Article Reference Assessing climate change impacts on the quantity of water in Alpine

BENISTON, Martin, et al. This paper provides a short introduction to the special issue of ‘‘Environmental Science and Policy’ ’ dedicated to policy issues emerging from the large integrating European ‘‘ACQWA’’ project. This 5-year research project focused on upstream–downstream links related to water resources in mountains where snow and ice are a major component of the hydrological cycle – and thus extremely vulnerable to climatic change. Contributions to this special issue explore issues of governance in different socio-political contexts (Europe, Chile, Kyrgyzstan), and for environmental and economic sectors that compete for water, such as freshwater ecosystems, agriculture or energy (hydropower). BENISTON, Martin, et al. Assessing climate change impacts on the quantity of water in Alpin