Biodiversity & Ecosystem services

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Urban Water Dialogues, Panama City

Lea Appulo uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2017

buroniv_wi_leaflet_a4_case5_panama-city_web-2.pdf 1.22 MB

The Juan Díaz sub-district of Panama City has become the most flood-prone area of Panama due to urban developments and landfills in the floodplains, riverbeds and mangroves. Experts of the Dutch water sector, supported by Wetlands International, analysed the problem and advised to start ‘Water...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Water trade-offs to reduce drought in the Tana Delta

Lea Appulo uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2017

buroniv_wi_leaflet_a4_case3_kenya_web-1.pdf 1.76 MB

The Tana Delta is at the far downstream end of the Tana River Basin which provides eighty percent of Nairobi’s drinking water. Fifty-sixty percent of Kenya’s current energy demand is generated through hydropower dams. Seven million people live in the river basin with mostly agricultural livelihoods...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Keeping the water in the landscape, Uganda

Lea Appulo updated the Document | 31 July 2017

buroniv_wi_leaflet_a4_case6_uganda_web-2.pdf 1.33 MB

In the not so distant past, the people of Rwambu, Uganda faced shortages of water, crop failures and waterborne diseases. This was largely created by agricultural expansion and bad management of the wetlands. Wetland management, water, sanitation, deforestation and soil degradation had previously...

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Group: Ecosystem-based approaches to DRR and CCA
Stikine 229

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 30 July 2017

BASIN Total Basin Name Area_km 2 Stikine 229 51128 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km 2 Percentage 50122 98 Canada 1006 2 United States of America Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 48.589100 14.576730 870 0.001479 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Roia 202

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 30 July 2017

BASIN Total Basin Name Area_km 2 Roia 202 626 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km 2 Percentage 421 67 France 205 33 Italy Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 0.000000 0.000000 20,500 0.034850 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution Country Water...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Red/Song Hong 196

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 30 July 2017

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Red/Song Hong 196 156718 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 84109 54 China 1181 1 Laos, People's Democratic Republic of 71428 46 Vietnam Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 84.298700 25.289610 29,811,500 50...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Po 186

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 30 July 2017

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Po 186 87213 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 329 0 France 82515 95 Italy 4369 5 Switzerland Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 37.105944 11.131783 18,055,480 30.694316 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Negro 158

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 29 July 2017

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Negro 158 5735 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 614 11 Honduras 5121 89 Nicaragua Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 3.255560 0.976668 278,200 0.472940 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Loffa 135

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 29 July 2017

BASIM Total Basin Area_km Name Area_km Loffa 135 11352 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km Percentage 1311 12 Guinea 10041 88 Liberia Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 18.991900 1.899190 293,900 0.293900 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution...

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Group: IRLN=International River Law Network & IWRF=International Water Rights Forum
Flurry 75

Zhijian Wang updated the WIKI page | 28 July 2017

Basin name Total Basin Area_km Area_km Flurry 75 60 Country Country COUNTRY Area_km percentage 29 48 Ireland 31 52 United Kingdom Basin Nature Basin Basin-Human Rights_km 3 Rights_km 3 Population Rights_km 3 0.000000 0.000000 8,100 0.013770 COUNTRY Country Country-Human Country Contribution Country...

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