Egypt is vulnerable to climate change especially with regard to its water and land resources.
Climate change will increase the evaporation losses from the High Aswan Dam Reservoir (HADR)
and lead to loss of land at the northern coast due to sea level rise. In order to tackle this
problem this book assesses several adaptation tools that could be used to mitigate some of
these impacts. For instance Egypt could optimize ist water resources by decreasing evaporation
losses from the HADR or it could maximize land resources by identifying new settlement sites
especially for climate migrants from the northern coastal zones. Databases on the
characteristics of the HADR such as meteorological hydrological topographic and bed soil
sedimentary data were compiled. Based on these databases up-to-date mathematical models were
developed to describe the hydrological characteristics of the HADR. Several options for
reducing evaporation losses and new settlement areas were discovered and evaluated. Essential
measures to preserve these areas were presented to promote sustainable development in this
region.
