Projeto ADAPTA
Adaptive Management of Drought Risk as a Strategy for Reduction of Climate Change Impacts.
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq – Brazil).
www.adapta.ufc.br/#
Partners: Universidade Federal do Ceará (Lead); Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Universidade de Colonia/Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Applied Sciences (ITT); Columbia University; UNILAB; Companhia de Gestão dos Recursos Hídricos(COGERH); Agência da Bacia Hidrográfica do rio Paraíba do Sul (AGEVAP); EMBRAPA Agroindústria Tropical
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq – Brazil).
www.adapta.ufc.br/#
Partners: Universidade Federal do Ceará (Lead); Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Universidade de Colonia/Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Applied Sciences (ITT); Columbia University; UNILAB; Companhia de Gestão dos Recursos Hídricos(COGERH); Agência da Bacia Hidrográfica do rio Paraíba do Sul (AGEVAP); EMBRAPA Agroindústria Tropical
This interdisciplinary project focuses in two large watersheds in Brazil – the Jaguaribe Valley in Ceará, and the Paraíba Valley in São Paulo. The objectives are to analyze current and future drought risk for the diverse stakeholders and to propose adaptive management guidelines to reduce vulnerability to climate change and diminishing water availability. The project is led by researchers at the Federal University of Ceará in collaboration with hydrologists, climatologists, agronomists, and demographers from Brazilian, US, and German Universities. Our contributions include analyses that assess current conditions and the development of future scenarios related to: a) differential vulnerabilities among populations and economic sectors; b) organizational components of watershed management and the diverse water governance institutions; c) how water ethics are implicated in defining water problems and in management decisions.
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