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Climatic variability and change, including scenarios of global warming, may affect hydrological systems and actions taken to manage them. This section covers the first-order hydrologic effects, while water resource management issues are considered by Arnell elsewhere in this volume.
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Cohen, S.J. (1995). Potential Changes to Hydrological Systems. In: Oliver, H.R., Oliver, S.A. (eds) The Role of Water and the Hydrological Cycle in Global Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79830-6_15
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