期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 11, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024006
关键词
water scarcity; risk assessment; climate change; socioeconomic developments; global hydrological modeling; water resources; probabilistic methods
资金
- EU [308438, 603608]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VICI [453-14-006]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [JSPS-2014-878]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [863-11-011]
Changing hydro-climatic and socioeconomic conditions increasingly put pressure on fresh water resources and are expected to aggravate water scarcity conditions towards the future. Despite numerous calls for risk-based water scarcity assessments, a global-scale framework that includes UNISDR's definition of risk does not yet exist. This study provides a first step towards such a risk-based assessment, applying a Gamma distribution to estimate water scarcity conditions at the global scale under historic and future conditions, using multiple climate change and population growth scenarios. Our study highlights that water scarcity risk, expressed in terms of expected annual exposed population, increases given all future scenarios, up to >56.2% of the global population in 2080. Looking at the drivers of risk, we find that population growth outweigh the impacts of climate change at global and regional scales. Using a risk-based method to assess water scarcity, we show the results to be less sensitive than traditional water scarcity assessments to the use of fixed threshold to represent different levels of water scarcity. This becomes especially important when moving from global to local scales, whereby deviations increase up to 50% of estimated risk levels.
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