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Impacts of global environmental changes on water: challenges for sustainable development
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Farinosi, Fabio |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Historically hydropower has been an important driver of economic and social development by providing both energy and water management services that generate multiplier effects (Kumar et al. 2009; van Vliet et al. 2012). By offering low-carbon energy and climate-adaptation benefits, hydropower will play an increasingly important role also in the future in the context of greenhouse gas mitigation. In the context of climate change adaptation, reservoirs could be used for irrigation and flood risk management. Yet, future climatic conditions are likely to affect the potential of this source of energy with uncertain consequences for its adaptive and mitigation capacity. Here we analyze the sensitivity of storage hydropower with reservoirs of different size and assess the magnitude and uncertainty of its vulnerability under future climate at global scale. Results indicate that changes in seasonal runoff patterns as well as variations in frequency and intensity of wet and dry conditions are expected to affect hydropower. Significant heterogeneity across unit size is found and the response varies with the ability of the hydropower facilities to cope with interand intra-annual variability by using their storage capacity. Globally, climate change impacts on hydropower resulting from our estimates appear equivocal and substantial variations existing even within countries. Yet, clear patterns can be identified for particular hydropower plants size in certain regions such as Southern Europe, North America, and Asia. 3 This Chapter is based on: Farinosi, F., De Cian, E., Sue Wing, I. (in preparation). “Vulnerability of Global Hydropower to Future Climate Change” |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://dspace.unive.it/bitstream/handle/10579/8344/818050-1175871.pdf?sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
