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Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure: The Power and Water Sectors

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dc.contributor.authorLiden, Rikard
dc.contributor.authorCervigni, Raffaello
dc.contributor.authorNeumann, James E.
dc.contributor.authorStrzepek, Kenneth M.
dc.contributor.editorCervigni, Raffaello
dc.contributor.editorLiden, Rikard
dc.contributor.editorNeumann, James E.
dc.contributor.editorStrzepek, Kenneth M.
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-12T17:26:06Z
dc.date.available2015-05-12T17:26:06Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-01
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-0466-3
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-0466-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/21875
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrica Development Forum;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectHydroelectric power generation
dc.subjectInfrastructure investment
dc.subjectIrrigation
dc.subjectRiver basins
dc.subjectWater infrastructure
dc.subjectWater storage capacity
dc.subjectInfrastructure development
dc.titleEnhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructureen
dc.title.subtitleThe Power and Water Sectorsen
dc.typeBooken
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dc.typeLibroes
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaClimate Change
okr.date.disclosure2015-09-01
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
okr.externalurlhttp://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/publication/planning-africas-infrastructure-uncertain-climate-future
okr.globalpracticeWater
okr.globalpracticeEnergy and Extractives
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-0466-3
okr.identifier.report96040
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.geographicalSub-Saharan Africa
okr.topicEnergy::Electric Power
okr.topicEnergy::Hydro Power
okr.topicEnvironment::Water Resources Management
okr.topicInfrastructure Economics and Finance::Infrastructure Economics
okr.topicWater Resources::Dams and Reservoirs
okr.topicWater Resources::Irrigation and Drainage
okr.topicWater Resources::River Basin Management
okr.topicWater Resources::Water and Energy
okr.unitAfrica Region (AFRVP)
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