Building resilience into watersheds

FAO

Building resilience into watersheds

A sourcebook

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 144 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-137347-7

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Synopsis (short abstract) The purpose of this Sourcebook is to provide advice on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction and resilience building into the watershed management process. As an increasingly heavier toll is exerted on agriculture and food systems by drought, floods, wildfires, and other extreme events, adopting risk reduction and management practices must become an integral part of watershed management. While the steps involved to incorporate resilience building are similar to those routinely carried out in integrated watershed management, this Sourcebook stresses the importance of understanding disaster and climate risks, adopting a landscape approach and targeting vulnerable groups (e.g. women, youth, indigenous people, others) at all stages of planning and implementing watershed management.

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FAO. 2023. Building resilience into watersheds – A sourcebook. Rome

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc3258en

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