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The dry areas face severe challenges to sustainable development. The biggest challenges – food insecurity, water scarcity, land degradation, and climate change – are closely inter-related. The effects of climate change will be felt globally, but the dry areas will be particularly hard hit.
The conceptual difference between conventional scientific and natural resource management (NRM) research is based on the need for researchers and the NRM community to be joint learning partners in the process.
Voorzitter Henk van Alderwegen van Waterschap Peel en Maasvallei overhandigde op 5 februari 2010 het eerste officiële exemplaar van het boek 'Het brede beekdal als klimaatbestendige buffer in de veranderende leefomgeving' aan Peter Glas, de nieuwe voorzitter van de Unie van Waterschappen.
This paper compares the Hoa Binh (constructed 1979-1994) and Son La dams (under construction since 2005) to investigate how Vietnam’s resettlement policies and programmes have evolved over time.
Unstable geological conditions and steep topography, combined with frequent extreme weather conditions, make the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region prone to many natural hazards.
The importance of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture in Spain provides the rationale for this paper, which analyses and evaluates the risk of water shortage on the economic result of this kind of agriculture. The main objective is to monitor this risk on a real-time basis.
Economic valuation of irrigation water is done through the use of production functions for the case of the olive grove.
The objective of the Spanish government-funded project GESMO (Gestión integral del acuífero 08.29 Mancha Oriental), is to develop new tools for the evaluation and monitoring of water policies.
El presente trabajo intenta describir brevemente la situación del derecho al agua en nuestro subcontinente.
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