Mapping the Resilience of International River Basins to Future Climate Change-Induced Water Variability, Volume 2. Appendices
The study presented in this report aims to increase our understanding of the global distribution of treaty and River Basin Organization (RBO) mechanisms that may confer resilience to variability in the hydrological regime and how that distribution aligns with current and anticipated regimes. Some basins will experience greater changes in hydrologic variability regimes than others, and we specifically seek to identify country-basin combinations with greater exposure to variability and few or no treaty/RBO provisions to manage the transboundary impacts of that variability. To do this, we assessed all available international water treaties for specific treaty mechanisms, mapped the spatial distribution of these mechanisms and RBOs, and compared it to both the current variability regime and projections of future variability regimes driven by climate change. We then identified specific basins that may merit further study in light of their potential risk of future hydropolitical stress. By identifying these areas at the global scale, we can contribute to efforts aimed at anticipating future challenges in transboundary water management and suggesting specific measures to adapt existing or new water agreements to the effects of climate change.
| Summary: | The study presented in this report aims
to increase our understanding of the global distribution of
treaty and River Basin Organization (RBO) mechanisms that
may confer resilience to variability in the hydrological
regime and how that distribution aligns with current and
anticipated regimes. Some basins will experience greater
changes in hydrologic variability regimes than others, and
we specifically seek to identify country-basin combinations
with greater exposure to variability and few or no
treaty/RBO provisions to manage the transboundary impacts of
that variability. To do this, we assessed all available
international water treaties for specific treaty mechanisms,
mapped the spatial distribution of these mechanisms and
RBOs, and compared it to both the current variability regime
and projections of future variability regimes driven by
climate change. We then identified specific basins that may
merit further study in light of their potential risk of
future hydropolitical stress. By identifying these areas at
the global scale, we can contribute to efforts aimed at
anticipating future challenges in transboundary water
management and suggesting specific measures to adapt
existing or new water agreements to the effects of climate change. |
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