Water risks to hydropower projects in the face of climate change
Creators
- 1. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
- 2. Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Description
This repository hosts the main outputs from an analysis using the WWF Water Risk Filter to demonstrate how one such tool can be used to screen for a variety of risks at a global scale, including risks to riverine ecosystems from both climate change and hydropower as well as risks to hydropower projects — and operators, owners, and investors — from climate change and potential regulatory or reputational risk arising from negative impacts to ecosystems. The study Using the WWF Water Risk Filter to Screen Existing and Projected Hydropower Projects for Climate and Biodiversity Risks (DOI 10.3390/w14050721) was published in the special issue of the MDPI journal Water: "Hydro-Meteorological Hazards under Climate Change".
This product incorporates data from the GRanD v1.3 database which is © Global Water System Project (2011), and from the FHReD database beta version, both datasets available at globaldamwatch.org . The source code used in this study is available at https://github.com/rafaexx/hydropowerClimateChange
See the interactive maps using this data at https://rcamargo.shinyapps.io/HydropowerClimateChange
Files
shp.zip
Additional details
References
- Lehner, B., C. Reidy Liermann, C. Revenga, C. Vörösmarty, B. Fekete, P. Crouzet, P. Döll, M. Endejan, K. Frenken, J. Magome, C. Nilsson, J.C. Robertson, R. Rodel, N. Sindorf, and D. Wisser. 2011. High-resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9 (9): 494-502. https://doi.org/10.1890/100125
- Zarfl, C., A.E. Lumsdon, J. Berlekamp, L. Tydecks, and K. Tockner. 2015. A global boom in hydropower dam construction. Aquatic Sciences 77 (1): 161–170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-014-0377-0