| Titre | Upland watershed management and global change: Canada's Rocky Mountains and western plains |
| Auteur | Sauchyn, D; Demuth, M; Pietroniro, A |
| Source | Managing water resources in a time of global change: mountains, valleys and flood plains; par Garrido, A (éd.); Dinar, A (éd.); 2009 p. 32-49 |
| Année | 2009 |
| Séries alt. | Secteur des sciences de la Terre, Contribution externe 20080652 |
| Séries alt. | Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy |
| Éditeur | Routledge |a London, UK/New York, USA (London, UK/New York, USA) |
| Document | livre |
| Lang. | anglais |
| Media | papier |
| Province | Alberta; Colombie-Britannique; Saskatchewan |
| SNRC | 62E; 62L; 62M; 63D; 63E; 63L; 63M; 64D; 64E; 64L; 64M; 72; 73; 74; 82; 83; 84; 93I; 93P; 94A; 94H; 94I; 94P |
| Lat/Long OENS | -122.0000 -102.0000 60.0000 49.0000 |
| Sujets | gestion des ressources; eaux de surface; utilisation de l'eau; bassins versants; glaciers; glaciologie; budget hydrologique; milieu hydrologique; climat; eaux de ruissellement; neige; écoulement des cours
d'eau; regimes d'écoulement; précipitation; modèles; Approvisionnement en eau; Sécheresse; hydrogéologie |
| Illustrations | sketch maps; graphs; tables; time series |
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| Programme | CRSNG Conseil de recherches en sciences
naturelles et en génie du Canada |
| Programme | Manitoba Hydro, Programme de financement |
| Programme | Alberta Environment, Funding Program |
| Programme | Environnement Canada, Programme de
financement |
| Programme | Impacts des changements climatiques et adaptation dans le secteur des ressources naturelles et d'autres secteurs clés de l'économie, Géosciences de changements climatiques |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
Myths of abundant and stationary water resources have influenced water policy and management in western Canada. Data presented in this chapter demonstrate that
water use, policy and management were established during a period of fairly stable and reliable water supplies as compared to preceding and projected hydrological regimes. These data include tree-ring and historical evidence of prolonged drought,
recent trends (glacier wastage, declining snowmelt runoff and summer flows), and global circulation models (GCM)-based scenarios of precipitation and runoff. We consider how water policy and management might be adjusted to compensate for a long-term
view of the surface hydrology that includes more prolonged drought and lower average flows than observed and experienced in the twentieth century. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 226364 |
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