Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

Fai Fung is a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a lecturer on the MSc Water Science, Policy and Management at the School of Geography, University of Oxford.  His main expertise is in hydrological modelling with respect to water resources and aquatic ecosystems with a particular focus on the assessment of impacts of climate change. Ana Lopez is a researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics. Her research focuses on the suitability of climate modelling information to quantify climate change impacts and to inform adaptation decision making. Mark New works on climate change and impacts on water resources in a range of locations, with particular focus on quantification of uncertainty in climate projections for regional and local impacts assessment and adaptation, and on robust approaches to decision-making under uncertainty.

• Contributors. Preface.1 INTRODUCTION (Fai Fung, Ana Lopez and Mark New).2 WEATHER AND CLIMATE (Daithı A. Stone and Reto Knutti).3 REGIONALCLIMATEDOWNSCALING (Robert L. Wilby and Hayley J. Fowler).4 WATER FOR PEOPLE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER AVAILABILITY (Glenn Watts).5 EMERGING APPROACHES TO CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT (Ana Lopez, Robert L. Wilby, Fai Fung and Mark New).6 THE CASE STUDIES.6.1 Introduction.6.2 Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Quaraı River Basin (Rodrigo Paiva, Walter Collischonn and Edith Beatriz Schettini).6.3 Impact of Climate Change on Hydropower: Ariege, France (Jean-Philippe Vidal and Fre´de´ ric Hendrickx).6.4 ACase Study of Water Resource Management in the South West of England (Ana Lopez).Index.Colour plate section.

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