Water in the Americas

Water is a recurrent issue throughout the Americas. The context of global change renders it even more acute: the vagaries of rainfall in a changing climate, growing demand from ever increasing populations and the development of high consumption agricultural and industrial activities are making the equation between offer and demand more and more tricky to balance. Over the last two decades, extreme episodes of either drought or excess precipitation have become more frequent and led to successi

Agriculture · Climate change · Climatology · Economics · Geography · Meteorology · Natural resource economics · Precipitation · Social science · Sociology · Water balance · Water consumption · Water resource management · Engineering · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Environmental Science · Psychology · Water Resource Management and Quality · Ecology