Enhancing the climate resilience of Africa's infrastructure

Subtitle:

The power and water sectors

Place:

Washington, D.C.

Publisher:

World Bank

Phys descriptions:

xvii, 219p.: ill.(some col.), tables, charts

Date published:

2015

Record type:

Book/Monograph

Corporate Author:

World Bank

Responsibility:

Agence franaise de dveloppement, jt. author

United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa, jt. author

Editor:

Cervigni, Raffaello|Neumann, James E.|Liden, Rikard|Strzepek, Kenneth M.

Subject:

WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

POWER RESOURCES

AFRICA

ISBN:

978-1-4648-0466-3

Call No:

628.1(6) WOR

Abstract:

Evaluates - using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-art climate scenarios - the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans in Africa's main rivers basins, and outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process.

Language:

English

Series:

Africa development forum

CITATION: World Bank. Enhancing the climate resilience of Africa's infrastructure edited by Cervigni, Raffaello|Neumann, James E.|Liden, Rikard|Strzepek, Kenneth M. . Washington, D.C. : World Bank , 2015. - Available at: https://library.au.int/enhancing-climate-resilience-africas-infrastructure