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    Sustainable water management for resilience to climate change impact on society in South Africa (SUWAM)

    SINTEF, 2017
    The report presents the key findings from the project Sustainable water management for resilience to climate change impact on society in South Africa. The project was carried out as a collaboration between SINTEF and Stellenbosch University, with Hessequa Municipality as a partner.
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    Lake Victoria Basin: atlas of our changing environment

    GRID Arendal, 2017
    Draining an area of 194,200 km2, Lake Victoria Basin is one of East Africa’s most prominent landmarks. It not only provides the headwaters of the White Nile but is also central to the development and regional integration of the East Africa Community.
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    Natural resource governance at multiple scales in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017
    Human efforts to address poverty, enhance welfare, and conserve natural resources and the environment often fail because of faulty governance and implementation. Improvements in governance are consistently viewed as means to address the failures of sustainable development and natural resource management.
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    Everybody lives upstream: the watershed approach for the changing climate of the Hindu Kush Himalaya

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017
    Globally, the watershed approach has been proven as a way to bridge human and natural systems for the conservation, sustainable use, and renewal of natural resources, especially water.
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    Upper Indus Basin Network and Indus Forum Collaboration Meeting 22-–25 May 2017, Kathmandu, Nepal

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017
    The Upper Indus Basin Network and Indus Forum Collaboration Meeting, a joint workshop, was conducted from 22–25 May 2017. A majority of the participants came from Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan, countries that share the transboundary Indus River Basin. Among the participants were senior government officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and several international organizations.
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    Integrated marine and coastal management in the western Indian Ocean: towards a sustainable oceans economy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2017
    The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region has valuable and diverse coastal and marine resources, but much of its natural capital is either threatened or declining. The WIO encompasses rich diverse tropical and subtropical areas along the coastlines of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa.
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    United Nations World Water Assessment Programme

    Hosted and led by UNESCO, the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) coordinates the work of 31 UN-Water
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    Water and Climate Blue Book

    World Water Council, 2016
    Llaunched by the Morroccan government at COP22 in Marrakech, the blue book aims to raise international awareness on the vulnerability of water in the context of climate change and the urgency of action. It also speaks in favor of merging both agendas of water and climate, in order to ensure a total integration of water in the negotiations on climate change.
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    Impacts of climate change on the cryosphere, hydrological regimes and glacial lakes of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: a review of current knowledge

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2016
    The climate and cryosphere of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region have changed in the past and are very likely to change in the future. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. The atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants has increased, the atmosphere and oceans have warmed, snow and ice have diminished, and the sea level has risen.
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    Atolls and climate change: strengthening resilience

    Agence française de développement, 2016
    At just a few meters above the waves, the atolls or low-lying coral islands surrounding a lagoon are one of the areas the most exposed to the many consequences of climate change (rising water levels, lagoon erosion, but also ocean acidification and land salinization, changes in rainfall patterns, etc.).

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