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Climate Change in Sustainable Water Resources Management

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Climate change has directly and indirectly impacted natural and human systems across the globe in recent decades.

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  1. Department of Irrigation and Reclamation Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, 3158777871, Karaj, Iran

    Sahar Baghban & Omid Bozorg-Haddad

  2. Division of Water Resources Engineering and Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Ronny Berndtsson

  3. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado-Boulder and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA

    Mike Hobbins

  4. Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Nadhir Al-Ansari

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Baghban, S., Bozorg-Haddad, O., Berndtsson, R., Hobbins, M., Al-Ansari, N. (2022). Mitigation and Adaptation Measures. In: Bozorg-Haddad, O. (eds) Climate Change in Sustainable Water Resources Management. Springer Water. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1898-8_9

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