Vision for Water and Nature: A World Strategy for Conservation and Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the 21st Century : Compilation of All Project DocumentsIUCN, 2000 - 223 pages The Vision for Water and Nature is the "environment and ecosystems" component of the World Water Vision exercise of the World Water Council. It represents the first meaningful attempt to fully integrate environment issues into the development of a comprehensive strategy for water resource management at the global level. The vision was developed by IUCN through an extensive consultation effort based on three thematic workshops on freshwater ecosystem management and social, economic and environmental security, respectively. Instead of considering the environment as one of many water management sub-sectors, IUCN's consultations led it to emphasize the crucial role of ecosystems as the basis of our life support systems, without which security cannot be achieved and sustained. The vision also proposes a plan of action to help us achieve the sustainable world we envision in 2025. |
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... Agriculture to Agriculture Agriculture to Non - agriculture Non - agriculture Non agriculture to Non agriculture to Agriculture Arizona 42 22 33 3 California 35 26 37 2 Colorado 10 75 14 1 New Mexico 41 47 10 2 Utah 34 24 Wyoming 24 73 ...
... agricultural land and the change in proportion of forest cover . Since it will not support either forests or agriculture , the area of the Antarctic was subtracted from the total land area of the planet when calculating the global ...
... agriculture has occurred because the increase in yield of rain - fed agriculture grows faster than that of irrigated crops . This reduces the rate of water use for agriculture because irrigated lands , while accounting for an important ...