http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.siwi.org/publication/agriculture-water-and-ecosystems/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/agriculture-water-and-ecosystems/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:23 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/agriculture-water-and-ecosystems/ This Policy Brief covers the past agricultural management that has caused wide scale changes in land cover, streamflow, and groundwater systems and what actions that are needed in order to repair damage and lessen future negative impacts of climate change. In the future, agriculture will have to strike a balance between the water required for food and the water needed to keep ecosystems healthy.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/agriculture-water-and-ecosystems/feed/ 0 http://www.siwi.org/publication/resilience-going-from-conventional-to-adaptive-freshwater-management-for-human-and-ecosystem-compatibility/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/resilience-going-from-conventional-to-adaptive-freshwater-management-for-human-and-ecosystem-compatibility/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:34:06 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/resilience-going-from-conventional-to-adaptive-freshwater-management-for-human-and-ecosystem-compatibility/ This Policy Brief highlights the need for water management to incorporate complexity and uncertainty and introduces the concepts of “resilience” and “adaptive co-management.” It emphasises the need to go from conventional to ecosystem-oriented adaptive freshwater management.

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