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A new UN University report highlights the peril of irreversible tipping points for both people and the planet

Interconnected Disaster Risks Report 2023: The looming threat of irreversible tipping points

Posted on 26 Oct, 2023 07:54 AM

A United Nations University report released this week finds that drastic changes are approaching if risks to our fundamental socioecological systems are not addressed.

The risk tipping point is when an ecosystem loses key species that are strongly connected, triggering cascading extinctions of dependent species, which can eventually lead to the collapse of an entire ecosystem. (Image: UNU)

Introduction to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) - Open courseware from the United Nations University (UNU)

A course that provides a brief historical background and overview of IWRM

Posted on 19 Feb, 2011 11:13 PM

This introductory course on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), from the United Nations University (UNU), provides a brief historical background and overview of IWRM and gives an overview of the various aspects of IWRM, from integration, capacity building to applications and case studies.

IWRM has been defined by the Global Water Partnership (2000) as a process, which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. An important aspect of any IWRM program is therefore, research, planning and action at the river basin level.

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