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" Decreased water availability for populations in many waterscarce regions, particularly in the sub-tropics • An increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne... "
Gender, Development, and Climate Change - Page 20
edited by - 2002 - 112 pages
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The Far East and Australasia 2003

Europa Publications - 2002 - 1724 pages
...include a general reduction in crop yields in most tropical, sub-tropical and mid-latitude regions, decreased water availability for populations in many...increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne and water-borne diseases and to heat-stress mortality, a widespread increase in the risk of flooding...
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State of the World 2002: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a ...

Christopher Flavin - 2002 - 292 pages
...temperature increases; • decreased water availability for populations in many water-scarce regions, notably in the subtropics; • an increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne and water-borne diseases (such as malaria and cholera) and an increase in heat stress mortality; and...
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Up in Smoke?: Threats From, and Responses To, the Impact of Global Warming ...

2004 - 40 pages
...by droughts occurring with B Mno-type events. 40 It also predicts that climate change will lead to "decreased water availability for populations in many water-scarce regions, particularly in the sub-tropic".^ Not only will water become scarcer, but the quality of available water will deteriorate....
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - 2004 - 102 pages
...reductions in most tropical and subtropical regions. • changes in water availability, especially losses in the sub-tropics. • an increase in the number of people exposed to vector born diseases like malaria and water borne diseases like cholera. • increased losses of lives,...
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Climate Change Damage And International Law: Prevention Duties And State ...

Roda Verheyen - 2005 - 419 pages
...most regions in mid-latitudes for increases in annual-average temperature of more than a few °C; - Decreased water availability for populations in many...increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne (eg malaria) and water-borne (eg cholera) diseases and an increase in heat stress mortality; - A widespread...
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Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues ...

Susette Biber-Klemm, Thomas Cottier - 2006 - 400 pages
...and sub-tropical regions, assuming that the envisaged increases in temperature take place; and (ii) decreased water availability for populations in many...water-scarce regions, particularly in the sub-tropics and tropics. Of benefit would be the predicted increase in crop yields in some regions at mid-latitude...
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Revisiting EU Policy Options for Tackling Climate Change: A Social Cost ...

Christian Egenhofer, J. C. Jansen, S. J. Bakker, Johanna Jussila Hammes - 2006 - 164 pages
...most regions in mid-latitudes for increases in annualaverage temperature of more than a few °C • Decreased water availability for populations in many...increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne (eg, malaria) and water-borne diseases (eg, cholera), and an increase in heat stress mortality •...
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Engineering, Poverty, and the Earth

George D. Catalano - 2007 - 85 pages
...mid-latitudes for increases in annual-average temperature of more than a few degrees centigrade. • Decreased water availability for populations in many...increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne (eg, malaria) and waterborne diseases (eg, cholera), and an increase in heat stress mortality. •...
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Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith ...

Dan Agin - 2007 - 340 pages
...mid-latitudes for increases in annual average temperature of more than a few degrees centigrade. • Decreased water availability for populations in many...increase in the number of people exposed to vector-borne (eg, malaria) and water-borne diseases (eg, cholera), and an increase in heat-stress mortality. •...
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