Influencing the global wetlands agenda

By: Mark Everard on 5th Jul 2017

The Ramsar Convention – in full The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat but also known as the Convention on Wetlands – is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.... Read more »

Categories: Blog Ecosystems University of the West of England Wetlands

Promoting water wisdom in Rajasthan

By: Mark Everard on 8th May 2017

As many of my previous IWSN blogposts have conveyed, the UWE team is forging strong links, publishing research and having some impact on water security issues in Rajasthan state, India. Three papers published to date focus on how promotion... Read more »

Categories: Asia Blog Ecosystems Groundwater India University of the West of England

Water, people and fish

By: Mark Everard on 20th Apr 2017

In early April, I had the pleasure of representing IWSN and the University of the West of England at the Mahseer 2017 International Workshop on Mahseer Conservation in Cochin, Kerala state (India), supported by the Mahseer Trust and a... Read more »

Categories: Asia Blog Ecosystems Fishing India University of the West of England

Water, people and tigers

By: Mark Everard on 5th Apr 2017

The blogpost Community-based regeneration in semi-arid north Rajasthan, India (23 November 2015) was the first in a series covering my work under the IWSN about efforts to reanimate socio-ecological landscapes in semi-arid Rajasthan, India. This is part of an... Read more »

Categories: Agriculture Asia Blog Ecosystems India University of the West of England

Engaging the public on issues affecting the Bristol Avon

By: Mark Everard on 27th Mar 2017

On the evening of 23 March, Mark Everard represented the IWSN at a Viewpoints event in Keynsham. The Viewpoints project entails a series of three open public meetings with scientists connected with the Bristol Avon talking about the river... Read more »

Categories: Blog Ecosystems University of the West of England

Conserving the Hampshire Avon

By: Mark Everard on 23rd Mar 2017

Celebrating World Water Day 2017, I represented the IWSN at the Annual River Avon meeting in Salisbury. The meeting was hosted by the Water team of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust (WWT), a county-based NGO (I am a member of... Read more »

Categories: Blog Ecosystems University of the West of England

IWSN Africa launches water security status report for the Kafue Flats

By: Bimo Nkhata, Machaya Chomba on 27th Feb 2017

IWSN researchers at Monash South Africa have produced a water security status report aimed at highlighting critical water security issues for the Kafue Flats, located in the Kafue River Basin of Zambia. The Flats are one of the key... Read more »

Categories: Africa Agriculture Blog Drought Ecosystems Groundwater Monash South Africa Nexus River basins Zambia

Is ‘resilience thinking’ the space outside the box?

By: Catherine (Kate) Pringle on 28th Sep 2016

South Africa is in the midst of a water crisis. Approximately 98% of available water has already been allocated and there are rising concerns about water quality. These issues are amplified in the face of the country’s worst drought... Read more »

Categories: Africa Blog Drought Ecosystems Resilience

Award-winning floating islands help treat wetlands

By: Yolandi Schoeman on 15th Aug 2016

Wetlands are miracles of nature. They provide us with so much more than just cleaner water. They provide ecosystem services, habitat for fish and other organisms, and a suite of edible resources to the human and animal communities that... Read more »

Categories: Africa Blog Ecosystems Monash South Africa

Diversity as a key element of urban resilience

By: Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Tamee Albrecht (MS) on 2nd Aug 2016

As climate change increases the frequency of storm events, flooding risk, prolonged drought, and other hazards, enhancing resilience becomes the goal of cities worldwide. How can societies prepare for and address a multitude of disturbances that can threaten the... Read more »

Categories: Blog Climate change adaptation Drought Ecosystems Flooding Groundwater Resilience University of Arizona