climate change and glacier lake outburst floods and the associated vulnerability in nepal and bhutan
Exposure to floods, climate change, and poverty in vietnam
... This paper provides an in depth case study of floods, poverty, and climate change in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City, examining the exposure of the total population, and poor people in particular to current and future flood risk. It makes two contributions; the first is that it combines state‐of the art hazard maps with ... 1 in 250 1 in 500 1 in 1000 5 For most of the analyses, the “combined” maps are used, which include both coastal and the fluvial/pluvial floods. For instance, the combined maps for the 25‐year return period flood (under current conditions, ... to increase in a warmer climate, owing to the increased water holding capacity of the atmosphere. Therefore instead of a direct modeling approach, future climate scenarios were inferred by ...
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Climate change and variability in vietnam and strategiesto be addapted on agriculture for sustainable development
... difference In general temperature is increasing sunshine duration is decreasing typhoon is moving in the South, the change of rainfall is not clear for every regions The effect of climate change and ... Vinh (North central region), Can tho and Bac Lieu (Mekong river delta) On the other hand, in winter-spring season rainfall is increasing trend which observed at Bac Giang, Ha noi, Nam dinh, Vinh, ... reduction of the degree of climate change Adaptation is essential to cope with the climate change we cannot avoid now and in the near future, while mitigation would limit the exten of the climate change...
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Climate change and farmers’ adaptation
... study, climate change is defined as changes through increasing in frequency and intensity of extremes weather events including storm, flood, drought and irregular rain over time and irregular climate ... results in increasing the mortality rate of their livestock (Gorforth, 2008) Third, increasing temperature in the summer has led to decreasing the amount of food intake because of the increasing ... land plots land including garden land and agricultural land Table 4.3 presents that the size of land area in the study was not a problem Average farm size including garden, agricultural land and...
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Tài liệu Climate change and impacts in Viet Nam pptx
... Resources • Instability in rainfall would cause more severe floods in rainy season and droughts in dry season • Increase in frequency and intensity of typhoons, storms would cause high floods & inundation, ... contraction and expansion, changes in transmission season High confidence Increase in malnutrition Increase in the number of people suffering from deaths, disease and injuries from extreme weather events ... southward and typhoon season shifts to later months of the year; Climate Change in Vietnam • High floods occur more frequently in the Central and Southern Vietnam • Drought happen every year in most...
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Tài liệu CLIMATE CHANGE AND TOURISM: WHERE WILL THE JOURNEY LEAD? docx
... playing a decisive role in causing and accelerating climate change According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the probable effects of climate change include a rise in the ... million) were on the “old continent” In the following comments, we concentrate mainly on the changes in climate and, in passing, on the possibilities for adaptation The increasing price of mobility ... tourism in Great Britain is centred on England, especially on the south of the country, including Cornwall in the southwest and the London conurbation in the southeast Climate change could result in...
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Tài liệu LIVESTOCK''''S ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE AND AIR POLLUTION ppt
... grasslands and the overriding humaninfluenced factor in determining their soil carbon Livestock’s role in climate change and air pollution levels Consequently, in many systems, improved grazing ... competitive demand between users Changes in land use have an impact in carbon fluxes, and many of the land-use changes involve livestock, either occupying land (as pasture or arable land for feedcrops) ... functioning and the living communities they support What poses a problem to the atmosphere is that human intervention in the nitrogen cycle has changed the balance of N species in the atmosphere and...
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Tài liệu FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLAR ECOSYSTEMS REPORT OF A WORKSHOP docx
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems: Summary of a Workshop 36 FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLAR ECOSYSTEMS Marine As in the terrestrial case, there is an increase ... one of the greatest challenges facing those scientists investigating climatic and environmental change since the intrinsic properties can be nonlinear and abrupt In the polar regions, there is...
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Gender, Climate Change and Health pot
... poisoning include skin lesions, hardening of the skin, dark spots on the hands and feet, swollen limbs and loss of sensation in the hands and legs (UNICEF, 2008) 12 Gender, Climate Change and Health ... roles and relations explain the differences in fatality between women and men in floods in Nepal In 1993 a severe flash flood devastated the district of Sarlahi in the southern plains of Nepal ... pre-eclampsia during the year These changes corresponded with the seasonal variation in precipitation, with incidence increasing at the end of the dry season and in the first months of the rainy season...
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Action on Climate Change and Air Pollution pptx
... coming into force between 2012 and 2015 This will give businesses time to make the investments they need to respect their reduction targets Other Things We Are Doing to Fight Climate Change and ... of the environment, and both are vulnerable to the effects of air pollution and climate change Economic Benefits Clear and strong regulations will mean more investment in technology and innovation ... will be able to choose the best way to meet their reduction targets in a cost-effective way This includes making reductions in their own facilities, investing in emissionreducing technologies like...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 1 ppt
... CONTENTS ix CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIER LAKE OUTBURST FLOODS AND THE ASSOCIATED VULNERABILITY IN NEPAL AND BHUTAN Motilal Ghimire 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Introduction GLOF Hydrology Studies About Glacier ... rainfall in central Nepal triggered disastrous landslides, and caused debris flows and major flooding in main streams and the Terai plains Nepal is also vulnerable to Glacier Lake Outburst Floods ... other place in the world There is also a winter monsoon (Northeast monsoon), created during the winter when the sun's rays are stronger in the Southern Hemisphere During this season, the continents...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 2 doc
... to the system Box 2.2 The Indus basin The Indus River basin stretches from the Himalayan Mountains in the North, to the dry alluvial plains of the Sindh Province of Pakistan in the South The ... (sub-basin) Delineation: Automatic delineation of watersheds was done by using the DEM as input and the final outflow point on each river basin as the pour point Weather Data: The weather data ... the Gauhati and Sylhet (the wetter stations) the changes in runoff are +6% and +8%, respectively In the extreme case, a 5oC increase in temperature and a 20% increase in precipitation could increase...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 3 ppt
... floods vary between the highlands in Nepal, the middle ground in India, and the flat deltaic terrain in Bangladesh In Nepal, the flood problem is mainly restricted to the Terai region along the ... Change (+) No Change No Change No Change Change (-) No Change No Change No Change Change (-) No Change Change (+) No Change Change (+) No Change No Change Change (-) ARE FLOODS GETTING WORSE? Table ... (-) No Change Change (+) No Change No Change No Change Change (+) No Change Kruskal-Wallis Mann-Whitney Change (-) Change (+) Change (+) No Change Change (-) No Change Change (+) No Change Change...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 4 docx
... “Adapting to Climate Change: A Case Study on Riverine Flood Risks in the Netherlands” In R S J Tol and A A Olsthoorn (eds.), Floods, Flood Management and Climate Change in the Netherlands, Institute ... of adaptation against the increased risk of climate- induced flooding in the Rhine Delta; and their work can support an instructive application of the vulnerability model to examine this issue Six ... is the standard deviation and is the mean The mean and standard deviation of the flood peak as well as the parameters of the EV1 distribution were determined using 100-year time series of climate...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 5 pdf
... and depth in Bangladesh 5.5.3 THE MEGHNA BASIN Most of the GCMs indicate high precipitation changes in the Meghna basin under the climate change scenarios (Table 5.4) Using these scenarios, changes ... by the increases in the peak discharge of the Meghna River 5.6.2 CHANGES IN THE INUNDATION CATEGORIES Under the climate change scenarios, four selected GCMs indicate substantial changes in the ... prolonged inundation (
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 6 ppt
... 152 GLACIER LAKE OUTBURST FLOODS AND VULNERABILITY Damen, M.: Study on the Potential Outburst Flooding of Tsho Rolpa Glacier Lake, Rolwaling Valley, East Nepal, The Netherlands: Netherlands -Nepal ... Kathmandu, Nepal: WECS/JIC, 1992 Yamada, T.: Glacier Lakes and their Outburst Floods in the Nepal Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal: WECS, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1993 Yamada, T.: Glacier Lake and Its Outburst ... S R and Joshi, S P.: Inventory of Glaciers, Glacier Lakes and Glacier Lake Outburst Floods, Monitoring and Early Warning Systems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, ICIMOD/UNEP, Kathmandu, Nepal, ...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 7 docx
... and high nutrients The inland lakes such as the lakes in Rajasthan have small catchment drainage basins with minor rivers draining into them These lakes are generally shallow and are sensitive ... facilitate the exchange of information on the state-of -the- art thinking about climate change and impacts on water resources The timely flows of information among the climate change scientists and the ... blowing in from the Southern Hemisphere get deflected to the right as they enter the Northern Hemisphere and blow into the subcontinent from the West Coast bringing with it moisture from the...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 9 docx
... foreshore depths and corresponding wave depths In the dry season: • • • • • Changes in the balance of GW recharge and demand on aquifers due to changes in climate parameters Increase in demand on surface ... average for the country are shown in the Figures 9.4 and 9.5 (NWMP, 2000) In general, the combination of increased rainfall and unchanged evapo-transpiration in the monsoon results in increased ... changes would affect the timing and rate of snowmelt in the upper Himalayan reaches, which would alter the flow regime in the rivers that rise in the Himalayas Lower dry season rainfall and increased...
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Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 11 (end) pdf
... for simulating floods with the aid of MIKE 11-GIS model, and disseminating the warnings in electronic and print media and to several government departments The forecasting and warning information ... Northern, Northeastern and Southeast parts of Bangladesh are vulnerable to flash floods They usually occur due to a heavy rainfall in the neighboring hills and mountains in India as well as in Bangladesh ... C.: Climate Variability, Climate Change and Vulnerability: Moving Forward by Looking Back In: J C Ribot, A R Magalhães, and S S Panagides (eds.), Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability...
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Climate Change and Variability Part 2 ppt
... variability is therefore a knotty problem, yet the knowing of these cycles is crucial to better understand and explain the climate (with interests for weather forecasting and climate change projections) ... of the ITCZ The marine rainfall band is also closely connected to the rainfall zones over the two neighboring continents During MAM (Fig 1c), the most intense rainfall zone is located over the ... corresponding to c1 , the notable exceptions being the NP, PNA and global-SST ENSO indices The cycle c2 is observed in the AO (CPC), NP, PDO, PNA and SOI* indices, as well as the indices related to the...
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Climate Change and Variability Part 3 ppt
... vs wind energy input to the surface currents; (c) the ratio of GPE increase to near-inertial energy from the wind vs PDI; and (d) the ratio of GPE increase to energy input from the wind input ... direct impact on the open ocean in the tropical Atlantic, and its impact is generally confined in the western basin and over the northeastern South America Therefore, during JJA, the two local SST ... during MAM based on both the ITCZ strength and the basin-mean rainfall The latitudes of the marine ITCZ however not vary much from- 60 Climate Change and Variability year-to-year during JJA, in...
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