Introduction to the Special Issue on "Adaptation and Resilience of Water Systems to an Uncertain Changing Climate"
Introduction to the Special Issue on "Adaptation and Resilience of Water Systems to an Uncertain Changing Climate"
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介绍“水系统对不确定气候变化的适应和恢复力”特刊
DOI：
10.1007/s11269-012-0254-3
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发表时间：
2013
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4.3
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Dessai S
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Dessai S
可靠的供水对人类健康和福祉至关重要。气候变化有可能以多种方式影响水系统：通过改变可用于抽取和储存的水，通过改变干旱频率和强度，以及通过改变需求和改变基础设施故障的风险。虽然这些变化的确切细节可能不确定，但全球气候正在发生变化的信心很高，因此不可避免地要适应不确定的气候变化。水资源管理者经常在气候稳定的假设下进行规划。在气候变化和其他社会经济变化的情况下，这一假设不再有效。这一特刊展示了多学科和跨学科方法对解决水系统未来适应和复原力问题的价值。在这个特殊的问题，主要是基于工作从英国的文章的范围，提供了一个跨学科的角度与水系统的适应性和弹性的问题，以不确定的气候变化。这些主题将引起对水资源管理和适应气候变化感兴趣的广大国际受众的共鸣。这一特刊在很大程度上来自与气候变化中的适应和复原力（ARCC-水）项目相关的研究，该项目由EPSRC（工程和物理科学研究理事会）资助，并由ESRC（经济和社会研究理事会）共同资助。因此，它包括了一些大学，研究机构，咨询公司以及参与ARCC水项目的政府和非政府利益相关者的调查结果和想法。一些论文（Browne等人，Korteling等人，Matrosov等人，
Reliable water supply is fundamental to human health and wellbeing. Climate change has the potential to affect water systems in a number of ways: through changes in the water available for abstraction and storage, through altered drought frequency and intensity, and through changes in demand and changing risk of infrastructure failure. While the precise details of these changes may be uncertain, there is high confidence that global climate is changing, thus making adaptation to an uncertain changing climate unavoidable. Water managers have often planned under the assumption of a stationary climate. This assumption is no longer valid under a changing climate and other socio-economic changes. This special issue demonstrates the value of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the future adaptation and resilience of water systems. The range of articles in this special issue, largely based on work from the UK, offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the issues associated with the adaptation and resilience of water systems to an uncertain changing climate. Such themes will resonate with a broad international audience interested in water resources management and adaption to climate change. This special issue has in large part emerged from research associated with the Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate (ARCC-Water) project funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) with co-funding by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). As such it includes the findings and thoughts from a number of universities, research institutions, consultancies, and government and non-government stakeholders involved in the ARCC-Water project. Some of the papers (Browne et al., Korteling et al., Matrosov et al.,