Abstract
Climate change has been defined as a statistically significant variation of either variability or the mean of climate enduring for a prolonged period, generally decades or longer (Cubasch et al. 2013). Although there are both natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change, yet the contribution of human factors has been identified as more remarkable (Power and Goyal 2003).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Babel MS, Agarwal A, Swain DK, Herath S (2011) Evaluation of climate change impacts and adaptation measures for rice cultivation in Northeast Thailand. Clim Res 46:137–146
Bindoff NL, Willebrand J, Artale V, Cazenave A, Gregory J, Gulev S, Hanawa K, Le Quéré C, Levitus S, Nojiri Y, Shum CK, Talley LD, Unnikrishnan A (2007) Observations: oceanic climate change and sea level. In: Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M, Chen Z, Marquis M, Averyt KB, Tignor M, Miller HL (eds) Climate change 2007: the physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Box JE, Bromwich DH, Veenhuis BA, Bai LS, Stroeve JC, Rogers JC, Steffen K, Haran T, Wang SH (2006) Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance variability (1998–2004) from calibrated polar MM5 output. J Clim 19(2):2783–2800
Chiew FHS, Kirono DGC, Kent DM, Frost AJ, Charles SP, Timbal B, Nguyen KC, Fu G (2013) Comparison of runoff models using rainfall from different downscaling methods for historical and future climates. J Hydrol 387:10–23
Cubasch U, Wuebbles D, Chen D, Facchini MC, Frame D, Mahowald N, Winther JG (2013) Introduction. In: Stocker TF, Qin D, Plattner GK, TIgnor M, Allen SK, Boschung J, Nauels A, Xia Y, Bex V, Midgley PM (eds) Climate change 2013: the physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge
Ding YH, Ren GY, Shi GY, Gong P, Zheng XH, Zhai PM, Zhang DE, Zhao ZC, Wang SW, Wang HJ, Luo Y, Chen DL, Gao Xj, Dai XS (2006) National assessment report of climate change (I): climate change in China and its future trend. Advan Climate Change Res 2(1):3–8
El-Fadel M, Ghanimeh S, Maroun R, Alameddine I (2012) Climate change and temperature rise: implications on food- and water-borne diseases. Sci Total Environ 437:15–21
Gao F, Yu Z, Duan J, Ju Q (2012) Impact of climate change on water resources at local area in Anhui province. Procedia Engineering 28:319–325
Haeberli W, Burn C (2002) Natural hazards in forests: glacier and permafrost effects as related to climate change. In: Sidle RC (ed) Environmental change and geomorphic hazards in forests. Wallingford, Oxon, CABI Publishing, pp 167–202
Hundertmark W (2008) Building drought management capacity in the Mekong River Basin. Irri Drain 57:279–287
IPCC (2007) The physical science basis. In: Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M, Marquis M, Averyet K, Tignor MM et al. (eds) Contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Kang Y, Khan S (2009) Climate change impacts on crop yield, crop water productivity and food security: a review. Prog Nat Sci 19(12):1665–1674
Liang LQ, Li LJ, Liu Q (2011) Precipitation variability in Northeast China from 1961 to 2008. J Hydrol 404:67–76
Power HC, Goyal A (2003) Comparison of aerosol and climate variability over Germany and South Africa. Int J Climatol 23:921–941
Ray DK, Ramankutty N, Mueller ND, West PC, Foley A (2012) Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/ncomms2296
Rayanakorn K (2011) Climate change challenges in the Mekong region. Chiang Mai University Press, Chiang mai, Thailand
Seiller G, Anctill F (2013) Climate change impacts on the hydrologic regime of a Canadian river: comparing uncertainties arising from climate natural variability and lumped hydrological model structures. Hydrol Earth Syst Discuss 10:14189–14227
St Laurent J, Mazumder A (2014) Influence of seasonal and inter-annual hydro-meteorological variability on surface water fecal coliform concentration under varying land-use composition. Water Res 48:170–178
Tuckett RP (2009) The role of atmospheric gases in global warming. In: Climate change observed impacts on planet earth. Elsevier. pp 3–19
Vargas-Amelin, Pindado P (2013) The challenge of climate change in Spain: water resources, agriculture and land. J Hydrol. In Press
Zorita E, von Storch H (1999) The analogue method as a simple statistical downscaling technique: comparison with more complicated methods. J Clim 12:2474–2489
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Shrestha, S. (2014). Introduction. In: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Water Resources and Water Use Sectors. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09746-6_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09746-6_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-09745-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-09746-6
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)