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Some Considerations on Climatic Changes, Water Resources and Water Needs in the Italian Region South of 43°N

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Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change

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Whatever their causes might be, climatic changes inexorably affect the water cycle. Along with trends in mean values in all aspects of the weather (precipitation, temperature, evaporation, etc.), one can expect variations in the frequency of exceptional events, and also in the hydrological regime. There maybe major consequences in terms of economy and quality of life. This has often occurred in the past, and it would be strange if does not happen again in the future. Besides the climate’s natural variability, there are good reasons to think that man’s activities these last two hundred years are leading towards a considerable rise in air temperature, the well-known anthropogenic greenhouse effect. So it is important to attempt to define in advance the environmental scenarios which can reasonably be expected to take place.

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Dragoni, W. (1998). Some Considerations on Climatic Changes, Water Resources and Water Needs in the Italian Region South of 43°N. In: Issar, A.S., Brown, N. (eds) Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3659-6_11

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