| Titre : | Valuing Rivers: How the Diverse Benefits of Healthy Rivers Underpin Economies |
| Auteurs : | Stuart Orr, Auteur ; Hannah Baleta, Auteur ; Marc Goichot, Auteur ; Amy McCoy, Auteur ; Alexis Morgan, Auteur ; Laura Turley, Auteur ; Aaron Vermeulen, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Rapport |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : VWF, 2018 |
| Collection : | VWF Report |
| Format : | 67 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | P1 (Conservation - Généralités) |
| Mots-clés : | Fleuve ; cours d'eau ; Service écosystémique ; delta ; Zone humide |
| Résumé : |
This report outlines how the traditionally narrow view of rivers as primarily sources of water and power puts other critical benefits at risk, from freshwater fisheries to natural flood protection for cities and sediment flows that keep the world’s deltas above the rising seas.
While these directly benefit hundreds of millions of people, they are often overlooked and remain a low priority for decision makers – until they disappear and crises occur. The report shows how this short-sighted approach that has proven costly across the globe and could result in even greater economic losses in the future. Already, 19 per cent of global GDP comes from watersheds with high or very high water risk, while most of the world’s great deltas – including the Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Nile and Yangtze – are sinking and shrinking. |
| En ligne : | awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_valuing_rivers__final_.pdf |
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