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T1 Facing the Facts: Assessing the Vulnerability of Africa's Water Resources to Environmental Change
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
A1 Pan African START Secretariat, 
K1 environmental change
K1 environmental assessment
K1 water conservation
K1 water endangering
K1 water protection
K1 water resource
K1 water management
K1 water resources conservation
K1 water quality
PB United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Pan African START Secretariat
YR 2005
FD 2005
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7990
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7990
NO Africa's high dependence on natural resources makes its people vulnerable to environmental change. Acknowledging this, UNEP and START initiated a study in Feb. 2003 - (Vulnerability of Water Resources to Environmental Change in Afica). In the publication 4 regional groups of researchers address the vulnerability issue in Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Africa by means of selected river/lake/groundwater,basins according to natural (physuigraphic) anthropogenic (socio-economic) and management criteria. The basin was selected as a key unit for assessment because it balances resource protection and utilisation and it considers all components of the hydrological cycle. Finally, the assessments undertaken clearly show that water resounces in Africa are at risk, now and even more in the future.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 18, 2026