The relationship between rainfall and human density and its implications for future water stress in sub-Saharan Africa
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This paper uses Geographic Information System (GIS) data on population density, rainfall and climate change scenarios in order to identify areas that will be subject to increased water stress due to insufficient precipitation to support their projected population levels in 2050. Density increases across the continent should lead to a significant increase in the extent of water stressed zones, especially around the Sahel belt and in Eastern Africa. Changes in rainfall, the pattern of which remains inherently uncertain today, could mitigate or compound those effects. Consequences of unsustainably high local densities such as migrations are bound to become more prevalent.Download Info
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Paper provided by United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs in its series Working Papers with number 57.Length: 30 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2007
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Handle: RePEc:une:wpaper:57
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Keywords: climate change; rainfall; climate modeling; demographic growth; migrations; Africa;Other versions of this item:
- le Blanc, David & Perez, Romain, 2008. "The relationship between rainfall and human density and its implications for future water stress in Sub-Saharan Africa," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(2-3), pages 319-336, June.
- Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-AFR-2007-10-27 (Africa)
- NEP-ALL-2007-10-27 (All new papers)
- NEP-ENV-2007-10-27 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2007-10-27 (Economics of Human Migration)
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- Salvador Barrios & Luisito Bertinelli & Eric Strobl, 2006.
"Climatic Change and Rural-Urban Migration: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa,"
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- Naude, Wim, 2008. "Conflict, Disasters, and No Jobs: Reasons for International Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers RP2008/85, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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