Semi-arid Northeast Brazil: integrated modelling of regional development and global change impacts

Krol, Maarten S. and Fuhr, Dagmar and Döring, Andreas (2004) Semi-arid Northeast Brazil: integrated modelling of regional development and global change impacts. In: Environmental Change and Its Implications for Population Migration. Advances in global change research ; 20 . Kluwer academic publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 119-144. ISBN 9781402028687

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Abstract:	Societies in semi-arid areas in developing regions are amongst those most vulnerable to climate variability and potentially most vulnerable to climate change. The vulnerability to climate variability emerges from a combination of the level of availability of natural resources and the human dependency on these resources. In semi-arid regions, the limited availability of water and the low reliability of this availability pose strong restrictions on the use of natural resources. On the other hand, population often has a high density, and is strongly dependent on natural resources with little short-term options to reduce the dependency.
Item Type:	Book Section
Copyright:	© 2004 Kluwer Academic
Faculty:	Engineering Technology (CTW)
Research Group:	Water Engineering and Management (WEM)
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