Convention to Combat Desertification

Abstract

The climate and hydrological cycles are intimately linked, and pay little heed to human institutions. Increased anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the atmosphere, changing the climate and, as a consequence, beginning to change the hydrological cycle. Managing fresh water, along with the impacts of climate change, involves complex, multidisciplinary challenges. Even before climate-induced changes are considered, freshwater resources are limited and often overexploited and badly managed. 1 Water management — like responding to climate change — is a ‘wicked problem’, with particularly incomplete, contradictory and changing requirements; complex interdependencies; and difficulties in defining the problems themselves, and in identifying and reaching consensus on solutions. 2

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