Browsing PAUWES by Subject "Climate Change"
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Assessing Climate Change and Variability Impacts on Water Resources and Smallholder Agriculture in the Offin Sub-Basin of Ghana
(PAUWES, 2019-10)Climate change and variability is becoming an issue of global and regional concern as its impacts are increasingly taking hold of diverse sectors of the world. Temperatures increasing and rainfall becoming highly variable ... -
Assessing the impacts of Climate Change in Senegal: A Case Study of Casamance Region
(PAUWES, 2020-12)Different theories emphasize the role climate change plays in the actual abnormal occurrence of climate related natural disasters. Climate change continues to pose a threat to the sustainability of natural resources. ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Streamflow in Malaba River Catchment, Uganda
(2018)Malaba River in Uganda a focal area to the Lake Kyoga basin is prone to climate change because of its heavy reliance on rainfall as its major flow contributor. The impacts of climate change on streamflow in Malaba River ... -
Assessment of Climate Change and Its Impact on Water Resources: Case of Tafna Basin–North West of Algeria
(2018)Water resources could become scarcer in future decades worldwide. This will significantly affect semi-arid to arid climatic regions. The rapid evolution population, industrial development, and the expansion of agriculture ... -
Assessment Of Climate Change Impact On Hydrology Of Lower Awash Sub Basin, Ethiopia
(2017)This thesis research focusing on assessing the impact of climate change on hydrology over Lower Awash Sub Basin using downscaled climate projection from GCM product outputs of HadCM3. The Statistical Down Scaling Model ... -
An Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Water Related Ecosystem Services (WRES) including Hydropower Potential in the Dano Catchment (Volta Basin)
(PAUWES, 2019-10)This study assesses the impact of future climate change on water related ecosystem services (WRES) including hydropower potential in the Dano catchment (Volta basin). The Catchment covers an area of 196 Km² and is located ... -
An Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Hydropower Potential in West Africa Case study :Bamboi catchment (Black Volta)
(PAUWES, 2019-10)Due to its low adaptive capacity, West Africa is one of the regions which will be severely affected by climate change. This study is carried out in the main framework of the CIREG project, which is centered towards ... -
Assessment Of The Role Of Microfinance Institutions In Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Perception And Their Adaptation Capacities To Climate Change In Loumbila In Burkina Faso
(2017)Burkina Faso, a low income and landlocked country located in West Africa in the Sahel with limited natural resources,will face challenging changes in temperature, rainfall,storms and extreme weather events which will ... -
Barriers to and Determinants of the Choice of Crop Management Strategies to Combat Climate Change in Dejen District, Nile Basin of Ethiopia
(2018)Climate change without adaptation is projected to impact strongly the livelihoods of the rural communities. Adaptation to climate change is crucial for developing country like Ethiopia due to high population and dependency ... -
Climate and Land-cover Change in Dryland-Catchments, and their Effect on Spate-hydrology of Farming Community in Semi-arid Lowlands of Raya-Valley, Northern Ethiopia
(2018)Spate-irrigation, a system foreseen as a potential means of improving agricultural production in rainfall deficit lowlands, is profoundly threatened by climate and land-cover change upstream. Yet, the actual implications ... -
Combating Climate Change and Land Degradation in the West African Sahel: A Multi-Country Study of Mali, Niger and Senegal
(2018)The West African Sahel is a vast ecological zone separating the Sahara desert to the north and Sudanian savannah to the south; traversing Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, northern Nigeria and Chad. With a population ... -
Community Acceptability of Renewable Energy in Africa: Implications for Climate Change Action in Sekoukou, Niger
(PAUWES, 2019-10)Niger possesses a vast amount of renewable energy potential but still battles with numerous challenges in its energy sector with the increasing effects of climate change, also escalating the socio-economic predicaments ... -
Evaluating Rural Farmers Knowledge, Perception, and Adaptation Strategies on Climate Change in Ghana: A case study of the Wa West District, Ghana
(IISTE, 2018)Climate change is a phenomenon that has received significant international attention over the past years due to its profound negative effects on community livelihood especially in developing countries like Ghana where ... -
Evaluating the Potential Impact of Climate Change on the Hydrology of Ribb Catchment, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
(2019-09-05)Varies scientific findings indicate there is climate change which affects a given hydrology and, hence, water availability. To quantify its impact on the specific catchment scale since spatial and temporal variability of ... -
Evaluating Water Security in a Challenging Environment: Case Study of Oti Nord Sub Basin in Togo
(2018)Water shortage across the globe has increased due to climate change among other factors with highly projected impacts expected at river basin level. Anticipating these impacts will help act on time to avoid future water ... -
Examining Water Security in the Challenging Environment in Togo, West Africa
(MDPI, 2019-01-29)Water shortages across the globe have increased due to climate change among other factors with negative impacts expected at the river basin level. Anticipating these impacts will help experts act in a timely manner to avoid ... -
Exploring Africa's Potentials of Biopower for Low Carbon Development
(SSRN, 2018)Clean and Improved energy access is the topmost priority in the African continent and the globe at large due to persistent energy demand rise and the challenge of climate change. The persistent increase in the energy demand ... -
Hydrologic Response to Climate Change in the Densu River Basin in Ghana
(Elsevier, 2020-08)Climate change continues to pose a threat to the sustainability of water resources. Global warming can have several effects on the water resources and water demands in the Densu River Basin especially household water use ... -
Hydrological Modeling and Climate Change Impacts on River Kuja Basin Using HEC-HMS and HEC-GeoHMS Models
(2018)Climate change is real and the effects directly influence the general hydrology of a region. The assessment of these effects still remains an uncertainty owing to the fact that modeling of hydrological reactions is a factor ... -
Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater Resources of the Atankwidi Basin in Ghana, West Africa
(2018)The Atankwidi basin is a sub-basin of the Volta River basin, which is located in West Africa. It is a transboundary basin shared by Ghana and Burkina Faso and has a drainage area of about 286 km2. The basin dwellers depend ...