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    Climate-change mitigation and adaptation in small island developing states: the case of rainwater harvesting in Jamaica

    Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2012
    This essay looks at climate change impacts on small island developing states (SIDS). It argues that climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies must be developed to cope with changes such as shifting precipitation patterns, increasing evapotranspiration and expanding saline intrusion into coastal aquifers and wells.
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    UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE)

    The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education was established in 2003. It carries out research, education and capacity building activities in the fields of water, environment and infrastructure.
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    Global Water Forum

    The Global Water Forum was established in 2010 as an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance in order to present knowledge and insight from leading water r
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    GRAIN — Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab

    GRAIN, 2012
    Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change will make things worse.
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    Global environmental outlook 5: environment for the future we want

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement.
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    Water for electricity: resource scarcity, climate change and business in a finite world

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2012
    This report examines the potential impact of low carbon electricity generation technologies on water resources and how these water considerations might shape renewable generation choices. The report argues that water requirements for power generation depend on generation technology, type of cooling technology used in thermoelectric power generation and electricity demand itself.
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    Water and climate change adaptation in the Americas. Solution from the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD)

    Water and Climate Change in the Americas, 2012
    This solutions document, a product of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (comprised of 21 different agencies), seeks to address the ways in which water management practices must change in order to deal with the prospective impacts of climate change.
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    Water Security: the water-food-energy-climate nexus

    World Economic Forum, 2011
    Water security links together food, energy, climate, economic growth and human security threats. This publication sets out the challenge the world faces if nothing is done to improve water management in the next two decades. In nine chapters, it explores the sectors of agriculture, energy, trade, national security, cities, people, business, finance and climate.
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    Healthy Reefs Initiative

    Healthy Reefs for Healthy People is a collaborative international initiative that generates user-friendly tools to measure the health of the Mesoamerican Reef Ecosystem, and delivers scientifically cr
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    Reefs at Risk Revisted

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2011
    Like the original Reefs at Risk, this study evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities. It also includes an assessment of climate-related threats to reefs. In addition, Reefs at Risk Revisited includes a global assessment of the vulnerability of nations and territories to coral reef degradation, based on their dependence on coral reefs and their capacity to adapt.

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