty
- Discover why water scarcity, drought, and groundwater depletion are accelerating worldwide
- Evaluate the drivers of escalating flood risk and compound hydrological hazards
- Examine how warming degrades water quality and threatens freshwater ecosystems
- Interpret the tightly coupled water, food, and energy systems under climate stress
- Evaluate adaptation strategies spanning infrastructure, demand management, and nature-based solutions
- Understand the governance, institutions, and finance that turn plans into resilient outcomes

Written for water professionals, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students, this book offers a rigorous, evidence-based framework for securing water in a warming world. Read it to move from reactive coping toward proactive resilience.