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Scientists from around the world have collaborated and produced a number of reports, publications and tools that contain insight into fresh water, great rivers and our understanding of these complex systems.
Ecosystem Services
Framework for Assessing the Viability of an Ecosystem Service Approach to Conservation [PDF]
The Nature Conservancy, The Natural Capital Project and WWF-US
Ecosystem Services: A Guide for Decision Makers
World Resources Institute, March 2008
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Fresh Water
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
WWF and The Nature Conservancy, 2008
FEOW is the first-ever comprehensive map and database describing the world's freshwater biodiversity.
The United Nations World Water Development Reports
2003 and 2006
Free-flowing rivers: Economic luxury or ecological necessity? [PDF]
WWF, February 2006
The Essentials of Environmental Flows [PDF]
IUCN, 2003
For more freshwater resources, visit our Freshwater Conservation Practitioner pages.
Photo credits (top to bottom, left to right): Rainwater courses through a bamboo forest in the watershed of the upper Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), Yunnan province, southwestern China © Ami Vitale
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