Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazards in the Alps: Can current water governance cope with future challenges? Examples from the European “ACQWA” project

Beniston, Martin; Stoffel, Markus; Hill, Margot

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.12.009

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“…The minimum rainfall duration for hazards increasing abruptly is 15 hrs. In addition to Jhongpu village, the published threshold rainfall is higher than herein, which DI t = 4.24T -52.8 (r 2 = 0.98) (2) could lead to failure to provide early warning of potential hazard occurrences for residents.…”

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“…It cut water supplies to 769,159 households, electric power to 1,595,419 households, and communications to 22,221 households [4]. Water resources facilities and levees were damaged in 824 places, roads were blocked in 250 locations, 196 bridges were damaged, and the total flooded area reached 765 km 2 [4]. The economic losses of agricultural and fisheries industries were estimated at NT$ 192 billion [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Rainfall Thresholds for Homeland Security in Mountainous Townships of Taiwan during Typhoon Morakot

Chen¹,

Chiang²

2015

IJET

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Rainfall Thresholds for Homeland Security in Mountainous Townships of Taiwan during Typhoon Morakot

Chen¹,

Chiang²

2015

IJET

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“…Climate change is leading to a tendency for more extreme events (droughts and floods), increased glacier reduction, and altering snow melt and fall conditions, which are driving significant modifications to the varying hydrological regimes across the Rhône basin (Beniston et al 2011;Chauveau et al 2013). Not only are the climatic and hydrological conditions shifting, but crucial developments in the policy environment are altering the preference of different water uses, notably flood policy, environmental protection policies and energy policies.…”

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Interdisciplinary approaches for analysing governance challenges across the Rhône basin

Bréthaut

Clarvis

2014

Reg Environ Change

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The Rhône basin is one of Europe's major rivers. It stretches from its source in the Swiss Alps through to the Lake Geneva and then down through France to its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, where its delta constitutes the Camargue Region. It crosses three different 'cantonal' jurisdictions in Switzerland alone, while its course through Lake Geneva itself demarcates the border between France and Switzerland. This presents a valuable opportunity to analyse the multitude of challenges that face the management of a river flowing through such a variety of different hydrological contexts and institutional settings (Swiss, French and European). For the first time, this special issue collates interdisciplinary insights into the challenges faced by the governance systems across the entire Rhône basin. Papers present insights into barriers and opportunities for effectively responding to the many political, economic and climatological challenges facing the managers of the River Rhône overthe coming decades.

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“…Beniston 2003), reductions in average summer precipitation and consequent episodes of summer drought may be simultaneously accompanied by a sharp increase in short but potentially-devastating heavy precipitation events (Casty et al 2005;Beniston et al 2011), such as flash floods, more frequent overflow of storm drainage facilities, greater soil erosion and higher risk of landslides in unstable areas (Bollschweiler, Stoffel 2010). Where the climate change is expressed by extreme events, the erosion will be stronger, and the extent of Leptosols might be larger.…”

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Climate change impacts on the Alpine ecosystem: an overview with focus on the soil

Chersich¹,

Rejšek²,

Vranová³

et al. 2015

J. For. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:The Alpine ecosystem is very sensitive to climatic changes, which have an influence on glaciers, snow, vegetation and soils. The aim of this review is to illustrate the effects of global change on the Alpine soil ecosystem, which is an optimal marker to record them. The manuscript enhances our understanding of the global change effect on the Alpine environment: on morphology, on ice, on vegetation and points out how the cycles of soil nutrients equilibrium have been changed with a direct effect on soils that support plant species. The changes in cryosphere, glacier reduction and periglacial environment as glaciers retreat, decrease in the snow cover extent and earlier snowmelt, determine an effect on soils (on the structure, organic matter and humus forms, soil processes and soil types) from the top of the Alpine horizon to the bottom. The processes induced by climate change (such as erosion and tree line shifting) have a direct effect on water balance that can be observed on soil profile characters with an effect on upward migration, change in phenology, extensive losses of species. The equilibrium of the biogeochemical cycles has been changed and this has a direct effect on soils that support plant species.

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Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazards in the Alps: Can current water governance cope with future challenges? Examples from the European “ACQWA” project

Cited by 127 publications

References 36 publications

Rainfall Thresholds for Homeland Security in Mountainous Townships of Taiwan during Typhoon Morakot

Rainfall Thresholds for Homeland Security in Mountainous Townships of Taiwan during Typhoon Morakot

Interdisciplinary approaches for analysing governance challenges across the Rhône basin

Climate change impacts on the Alpine ecosystem: an overview with focus on the soil

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