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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7222 Record No: H036510)
2 Tun, K.; Wilkinson, C. 2004. The GCRMN - Coordinating coral reef monitoring efforts for effective management. Naga, 27(1-2):40-41.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7222 Record No: H036511)
3 Gjertsen, H. 2005. Can habitat protection lead to improvements in human well-being?: Evidence from marine protected areas in the Philippines. World Development, 33(2):199-217.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H036860)
4 ADB. 2003. Water voices documentary series: water for all. Manila, Philippines: ADB. 1 DVD.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: DVD Col Record No: H037098)
5 Folke, C.; Carpenter, S.; Walker, B.; Scheffer, M.; Elmqvist, T.; Gunderson, L.; Holling, C. S. 2004. Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, 35:557-580.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7489 Record No: H038264)
6 Dayaratne, P.; Linden, O.; De Silva, M. W. R. 1995. Puttalam Lagoon and Mundel Lake, Sri Lanka: A study of coastal resources, their utilization, environmental issues and management options. Ambio, 24(7-8):391-401.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7500 Record No: H038373)
7 Perera, Nishanthi. (Ed.; Comp.) 2003. Alternative livelihoods through income diversification: An option for sustainable coral reef and associated ecosystem management in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) 99p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.9553 G744 PER Record No: H038807)
8 Wilkinson, C; Souter, D.; Goldberg, J. (Eds) 2006. Status of coral reefs in tsunami affected countries: 2005. Townsville, Queensland, Australia: Australian Institute of Marine Science. vi, 154p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 551.4637 G000 WIL Record No: H038808)
9 Souter, D.; Linden, O. (Eds.) 2005. Coral reef degradation in the Indian Ocean: Status report 2005. Kalmar, Sweden: University of Kalmar. Department of Biology & Environmental Sciences. CORDIO. 285p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 578.7789 G000 SOU Record No: H031235)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7551 Record No: H038903)
11 2006? World Map. Bangkok, Thailand: Asiaweek. 1 map.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: Map cabinet Record No: H039070)
12 Silva Atapattu, Sithara. 2006. The transformation of the shallow water coral communities of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka following temperature anomalies in 1998. Pakistan Journal of Oceanography, 2(1):23-40.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 578.7789 G744 SIL Record No: H039752)
13 USAID. 2000. Towards a water secure future: USAID’s obligations in water resources management for FY 2000. Washington, DC, USA: USAID. 82p. + Annexes.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 USA Record No: H040393)
14 Sehgal, R. 2006. Legal regime towards protecting coral reefs: an international perspective and Indian scenario. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 2(2): 183-195.
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041208)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 577 G000 KEL Record No: H041637)
16 World Bank. 2009. Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth: ecosystem based approaches to climate change. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, Environment Department. 91p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H034804)
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17 World Bank. 2010. World development report 2010: development and climate change. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 417p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042530)
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Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change—the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010. It explores how public policy can change to better help people cope with new or worsened risks, how land and water management must adapt to better protect a threatened natural environment while feeding an expanding and more prosperous population, and how energy systems will need to be transformed.The report is an urgent call for action, both for developing countries who are striving to ensure policies are adapted to the realities and dangers of a hotter planet, and for high-income countries who need to undertake ambitious mitigation while supporting developing countries efforts. A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now to tackle the substantial inertia in the climate, in infrastructure, and in behaviors and institutions; if we act together to reconcile needed growth with prudent and affordable development choices; and if we act differently by investing in the needed energy revolution and taking the steps required to adapt to a rapidly changing planet.In the crowded field of climate change reports, WDR 2010 uniquely: emphasizes development takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape and how to seize them proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.
18 World Bank. 2009. Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth: ecosystem based approaches to climate change. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, Environment Department. 91p. (World Bank Report 49313)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042531)
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The World Bank's mission is to alleviate poverty and support sustainable development. Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine these goals. Since the industrial revolution, the mean surface temperature of earth has increased an average 2 degree Celsius due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Most of this change has occurred in the past 30 to 40 years, and the rate of increase is accelerating. These rising temperatures will have significant impacts at a global scale and at local and regional levels. While it remains important to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse climate change in the long run, many of the impacts of climate change are already in evidence. As a result, governments, communities, and civil society are increasingly concerned with anticipating the future effects of climate change while searching for strategies to mitigate, and adapt to, its current and future effects. Global warming and changes in climate have already had observed impacts on natural ecosystems and species. Natural systems such as wetlands, mangroves, coral reefs, cloud forests, arctic and high latitude ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate-induced disturbances. Current efforts to address climate change focus mainly on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly through cleaner energy strategies, and on attempting to reduce vulnerability of communities at risk by improving infrastructure to meet new energy and water needs. This report attempts to set out a compelling argument for including ecosystem-based approaches to mitigation and adaptation as a third and essential pillar in national strategies to address climate change. The report is targeted at both Bank task teams and country clients. Such ecosystem-based strategies can offer cost-effective, proven and sustainable solutions contributing to, and complementing, other national and regional adaptation strategies.
19 Walker, B.; Salt, D. 2006. Resilience thinking: sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. 174p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.7 G000 WAL Record No: H042751)
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20 Payet, R.; Obura, D. 2004. The negative impacts of human activities in the Eastern African region: an international waters perspective. Ambio, 33(1-2):24-33.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8100 Record No: H044760)
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The complex interactions between human activities and the environment at the interface of land and water is analyzed with a focus on the Somali Current (East Africa), and Indian Ocean Island States, subregions of the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA). These 2 subregions contain some of the world's richest ecosystems, including the high biodiversity forests of Madagascar and the diverse coastal habitats of the eastern African coast. These ecosystems support local communities and national and regional economies. Current and future degradation of these systems, from water basins to continental shelves, affects the livelihoods and sustainability of the countries in the region, and long-term efforts to reduce poverty. The assessments determined that pollution and climate change are the primary environmental and social concerns in the Islands of the Indian Ocean, while freshwater shortage and unsustainable exploitation of fisheries and other living resources are the primary environmental and social concerns in East Africa. The GIWA approach, through assessing root causes of environmental concerns, enables the development of policy approaches for mitigating environmental degradation. This paper explores policy frameworks for mitigating the impacts, and reducing the drivers, of 3 environmental concerns—freshwater shortage; solid waste pollution; and climate change—addressing social and institutional causes and effects, and linking the subregions to broad international frameworks. The common theme in all 3 case studies is the need to develop integrated ecosystem and international waters policies, and mechanisms to manage conflicting interests and to limit threats to natural processes.
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