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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Turkey

    Changes in the way water is used in one part of a river basin often affect how water is used somewhere else in that basin. This report introduces the concept of hydronomic ( hydro water + nomus management) zones that were developed to help untangle some of the complexities of basin-wide water resource use.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Turkey

    Describes the use of a distributed hydrologic model to evaluate different data scenarios. The study attempted to answer questions such as; what will happen to the basin water resources if a)there is a change in climate; b)it is decided that more water must be retained in the river for environmental reasons; c)more water is extracted for urban and industrial use; d)the timing and accounts used for water are changed?

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Oceania, Africa, Western Asia, Northern Africa, Central America, South America, Caribbean

    This paper on Water for Rural Development is divided into two parts. The first part outlines the most important issues from IWMI's point of view on water for rural development, with a focus on developing countries. This part identifies, discusses and provides recommendations for key areas for interventions in water resources development and management in the context of rural development. The second part of the document provides analyses of present and future water resources in the World Bank's defined regions.

  4. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2002
    Jordan
  5. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2002
    Azerbaijan
  6. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2002
    Bahrain
  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2001
    Western Asia, Northern Africa, Syrian Arab Republic

    Arid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are widely thought degraded. Characteristic of these areas is a preponderance of unpalatable shrubs or a lack of overall ground cover with a rise in the associated risks of soil erosion. Migrating pastoralists have been the scapegoats for this condition of the range. State steppe interventions of the last forty years have reflected this with programs to supplant customary systems with structures and institutions promoting western grazing systems and technologies.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    United Kingdom, Netherlands, India, Turkey, Norway, Austria

    Genetic diversity is the basis of the ability of organisms to adapt to changes in their environment through natural selection. Populations with little genetic variation are more vulnerable to the arrival of new pests or diseases, pollution, changes in climate and habitat destruction due to human activities or other catastrophic events. The inability to adapt to changing conditions greatly increases the risk of extinction. Gene conservation management aimed to save adaptive genetic diversity should be based on the knowledge of the genetic basis of adaptation.

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