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Water scarcity and drought : setting the stage

Abstract

Apresentação efectuada no "Douro River Basin UNESCO IHP-HELP – International HELP Symposium on River Basin Level Responses to Water Scarcity and Drought under Uncertain Climate Futures”, em Mirandela, Portugal, 2010Douro River Basin is under pressure because of various external drivers, such as climate change. Its water resources is much stressed, particularly in the Tras-os-Montes, near Spain and the Spanish part of the DRB. Consequently, this UNESCO-HELP basin is under great uncertainty and need sustainable responses. International UNESCO-HELP Douro River Basin Symposium was organised to bring attention to this problem. This was one of the presentations of the Opening Ceremony of the Symposium

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