Scripta Varia

Water and the Environment

Working Group 12-14 November 2005
Scripta Varia 108
Vatican City, 2007
pp. XVIII-234
ISBN 978-88-7761-091-1

The Fair Distribution of Water (PDF)
Reza Ardakanian

BIODIVERSITY AND HYDROLOGIC DYNAMICS

Threatened Biodiversity: Understanding, Predicting, Taking Action (PDF)
Marino Gatto & Renato Casagrandi

Ecohydrological Optimization of Pattern and Processes in WaterLimited Ecosystems (PDF)
Kelly K. Caylor, Todd M. Scanlon, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe

GLOBAL HYDROLOGY AND HYDROLOGIC DYNAMICS

Water Distribution and Availability: an Overview of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources (PDF)
Bisher Imam & Soroosh Sorooshian

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HYDROLOGIC DYNAMICS

Worldwide Changes in Evaporative Demand (PDF)
Graham Farquhar and Michael Roderick

Impact of Aerosols on the Hydrological Cycle (PDF)
Ulrike Lohmann

LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS

Plant Hydraulic Properties Limit Photosynthetic Capacity and Regeneration Potential (PDF)
Gabriel Katul, Ram Oren, Heather McCarthy, and Kimberly Novick

Precipitation Suppression by Anthropogenic Air Pollution: Major Loss of Water Resources Where We Need Them Most (PDF)
Daniel Rosenfeld

Climate and Land Use Changes in Amazonia: Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and on Biome Distribution (PDF)
Carlos A. Nobre, Gilvan Sampaio and Luis Salazar

RIVER BASINS

River Basins: Water and Complex Adaptive Systems (PDF)
Andrea Rinaldo

Heading Towards Basin-Level Hydrosolidarity Goal for Land/Water/Ecosystem Coordination (PDF)
Malin Falkenmark

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

From the Physics of the Small to Large Basin Synthesis (PDF)
Lucio Ubertini

Water and the Environment: Concluding Comments (PDF)
Howard S. Wheater

Contribution to Final Discussion (PDF)
James Dooge

Statement of the Workshop on Water and the Environment (PDF)
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe