Grow in Concert with Nature: Sustaining East Asia’s Water Resources through Green Water Defense

  Available online: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/06/2 [...]

This study will assess advances in management practices, institutional and technological innovations for managing water scarcity sustainably under a changing climate. The impetus for this analysis comes from the World Bank’s concept note ‘Towards Green Water Defense (GWD) in East Asia’ study, specifi cally one of the building blocks of the GWD concept: Managing water scarcity by “producing more with less” or increasing water productivity and reducing undesirable externalities.

Language(s): English

Tags: Water ; Climate change ; Water accessibility ; Water management ; Precipitation ; Green economy ; Case/ Case study ; Australia ; Israel ; Spain ; China ; Region II - Asia Add tag

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 Green Water Defense for Flood Risk Management in East Asia (2012)