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Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa [Abstract only].

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Title Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa [Abstract only].
 
Creator Xenarios, Stefanos
McCartney, Matthew P.
 
Description In University of Leuven. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Book of abstracts - International Congress: Water 2011, Integrated Water Resources Management in Tropical and Subtropical Drylands, Mekelle, Ethiopia,19-26 September 2011. Heverlee, Belgium: University of Leuven. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
The development of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a major aid for agricultural regions with scarce water and anticipated climate change impacts. The selection of storage options is often conducted through monetary assessment of direct costs and benefits. Such an approach, although prompt and straightforward, often leads to reductionism in the assessment process and loss 01 valuable information. This in turn can result in less than optimal decision-making. Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with threshold systems and weighting values. Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach proposed avoids some crucial weaknesses 01 cost-benefit related analyses. The methodology has been evaluated to six case studies in Ethiopia and Ghana through the introduction 01 socioeconomic and environmental related indicators.
 
Date 2014-06-13T11:42:47Z
2014-06-13T11:42:47Z
2011
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier Xenarios, Stefanos; McCartney, Matthew. 2011. Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa [Abstract only]. In University of Leuven. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Book of abstracts - International Congress: Water 2011, Integrated Water Resources Management in Tropical and Subtropical Drylands, Mekelle, Ethiopia, 19-26 September 2011. Heverlee, Belgium: University of Leuven. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. pp.77.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38738
 
Language en