- Title
- Climate change and water management
- Creator
- Kelly, Tim; Gehling, Jim; Westell, Kelly; Ingleton, Greg; Gell, Peter
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/64581
- Identifier
- vital:5177
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781862548619
- Abstract
- To understand the risks of climate change and variability on Adelaide's water supply system, it is useful to consider the changes that have occured throughout the earth's history, and changes due to natural climate variability that occur across decades and centuries. In this we first take a look at climate change in earth's history that has helped shape the natural systems of the Murray-Darling (MDB) and the Mount Lofty Ranges (MLR), which provides Adelaide with its drinking water. We consider the forces that drive natural climate variability. In the second part, we introduce the new climate change force of increasing greenhouse gases, caused by human civilisations. The chapter explores future global scenarios of human behaviour and examines SA Water's role in managing its greenhouse gas emissions as it adapts to climate change, seeks to reduce its emissions, and supports necessary research. "From introduction"
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Relation
- Adelaide: Water of a city p. 267-287
- Rights
- Copyright Wakefield Press
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Climate change; Water
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