Ecosystem Approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): A Review of Transboundary Basins

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.authorInternational Institute for Sustainable Development
dc.contributor.authorWater Innovation Centre
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.contributor.otherRoy, D.
dc.contributor.otherBarr, J.
dc.contributor.otherVenema, H. D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-12T14:41:53Z
dc.date.available2020-05-12T14:41:53Z
dc.date.issued2011-08
dc.descriptionIntegrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) combines land and water management through broad-based stakeholder participation to realize multiple co-benefits in watersheds. The potential for IWRM in transboundary watersheds throughout the world is highly significant, since approximately 40% of the world’s population lives in river and lake basins that comprise two or more countries (UN-Water 2008). Almost 50% of the Earth’s land surface lies within such transboundary watersheds, which provide over 60% of global freshwater flow. These watersheds also represent large tracts of land with high biodiversity and forest cover. It has been estimated, however, that a third of the world’s watersheds have lost more than 75% of their original forest cover and that 17 river basins have lost more than 95% (Revenga, et al. 1998). Competition with activities that lead to deforestation, mostly due to a need for increased food production, makes it imperative to sustainably manage such watersheds and the ecosystem services (ES) from them (including food and water).en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32267
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number86 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectecosystem
dc.subjecttransboundary water
dc.subjectriver basin
dc.subjectcase study
dc.titleEcosystem Approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): A Review of Transboundary Basinsen
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