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== Publication Title ==
Participatory Integrated Assessment of Water Management and Climate Change in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia
== Publication Type ==
Report, Environment Canada and the University of British Columbia
== Author(s) ==
Ed. Stewart Cohen and Tina Neale
== Publication Date ==
2006
== ISBN-ISSN-EAN ==
0-662-41999-5
== Publication URL ==
Adaptation and Impacts Research Division (AIRD), Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainibility http://www.ires.ubc.ca/aird/index.html
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program, Natural Resources Canada  http://www.adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
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== Summary ==
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This is the final report of the study, “Participatory Integrated Assessment of Water
Management and [[Climate Change]] in the [[Okanagan Basin]], British Columbia.” This study
was made possible with financial support from the Government of Canada’s Climate Change
Impacts and Adaptation Program (project A846). The research activity described in this
report is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort involving researchers from Environment
Canada, Smart Growth on the Ground, the University of British Columbia, and the BC
Ministry of Environment, as well as many local partners and researchers from Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada and Australian National University, who participated in our 2002-2004
study.
Previous research on climate change and Okanagan water resources since 1997 has provided a
potential damage report. Impacts on water supply and water demand have been described,
and a dialogue on adaptation options and challenges has been initiated. This study offers a
[[participatory integrated assessment (PIA)]] of the Okanagan water system’s response to climate
change. The goal of the PIA is to expand the dialogue on implications of adaptation choices
for water management to include domestic and agriculture uses and in-stream conservation
flows, for the basin as a whole as well as for particular sub-regions. This has been
accomplished through collaboration with ongoing studies in these areas, and builds on the
results of earlier work.
The major components of this study are:
1. '''Residential water demand''': developing future demand scenarios for residential users,
factoring in population growth and adaptation options;
2. '''Adaptation costs''': expanding the inventory of various supply and demand management
measures and incorporating water treatment costs;
3. '''Decision support model''': building a system model, using a group-based process with local
experts, which enables learning on impacts of climate and population changes, and the
effects of implementation of various adaptation measures;
4. '''Adaptation policy – residential design''': bringing climate change into community design
through Smart Growth on the Ground’s process for creating a water-smart community plan
in the Town of Oliver and surrounding area;
5. '''Adaptation policy – agricultural water use''': exploring growers’ views on regional water
policy.
== References ==
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== See also ==
* Powerpoint Presented by Stewart J. Cohenat at the Third International Conference on Climate and Water (3-6 September 2007, Helsinki) [http://www.ymparisto.fi/download.asp?contentid=74481&lan=en#364,43,  ''Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change in the Water Sector'']
[[Climate change]]
[[Climate Change and Adaptation]]
[[IPCC]]
[[IWRM]]
[[Water management]]
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