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December 2013

The Institutionalization of River Basin Management as Politics of Scale – Insights from Mongolia

Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier)

River Basin Management (RBM) as an approach to sustainable water use has become the dominant model of water governance. Its introduction, however, entails a fundamental realignment and rescaling of water-sector institutions along hydrological boundaries.

November 2020

Metropolitan Dar es Salaam: Participatory River Basin Planning

World Bank Group
The main objective of this report is to understand how a variety of developing and emerging economies are successfully utilizing horizontal integration—across multiple infrastructure sectors and systems—at the metropolitan scale to deliver greater sustainability. This report explores how integrated planning processes extending well beyond city boundaries have been financed and implemented in a diverse group of metropolitan areas.
June 2018

River Basin Management and Fiscal Decentralisation: Mutually supportive or counterproductive? - A case study of Mongolia

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
The River Basin Management and Fiscal Decentralisation: Mutually Supportive or Counterproductive? paper finds that at the sub-national level, a high number of actors are involved in water governance. Despite a broad division of labour, a high level of overlap exists in terms of data management; monitoring water resources, water uses and law implementation; law enforcement; and to a certain degree the implementation of measures among these actors.
June 2015

An Economic Valuation of a Large-scale Rangeland Restoration Project through the Hima System in Jordan

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)
This paper presents an ex-ante cost-benefit analysis of large-scale rangeland restoration through the Hima system within the Zarqa River Basin, drawing on experience from a pilot initiative by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture since 2010. The ecosystem services that arise from rangeland restoration are valued using a combination of stated preference, avoided costs, replacement cost, and market prices approaches.
January 2012

Biophysical Assessment and Monetary Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Scenario Analysis for the Case of Water Purification in Europe

European Commission
This study presents a framework for the valuation of ecosystem services related to conservation policies, both theoretically and practically, in order to make an economic case for the conservation of biodiversity. Theoretically, it is shown that the application of monetary valuation techniques is instrumental to the outcomes of models. Practically, the case study covers the valuation of water purification in the Northern Mediterranean region.
June 2016

Enhancing water resources management through inclusive green economy- The case of Lake Victoria Basin

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Lake Victoria in East Africa, the world’s second largest lake, is endowed with abundant water and other natural resources.

November 2016

Pilot Ecosystem Account for Laguna de Bay Basin

Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES), World Bank Group, Laguna Lake Development Authority
This technical report, Pilot Ecosystem Account for Laguna de Bay Basin , explores the specific challenges confronting natural resource management in the Laguna de Bay Basin, and presents the key findings of the ecosystem account developed between January 2014 to December 2015.
March 2018

2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The 2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water, proposes an innovative response to water resource management challenges: nature-based solutions (NBS). It focuses in particular on water for agriculture, sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality.
March 2018

2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water (French Version)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The 2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water, proposes an innovative response to water resource management challenges: nature-based solutions (NBS). It focuses in particular on water for agriculture, sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality.
March 2018

2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water (Spanish Version)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The 2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water, proposes an innovative response to water resource management challenges: nature-based solutions (NBS). It focuses in particular on water for agriculture, sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality.

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