Climate Change In The Levant And North Africa Region: An Assessment Of Implications For Water Resources, Regional State Of Awareness And Preparedness, And The Road Ahead (Full Text) - Ifi Region-Specific Study

Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change in the Levant and North Africa Region: An Assessment of Implications for Water Resources, Regional State of Awareness and Preparedness, and the Road Ahead (Full Text)Hamed Assaf
It is now widely acknowledged that climate change is fast approaching us and many assert that it is already underway. Are we ready for it?
The bad news is that the Levant and North Africa (LNA) region is projected by most climate general circulation models (GCMs) to be the most severally impacted region in the world as it is expected to undergo severe water scarcity that will jeopardize its socio-economic development and potentially the very integrity of its nations. Countries of the LNA are already some of the most water impoverished in the world and are ill prepared to managing with even less water having some of the fastest expanding populations in the world with growing appetites for more water and water consuming goods and services.
It is ironic that climate change is actually projected to bring more water to the world, yet it is expected to bring more to those who have more of it, mainly equatorial and high latitude regions, and less for those who have less of it, mostly the subtropical mid-latitude areas such as the LNA. A more water polarized world is going to emerge as climate change intensifies.

Publisher: 
Issam Fares Institute For Public Policy And International Affairs
تاريخ النشر: 
السبت, 1 آب 2009
نوع المورد: 
Studies and Reports
حلة: 
Environment & Ecology
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