Climate Change and Water Infrastructure
Author Information
Author(s): John H. Matthews, Bart A.J. Wickel, Sarah Freeman
Primary Institution: Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund
Hypothesis
How can conservation science provide practical decision-making tools for funding, designing, and operating water infrastructure that enables both economic and ecological sustainability?
Conclusion
Climate change is making sustainable development more complex, requiring conservation science to help manage natural resources effectively.
Supporting Evidence
- Climate change presents serious challenges to water resources management.
- Ecologists and economists need to collaborate more effectively to address climate impacts.
- Infrastructure designed under the assumption of stationarity is vulnerable to climate shifts.
Takeaway
This study talks about how climate change affects water management and why we need to think differently about building and using water infrastructure.
Limitations
The ability to project future eco-hydrological conditions is limited due to uncertainties in climate models.
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