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Title Enhancing the climate resilience of Africa's infrastructure : the power and water sectors / Raffaello Cervigni, Rikard Liden, James E. Neumann, and Kenneth M. Strzepek, editors
Edition Conference edition
Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 160 pages) : color maps, color charts
Series Africa development forum
Africa development forum.
Contents Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Key Messages -- Overview -- 1. Africa's Water and Power Infrastructure -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Climate Change Projections in Africa -- 4. Establishing a Reference Investment Scenario -- 5. The Impacts of Climate Change on Infrastructure Performance -- 6. Adaption to Climate Change in Planning Infrastructure -- 7. Adaptation to Climate Change in Project Design -- 8. Recommendations
Summary "This book evaluates-using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans in Africa's main rivers basins (Niger, Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process. The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in the planning and design of power and water infrastructure could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions, losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60% (depending on the basin); and increases in consumer expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-as-usual infrastructure development could lead to foregone revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not used to expand the production of hydropower. Despite the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter conditions will prevail in the future in Africa, the book finds that by modifying existing investment plans to explicitly handle the risk of large climate swings, can cut in half or more the cost that would accrue by building infrastructure on the basis of the climate of the past"--Publisher's description
Notes ""A co-publication of the Agence française de développement and the World Bank."
"The text of this conference edition is a work in progress for the forthcoming book, 'Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure: The Power and Water Sectors' "--Title page verso
Online resource; title from PDF title page (World Bank, viewed July 23, 2015)
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Africa -- Management -- 21st century -- Congresses
Climatic changes -- Africa -- 21st century -- Congresses
Global warming -- Africa -- 21st century -- Congresses
Water-supply -- Africa -- Management -- 21st century -- Congresses
Water resources development -- Africa -- 21st century -- Congresses
Energy industries -- Africa -- Management -- 21st century -- Congresses
Resilience (Ecology) -- Africa -- Management -- 21st century -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Climatic changes
Energy industries -- Management
Global warming
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management
Water resources development
Water-supply -- Management
Africa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Cervigni, Raffaello, editor, author.
Liden, Rikard, editor, author
Neumann, James E., 1962- editor, author.
Strzepek, Kenneth M., editor, author.
World Bank Group, issuing body.
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa, sponsoring body
Agence française de développement, issuing body
ISBN 9781464804670
1464804672
Other Titles Power and water sectors