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Water Resources Management: 14 new items

1. Uncertain Future_Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144642?intcmp=700
Climate change is riding high on both domestic and international political agendas as countries face up to the huge environmental challenges the world now faces. Whilst this attention is welcome, less energy is being focused on the inevitable impact climate change …
Contributed by Sidy Sissoko on 11 April, 2008

2. Climate change will erode foundations of health
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144922?intcmp=700
WHO Director-General warns vulnerable populations at greatest risk of projected impacts-
7 APRIL 2008 | GENEVA — Scientists tell us that the evidence the Earth is warming is “unequivocal.” Increases in global average air and sea temperature, ice melting and rising …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

3. Climate Change and Human Health
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144931?intcmp=700
Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to public health, and changes the way we must look at protecting vulnerable populations.

The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirmed that there is overwhelming evidence …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

4. Looking to the future: challenges for scientists studying climate change and health
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144940?intcmp=700
Research on climate change and health spans basic studies of causal relationships, risk assessment, evaluation of population vulnerability and adaptive capacity, and the evaluation of intervention policies
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

5. Health impacts of climate extremes
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144949?intcmp=700
Climatic factors are an important determinant of various vector-borne diseases, many enteric illnesses and certain water-related diseases. Relationships between year-to-year variations in climate and infectious diseases are most evident where climate variations …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

6. International consensus on the science of climate and health: the IPCC Third Assessment Report
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144959?intcmp=700
Through recent research, our understanding of climate-health relationships has increased rapidly, largely due to the stimulus of the IPCC and other policy-related reviews at regional and national levels.In the early 1990s there was little awareness of the health …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

7. Climate change and infectious diseases
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144969?intcmp=700
Today, worldwide, there is an apparent increase in many infectious diseases, including some newly-circulating ones (HIV/AIDS, hantavirus, hepatitis C, SARS, etc.). This reflects the combined impacts of rapid demographic, environmental, social, technological and …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

8. How much disease would climate change cause?
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144977?intcmp=700
To inform policies, an estimation of the approximate magnitude of the health impacts of climate change is needed. This will indicate which particular impacts are likely to be greatest and in which regions, and how much of the climate-attributable disease burden …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

9. Stratospheric ozone depletion, ultraviolet radiation and health
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1144985?intcmp=700
Strictly, stratospheric ozone depletion is not part of global climate change, which occurs in the troposphere. There are, however, several recently described interactions between ozone depletion and greenhouse gas-induced warming.

Scientists 100 years ago …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 14 April, 2008

10. Pieter van Midwoud speaks on climate change and what we can do to limit its effects
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1145150?intcmp=700
Pieter van Midwoud is the Executive Secretary of CarbonFix and will be a participant in The first International Scientific and Business Congress on Climate change. The congress will be held in City Hall, Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the 22.-23. April 2008. Lord …
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 14 April, 2008

11. Malaysia rejects coal project in Borneo rainforest
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1145476?intcmp=700

From mongabay.com -
April 14, 2008 -

Malaysia has rejected a $408 million coal-fired power plant near a protected rainforest area in Sabah, on the island of Borneo.

The state government has directed Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd and Tenaga Nasional …
Contributed by Giulia D’Amico on 15 April, 2008

12. State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
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The coming century of climate change, and how to manage and survive it.
Forthcoming in January 2009 from the Worldwatch Institute.

It’s New Year’s Day, 2101. Somehow, humanity survived the worst of global warmingthe higher temperatures and sea levels and …
Contributed by Giulia D’Amico on 15 April, 2008

13. Climate Change Futures - Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1145527?intcmp=700
Climate is the context for life on earth. Global climate
change and the ripples of that change will affect every
aspect of life, from municipal budgets for snowplowing
to the spread of disease. Climate is already changing,
and quite rapidly. With rare unanimity …
Contributed by Patrizia Mazzoni on 15 April, 2008

14. World Mayors Propose Urban Water Declaration
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1145616?intcmp=700
Authorities from nearly 40 cities met last week during World Water Day to draft the declaration, known as the Istanbul Urban Water Consensus. The statement recognizes the likely damaging effects of climate change on urban water resources and calls on governments …
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 16 April, 2008

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