These circumstances increase their already high levels of vulnerability that are due to congestion and lack of essential amenities, such as adequate sanitation [25]. Poor and congested living conditions without access to clean water and sanitation significantly increase the risk of waterborne diseases, ...
The vulnerability of particular infrastructure depends on its sensitivity to climate risk – that is, the tendency of infrastructure to be affected due to at least three factors: the age, the composition and the design of infrastructure – and the adaptive capacity of the sector by minimizing ...
Access through your organization Section snippets Background: resilience to climate change impacts on water governance Resilience is defined as a measure of the amount of perturbation a linked social-ecological system (SES) can withstand and still maintain the same structure and functions (Holling et...
Hence, these circumstances constitute a serious risk for pastoral livelihoods. One crucial measure championed by governments and organizations to support pastoralists’ resilience to droughts is the construction of small water infrastructures (SWIs), such as deep wells and boreholes. Especially during ...
Without a doubt, water scarcity and resilience is one of the great challenges of our time. As continued population growth and industrialization increase global water demand, a massive strain is being placed on natural water sources. 25 countries (nearly one-quarter of the global population) face ...
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)'s Water Disclosure provides critical water-related data from the world's largest corporations to inform the global market place on investment risk and commercial opportunity. The project requests infor... A Us - 《Water Disclosure Project》 被引量: 0发表: 2010...
51. It is critical that the needs of marginalised people and vulnerable communities for basic services such as water security are heard in policymaking processes to make the community more sustainable8. However, the inverted U-shaped relationship discussed herein indicates a potential risk of ...
The Food and Agriculture Organization even listed irrigation as one of six technologies that are key for improving food security resilience. I asked Todd Simenson, one of our water resource engineers, what trends he is seeing. Todd: Some municipalities in Western Canada are expecting—or are ...
Lifetime (>1 year) depression prevalence rates are from the Centers for Disease Control Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Data for Michigan in 2019 and the United States in 2018 and Lim et al25 for the global average. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health does not report standard ...
Resilience, rivers and governance: Learning from experience PaulMartin,CameronHolley, inResilience and Riverine Landscapes, 2024 Introduction: Framing the argument The American aphorist Henry Mencken noted that when dealing with daunting challenges, ‘there is always an easy solution to every human problem...