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  • Global Change: Abrupt/rapid climate change (4901, 8408)
  • Hydrology: Water supply

Abstract

EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 88, NO. 25, PAGE 261, 2007
doi:10.1029/2007EO250001

FEATURE

Economic impacts of rapid glacier retreat in the Andes

Walter Vergara

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Alejandro Deeb

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Adriana Valencia

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Raymond Bradley

Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bernard Francou

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Quito, Ecuador

Alonso Zarzar

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Alfred Grünwaldt

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Seraphine Haeussling

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

In the Andes, runoff from glacierized basins is an important element of water budgets, assuring year-round flows for agriculture, potable water, power generation, and ecosystem integrity. Thus, changes induced by tropical glacier retreat constitute an early case of the need for adaptation and the type and size of associated economic and social impacts caused by climate change.

Citation: Vergara, W., A. Deeb, A. Valencia, R. Bradley, B. Francou, A. Zarzar, A. Grünwaldt, and S. Haeussling (2007), Economic impacts of rapid glacier retreat in the Andes, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(25), 261, doi:10.1029/2007EO250001.

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