Background: Inundation and severe flooding in the coastal areas is a frequent occurrence in Bangladesh. This leads to loss of life and property as well as severe impacts on livelihoods. The government of Bangladesh has been investing steadily in coastal zone management through construction and rehabilitation of polders. This project [...]
The launch side event was organised to promote the use and uptake of the IUCN toolkit, as well as stir debate and feedback on reaching agreements over water. Mark Smith, Head of the IUCN Water Programme, presented the overall Water and Nature Initiative (WANI) toolkits which now include 7 publications [...]
Ten years after the World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its ground-breaking study on the impacts of large dams, a special issue of Water Alternatives (“WCD+10: Revisiting the large dam debate”, www.water-alternatives.org) examined the progress and problems generated by the continued interest to construct large-scale dams throughout the world. Dams [...]
Project Preface The São Francisco River provides about 70% of the surface water in Northeast Brazil and like much of Brazil the basin includes communities characterized by a broad range of incomes and persistent poverty. The basin’s agricultural systems cover a similar range between capitalized export-focused enterprises and subsistence farms. [...]
Project title: Companion modeling for resilient water management: Stakeholders’ perceptions of water dynamics and collective learning at the catchment scale (PN25) Introduction Water management problems in the Mekong River Basin and the Himalayan highlands are complex given the rapidly changing, constrained and uncertain realities along with competition over water among [...]
Project title: Rice landscape management for raising water productivity, conserving resources, and improving livelihoods in upper catchments of the Mekong and Red River Basins (PN11) Introduction A complex subsistence-oriented smallholder farming system that relies on traditional practices of rice production often characterizes the upper tributary catchments of mainland Southeast Asia. [...]
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