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Healthy Rivers Build Greater Resilience to Climate Change

2013-11-08 18:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Climate change is bringing more extreme floods and droughts, and large dams can compound the impacts of both. Dam failures, levees that cut off rivers from their floodplains and hydropower projects that lay idle in times of drought reduce the ability of societies to cope with the impacts of a changing climate. The new report, Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate Resilience, by International Rivers explains how rivers strengthen climate resilience, how large dams increase our vulnerability...

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