Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change

Dr. Cecilia Tortajada is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. The main focus of her work at present is on the future of the world´s water, especially in terms of water, food, energy and environmental securities through coordinated policies.  She has been an advisor to major international institutions like FAO, UNDP, JICA, ADB, OECD, IDRC and GIZ, and has worked in countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe on water and natural resources and environment-related policies. She is member of the OECD Initiative in Water Governance.   She is a past President of the International Water Resources Association (2007-2009) and an honorary member of the IWRA. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Water Resources Development and Editor of book series on Water Resources Development and Management of Springer. She is also editor of Springer Briefs on Case Studies on Sustainable Development and on Water Science and Technology; and member of series Advisory Board of Springer Briefs in Earth Sciences, Geography & Earth System Sciences. She is the author and editor of more than 30 books by major international publishers. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish languages.

Introduction.- The Murray-Darling Basin: climate change, infrastructure and water.- Climate change adaptation, water infrastructure development, and responsive governance in the Himalayas: The case study of Nepal’s Koshi River basin.- Building Pakistan´s resilience to natural disasters in the Indus River Basin.- Yellow River: Re-operation of Infrastructure system to increase Resilience to Climate Variability and Changes.- Seyhan Dam, Turkey.- Contributions of Aswan High Dam in Alleviating the Impacts of Climate Fluctuations and Change.- Greater security with less water: Sterkfontein Dam’s contribution to systemic resilience.- The Durance-Verdon river basin in France: the role of infrastructures and governance for adaptation to climate change.- Enhancing governance of climate resilience in the Arid Americas: A multi-country comparative assessment of the role of reservoirs in adaptive management.- Mitigation measures for high-risk dams, considering changes in their climate and basinin Mexico.- Sobradinho Reservoir.