UNU-INWEH releases (and contributes to) a variety of publications, including policy briefs, concept papers, journal articles and books around a variety of thematic areas. Please submit requests to contact.inweh@unu.edu and specify the title of the abstract(s) for which you wish to receive the full articles for, subject to copyright rules and regulations of the respective journal.

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Water Security and the Global Agenda: A UN Water Analytical Brief (2012)

The Global Water Crisis: Addressing an Urgent Security Issue (2012)

Synthesis Report: Science-Policy Bridges Over Troubled Waters (2012)

IW:Science Report: Groundwater Synopsis (2012)

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Groundwater Analysis (2012)

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Lakes Synopsis (2012)

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Lakes Analysis (2012)

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River Basins Synopsis (2012)

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River Basins Analysis (2012)

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Land-based Pollution SourcesSynopsis (2012)

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Land-based Pollution SourcesAnalysis (2012)

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Large Marine Ecosystems & the Open Oceans Synopsis (2012)

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Large Marine Ecosystems & the Open Ocean Analysis (2012)

Concept Paper: Expanding Our Understanding of K* (2012)

From Community to Cabinet - Two Decades of GEF Action to Secure Transboundary River Basins and Aquifers (2012)

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

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

Ensuring Gender Equity - A Policy Statement (2008)

Policy Brief: Securing the Future of Mangroves (2012)

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Reef reminiscences: ratcheting back the shifted baselines (2012)

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

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

World Atlas of Mangroves (2010)

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

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

An effective regional Marine Protected Area network for the ROPME Sea Area:
Unrealistic vision or realistic possibility? (2012)

Examination of residence time and its relevance to water quality within a coastal mega-structure: The Palm Jumeirah Lagoon (2012)

Managing fleet capacity effectively under second-hand market redistribution (2012)

What Is Behind Fleet Evolution: A Framework for Flow Analysis and Application to the French Atlantic Fleet (2012)

How constrained? Entry into the French Atlantic fishery through second-hand vessel purchase (2012)

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

Abstract: Biogeographic patterns of reef fish community structure in the northeastern Arabian Peninsula (2011)

Abstract: Coral reproduction in the world’s warmest reefs: southern Persian Gulf (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) (2011)

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

Effects of Customary Marine Closures on Fish Behavior, Spear‐Fishing Success, and Underwater Visual Surveys (2011)

Water Currents and Water Budget in a Coastal Megastructure, Palm Jumeirah Lagoon, Dubai, UAE (2011)

Abstract: Benthic development on large-scale engineered reefs: a comparison of communities among breakwaters of different age and natural reefs (2011)

Abstract: Ongoing global biodiversity loss and the need to move beyond protected areas: a review of the technical and practical shortcomings of protected areas on land and sea (2011)

Proceedings: Strengthening coastal pollution management in the Wider Caribbean Region (2011)

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

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

Monitoring and Assessment
of Desertification and Land Degradation: Knowledge Management, Institutions and Economics (2010)

Revitalizing the UNCCD (2009)

Understanding Desertifiaction and Land Degradation Trends (2009)

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

Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands: Using Science to Promote Sustainable Development Project Findings from Northern Africa to Asia (2008)

What Makes Traditional
Technologies Tick? A Review of Traditional Approaches for Water Management in Drylands (2008)

Soils, Society & Global Change: Proceedings of the International Forum
Celebrating the Centenary of Conservation and Restoration of Soil and Vegetation in Iceland (2007)

Water and Ecosystems : Managing Water in Diverse Ecosystems to Ensure Human Well-Being (2007)

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

Desertification and the International Policy Imperative (2006)

Challenges for Drylands in the New Millennium (2003)

Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands: Application of Indigenous Knowledge for Coastal Drylands (2002)

Integrated Land Management in Dry Areas (2001)

New Approaches to Water Management in Central Asia (2000)

Water Management in Arid Zones (1999)

New Technologies to Combat Desertification (1998)

Fertile ground? Options for a science-policy platform for land. (2012)

Health implications for children in wastewater-irrigated peri-urban Aleppo, Syria. (2012)

Water quality: Assessment of the current situation in Asia (2012)

Costs of land degradation and benefits of land restoration: A review of valuation methods and their application (2012)

Farmer compensation and its consequences for environmental benefit provision in the Higher Level Stewardship Scheme (2011)

Global drylands: A UN system-wide response (2011)

Land Degradation and Development (2011)

Six articles by R. Thomas, H. Bigas, and B. Adhikari

Sanitation Drive to 2015 - A Planner's Guide (2012)

Summary Analysis: Quantifying Water Supply, Sanitation and Millenium Development Goals (2011)

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

Safe Water as the Key to Global Health (2008)

Developing a Vulnerability Mapping Methodology: Applying the Water-Associated Disease Index to Dengue in Malaysia (2013)

Global Exploring Water Governance and Management in Oneida Nation of the Thames (Ontario, Canada): An Application of the Institutional and Analysis Development Framework (2013)

Global public health policy transfer and dengue fever in Putrajaya, Malaysia: a critical discourse analysis (2012)

The place of health and the health of place: Dengue fever and urban governance in Putrajaya, Malaysia (2012)

An ecological quantification of the relationships between water, sanitation and infant, child, and maternal mortality (2012)

Data Integration at the Water-Health Nexus (2011)

"You cannot prevent a disease, you can only treat diseases when they occur": Knowledge, attitudes and practices to water-health in a rural Kenyan community (2011)