White Paper: Addressing the challenges of global warming for polar freshwater resources ...
Rapid transformations in the polar regions due to global warming are leading to temperatures far above the global average, severely impacting ecosystems, especially freshwater systems. Understanding these changes is crucial as they threaten vital ecosystem services essential for human and environmen...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2024
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10838764 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10838764 |
Summary: | Rapid transformations in the polar regions due to global warming are leading to temperatures far above the global average, severely impacting ecosystems, especially freshwater systems. Understanding these changes is crucial as they threaten vital ecosystem services essential for human and environmental well-being and key to One-Health approaches. Shifting precipitation patterns, ice melt, and permafrost thaw alter freshwater availability, posing challenges to local communities and increasing their vulnerability. Climate warming also deteriorates water quality through the release of pollutants and harmful microorganisms, endangering both human and natural health. Arctic communities face additional adaptation economic challenges. Urgent action through evidence-based practices, scientific research, policy-making, and local involvement is necessary to protect freshwater resources for a sustainable future. Whitin this context, the COLDwater initiative crystallised into a white paper elaborated by a team of 20 ... : Recomended citation: Velázquez, D., Cirés, S., Casero M. C., Rautio, A; Aromäki, M., Ballot, A., Camacho, A., Convey, P., De Los Ríos, A., Diez-Chiappe, A., Fournier, C., Kujala, K., Lezcano, M. A., Manso, C., Quesada, A., Rødven, R., Terrado, M., Urrutia-Cordero, P., Wilmotte, A., Workamp, K., Wörmer, L. (2024). White Paper: Addressing the challenges of global warming for polar freshwater resources. EU-PolarNet. 21 pp. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10838764 ... |
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