Impact of Climate Change on Crops, Irrigation and Hydropower in the Zambezi River Basin

Charles Fant, Yohannes Gebretsadik and Kenneth Strzepek

No wp-2013-039, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The past reliance on historical observed weather patterns for future investment in basic infrastructure planning (e.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years. For this reason, efforts to study the impacts of a changing future climate based on climate projections from global circulation models has been popular, where the coupled model intercomparison project models, used in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Assessment Reports, are typically used.

Keywords: Agriculture; Climate change; Public investments; Renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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