Forward to the future: a conceptual framework for water dependence

Article Abstract:

A conceptual framework for water dependence and a simplified holistic view of humankind's environmental predicament are discussed by Malin Falkenmark, Volvo Environment Prize Lecturer, 1998, and professor emeritus, Natural Science Research Council and senior scientist, Stockholm International Water Inst. and Dept. of Systems Ecology, Stockholm Univ., with the information that the developing world is undergoing escalation of water stress, of pollution, and of proneness to dispute. Global food availability will be increasingly threatened, and upstream biomass production will threaten those downstream and impose on them a need to set up remediation systems with resultant disputes and loss of biodiversity in riparian wetlands.

United States, Sweden, Scandinavia, Africa, Industrialized Countries, Developing Countries, Health aspects, Statistical Data Included, Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries, Agricultural industry, Economic aspects, International aspects, Political aspects, Pollution, Human beings, Human-environment interactions, Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Natural resources, Fresh water, Water pollution, Rivers, Humans, Industrial nations, Water resources development, Water resource development, Wetlands, Biomass, Transcript, Food supply, Population geography, Water consumption, Rain and rainfall, Rain, Coastal ecology

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Participatory conservation approaches for Satoyama, the traditional forest and agricultural landscape of Japan

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Conservation efforts in Japan are being successfully implemented to preserve satoyama, the country's traditional landscape mixture of wet rice paddy fields, forests, villages, and grasslands. These efforts have curbed rapid loss of satoyama to industrial and residential development.

Japan, Strategy & planning, Public affairs, Social aspects, Planning, History, Nature conservation, Landscape changes, Company business planning, Forest ecology, Agriculture, Primitive, Traditional agriculture

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