Homero Paltán
Biographic Data
| ID | 6454229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Homero Paltán |
| GIVEN NAMES | Homero |
| FAMILY NAME | Paltán |
| SIGNATURE | PALTÁN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6952-6850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities
Megacities are increasingly confronted with water supply challenges, requiring innovative and diversified management strategies to ensure sustainability. This study examines Mexico City’s Cosecha de Lluvia program, a government initiative promoting residential rainwater harvesting (RWH). This case study offers valuable lessons for other megacities facing similar water security issues. The study particularly explores result-based financing (RBF) a…
Water-related infrastructure investments in a changing environment
At present, there is a global deficit in infrastructure and the World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the major sources of financing to reduce this gap worldwide. The WBG has policies and protocols for approving investments taking into consideration financial and economic indicators while ensuring social and environmental safeguards. In recent years, these safeguards have been updated to include the effects of climate change and robustness and resilie…
Water shortage risks for China’s coal power plants under climate change
China is the largest electricity producer in the world and more than 70% of its electricity is from coal-fired power plants where water is an indispensable input, primarily for cooling purposes. Water shortages could hamper coal-fired power plants productions and result in economic losses. In this study, we simulate monthly river flows in China on a 0.5° × 0.5° spatial resolution using a calibrated physically based hydrological model, H08, that i…
Return period of extreme rainfall substantially decreases under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming
In June 2013, Uttarakhand experienced a hydro-meteorological disaster due to a 4 d extreme precipitation event of return period more than 100 years, claiming thousands of lives and causing enormous damage to infrastructure. Using the weather@home climate modelling system and its Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts simulations, this study investigates the change in the return period of similar events in a 1.5 °C and 2…
Global implications of 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer worlds on extreme river flows
Targets agreed to in Paris in 2015 aim to limit global warming to "well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels". Despite the far-reaching consequences of this multi-lateral climate change mitigation strategy, the implications for global river flows remain unclear. Here we estimate the impacts of 1.5oC vs 2.0oC mitigation scenarios on peak flows by using daily river flow data from a…
The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon
Global implications of 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer worlds on extreme river flows
Targets agreed to in Paris in 2015 aim to limit global warming to "well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels". Despite the far-reaching consequences of this multi-lateral climate change mitigation strategy, the implications for global river flows remain unclear. Here we estimate the impacts of 1.5oC vs 2.0oC mitigation scenarios on peak flows by using daily river flow data from a…
The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon
Return period of extreme rainfall substantially decreases under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming
In June 2013, Uttarakhand experienced a hydro-meteorological disaster due to a 4 d extreme precipitation event of return period more than 100 years, claiming thousands of lives and causing enormous damage to infrastructure. Using the weather@home climate modelling system and its Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts simulations, this study investigates the change in the return period of similar events in a 1.5 °C and 2…
Water shortage risks for China’s coal power plants under climate change
China is the largest electricity producer in the world and more than 70% of its electricity is from coal-fired power plants where water is an indispensable input, primarily for cooling purposes. Water shortages could hamper coal-fired power plants productions and result in economic losses. In this study, we simulate monthly river flows in China on a 0.5° × 0.5° spatial resolution using a calibrated physically based hydrological model, H08, that i…
Water-related infrastructure investments in a changing environment
At present, there is a global deficit in infrastructure and the World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the major sources of financing to reduce this gap worldwide. The WBG has policies and protocols for approving investments taking into consideration financial and economic indicators while ensuring social and environmental safeguards. In recent years, these safeguards have been updated to include the effects of climate change and robustness and resilie…
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities
Megacities are increasingly confronted with water supply challenges, requiring innovative and diversified management strategies to ensure sustainability. This study examines Mexico City’s Cosecha de Lluvia program, a government initiative promoting residential rainwater harvesting (RWH). This case study offers valuable lessons for other megacities facing similar water security issues. The study particularly explores result-based financing (RBF) a…
Climate change (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 works) · Water resources management and optimization (3 works) · Climate variability and models (2 works) · Climatology (2 works)