Download or read book Global Change and Regional Impacts written by Thomas Gaiser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a summary of the main research results and the presentations given at the final conference of the WAVES Program on June 25-26, 2001 in Fortaleza (Brazil). Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semi-arid regions. The authors present disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life.