Why invest in watershed management?

 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2007

 



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Contents

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What are watersheds? (Download - 601 KB)

Services provided by watersheds (Download - 286 KB)

Risks and threats to watersheds (Download - 280 KB)

Collaborative watershed management (Download - 244 KB)

Watershed economics (Download - 187 KB)

Watershed governance and policies (Download - 174 KB)

Matters of scale (Download - 175 KB)

Investing in our future (Download - 551 KB)