2020-03-09
RAHU Project: Assessing water security and climate change adaptation strategies in the glaciated Vilcanota-Urubamba river basin
2020-03-09 • Pedro Rau, Wouter Buytaert, Fabián Drenkhan, Waldo Lavado‐Casimiro, Juan J. Rodrı́guez, Nilton Montoya, Vivien Bonnesoeur, Gustavo Valdivia, Walesc...
<p>The Peruvian Andes are a hotspot of vulnerabilities to impacts in water resources due to the propensity for water stress, the highly unpredictable weather, the sensitivity of glaciers, and the socio-economic vulnerability of its population. In this context, we selected the Vilcanota-Urubamba catchment in Southern Peru for addressing these challenges aiming at our objectives within a particular hydrological high-mountain context in the tropical Andes: a) Develop a fully-distributed, physically-base…