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Towards Integrated Water Resources Management: International Experience in...
This report has been produced as result of the two cycles of programming on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) funded by the UK government’s Department for... -
Ecosystem Approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): A...
This research aimed to provide a detailed review of selected transboundary basins to ascertain the application of ecosystem-based approaches and draw specific lessons for... -
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
This study was designed to gain insights into how regional and basin water agreements take into account principles and provisions of international water law – both customary... -
Plan of Action to Combat Desertification in Syria
The Plan of Action to Combat Desertification in Syria highlights the gravity of the desertification problems encountered in the various Syrian environmental regions, notably the... -
State Of the Cartagena Convention Area: An Assessment of Marine Pollution...
The State of the Convention Area (SOCAR)is the fi rst such region-wide assessment undertaken by the Secretariat, and is a baseline assessment of the state of the Wider Caribbean... -
Assessment and Promotion of Human Resources for River Water Quality Management
East Asian countries have been experiencing an economic boom over the past several years. Industrial development and trade are on the rise, fuelled by healthy and vigorous... -
River Partners: Applying Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR)...
In 2013-2016, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission (EC) supported a pilot demonstration project on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction... -
Uganda Wetlands Atlas - Volume II
Wetlands underpin the livelihoods of people and their integrity is fundamental to national development. The Uganda Wetlands Atlas, Volume II presents a comprehensive overview of... -
Uganda Wetlands Atlas - Volume I
This publication has been driven by the need to address the rising concerns about the impact of human activities on wetlands in Uganda, particularly those around the Kampala... -
Regional Overview on Integrated Coastal and River Basin Management (ICARM)...
This publication provides an overview of integrated coastal and river basin management in the NOWPAP region. It covers topics such as the experiences of ICARM planning and... -
The Global Environment Monitoring System: Late Quaternary Environments in...
This report presents the results of research done in and around the Chalbi basin, Marsabit district, Kenya, from 1982-1984. The broad objective of this research was to trace... -
Nile River Basin: Climate Change Adaptation Capacities in the Nile River Basin
The main objective of this study was to assess the existing national and regional capacities, the needs and the modalities to tackle the needs identified in order to fast-track... -
Nile River Basin: Stock Taking of Adaptation Activities in the Nile River Basin
This desktop review was undertaken with the aim of identifying key stakeholders and partners at continental, sub-regional, basin, national and local levels, with a particular... -
Nile River Basin: Nile Basin Adaptation to Water Stress: Comprehensive...
This report is a contribution to the UNEP project “Adapting to climate change induced water stress in the Nile River Basin”. It summarises the technical developments and... -
Nile River Basins: Review of Adaptation Best Practice Examples in the Nile...
UNEP recognizes the importance of the Nile River Basin in the context of a variable and changing climate and hence the imperative to design and pilot adaptation options at basin... -
Vital Water Graphics: An Overview of the State of the World's Fresh and Marine Waters
Through a total of 40 graphics, together with accompanying texts arid maps, Vital Water Graphics highlights how the quantity, quality and availability of fresh and marine waters... -
Incorporating a Human Health Component into the Integrated Development and...
The PEEM mission to the Lower Mekong Basin provides a case study of the status of health and environmental components in river basin development and management. -
River Cetina Watershed and the Adjacent Coastal Area: Environmental and...
Specific objectives: • To identify the major problems relating to the development of the Cetina basin and to establish and prioritise the means to their solution; • To identify... -
Water Management of the Amazon Basin
This paper analyzes annual maximum precipitation series for the Xingu and Tapajos basins located both in the Amazon basin. The analysis has the objective of indicating a... -
Integrated Management of Watersheds in Relation to Management and...
This document synthesizes the national inventories and synopses in four thematic overviews on coral reefs, seagrass beds, coastal wetlands, and watersheds and attempts to focus...