Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa
The development of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a major aid for agricultural regions with scarce water and anticipated climate change impacts. The selection of storage options is often conducted through monetary assessment of direct costs and benefits. Such an approach,...
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| author | Xenarios, Stefanos McCartney, Matthew P. Polatidis, H. Eguavoen, I. |
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| description | The development of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a major aid for agricultural regions with scarce water and anticipated climate change impacts. The selection of storage options is often conducted through monetary assessment of direct costs and benefits. Such an approach, although prompt and straightforward, often leads to reductionism in the assessment process and loss of valuable information. This in turn can result in less than optimal decision-making. Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with thresholds and weighting values. Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach proposed avoids some crucial weaknesses of cost-benefit analysis and places greater emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental criteria. The method has been evaluated in six case studies conducted in Ethiopia and Ghana. |
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| spelling | CGSpace387402023-09-23T17:51:47Z Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa Xenarios, Stefanos McCartney, Matthew P. Polatidis, H. Eguavoen, I. water storage adaptation climate change economic aspects case studies The development of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a major aid for agricultural regions with scarce water and anticipated climate change impacts. The selection of storage options is often conducted through monetary assessment of direct costs and benefits. Such an approach, although prompt and straightforward, often leads to reductionism in the assessment process and loss of valuable information. This in turn can result in less than optimal decision-making. Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with thresholds and weighting values. Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach proposed avoids some crucial weaknesses of cost-benefit analysis and places greater emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental criteria. The method has been evaluated in six case studies conducted in Ethiopia and Ghana. 2011 2014-06-13T11:42:47Z 2014-06-13T11:42:47Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38740 en Limited Access Xenarios, Stefanos; McCartney, Matthew; Polatidis, H.; Eguavoen, I. 2011. Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management - Management Water in a Changing World: Lessons Learnt and Innovative Perspectives, Dresden, Germany, 12-13 October 2011. 14p. |
| spellingShingle | water storage adaptation climate change economic aspects case studies Xenarios, Stefanos McCartney, Matthew P. Polatidis, H. Eguavoen, I. Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title | Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| title_short | Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| topic | water storage adaptation climate change economic aspects case studies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38740 |
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