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Water Resources Management and Adaptation to Climate Change

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Water Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management ((WRDM))

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Initiatives to solve world water issues and climate change have been individually developed and implemented without adequate synergy among them. The relevance of adapting to climate change has increased in addition to the mitigation to climate change. Integrated water resources management (IWRM) is expected to work well as an adaptation to climate change, preferably integrated with disaster risk management (DRM), proper land management, and poverty alleviation, to accomplish sustainable development. A synthesized review on water and climate is provided based on the 5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (23226012) of JSPS, SOUSEI Programme of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), and the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-10) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

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  1. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8505, Japan

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Oki, T. (2016). Water Resources Management and Adaptation to Climate Change. In: Biswas, A., Tortajada, C. (eds) Water Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Water Resources Development and Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-976-9_3

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