Managing the growing impacts of development on fragile coastal and marine ecosystems: Lessons from the Gulf (2011)

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Fertile Ground? Options for a Science-Policy Platform on Land (2011)

In colloboration with UNU-INWEH, DesertNet International has published a policy brief on developing a science-policy platform on land to highlight the urgent need to address land degredation and desertification issues at the global level.

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Deep Words, Shallow Words: An Initial Analysis of Water Discourse in Four Decades of UN Declarations (2011)

A product of a collaborative effort between UNU-INWEH and McMaster University, this report analyses the evolution of the language of water and other related issues (poverty, gender, climate change, etc) from eleven UN water and environment-related conferences over the course of forty years.

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Guidelines for the Preparation and Reporting on Globally-relevant SLM Impact Indicators for Project-level Monitoring (2011)

“Ensuring Impacts from SLM – Development of a Global Indicator System”
“KM:Land” Initiative

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Contaminants in the coastal karst aquifer system along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (2011)

Contaminants in the coastal karst aquifer system along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Request for copies: benede@inweh.unu.edu

The growing need for sustainable ecological management of marine communities of the Persian Gulf (2011)

Request for copies: benede@inweh.unu.edu

Report on Transboundary Lake Basin Management: Laurentian and African Great Lakes (2011)

A UNU-INWEH Report synthesizing the discussions and lessons learned during dialogues on Transboundary Lake Basin Management and Twinning, held in Entebbe, Uganda (2008) and Niagara Falls, Canada (2009).

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Preserving Reef Connectivity, A Handbook for Marine Protected Area Managers (2010)

This handbook is a product of the Coral Reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for
Management Program (CRTR).

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World Atlas of Mangroves (2010)10)

A new and comprehensive map and account of mangrove forests has just been published.

- Press Release and Flyer

Final White Paper from DSD Consortium's Working Group 3 (2010)

Monitoring and assessment of desertification and land degradation in the context of knowledge management, institutions and economics.

Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, Harriet Bigas and Richard Thomas

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Sanitation as a Key to Global Health - Voices from the field (2010)

A UNU-INWEH Policy Brief

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The Science of No-Take Fishery Reserves - A Guide for Managers (2009)

Hanneke Van Lavieren

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Revitalizing the UNCCD (2009)

A policy paper prepared by an independent panel of desertification experts

Adeel, Dent, Dobie, Mersmann, Niamir-Fuller, Quatrini and Sokona

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What Makes Traditional Technologies Tick - A review of traditional approaches for water management in drylands - Adeel, Schuster and Bigas (Eds.) (2008)

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Safe Water as the Key to Global Health (2008)

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People in Marginal Drylands - Managing Natural Resources to Improve Human Well-being (2008)

A Policy Brief based on the SUMAMAD experience

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Stemming Decline of the Coastal Ocean: Rethinking Environmental Management (2008)

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Water and Ecosystems: Managing Water Resources in Diverse Ecosystems (2007)

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Overcoming One of the Greatest Environmental Challenges of Our Times: Re-thinking Policies to Cope with Desertification (2006)

A UNU-INWEH Policy Brief

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Conference Proceedings: Desertification and the International Policy Imperative (2006)

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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Desertification Synthesis (2005)

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UNU-INWEH Brochure (2005)

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Capacity Building at UNU-INWEH: The  Four Pillars Approach