The note also promotes the urgent need for adaptation in the management of water.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

While there are many aspects to adaptation, better management of water resources is a good, maybe even the best, place to start.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.

UNESCO: Education

In developing the thematic area, UNESCO is a leader in the areas of: transboundary surface and groundwater, water quality, integrated water resource management and climate change adaptation and water.

UNESCO: at the Sixth World Water Forum

This conference and the workshops intent to provide solutions for effective and efficient global disaster and risk management and for climate change adaptation, which needs the involvement of all stakeholders of the public and the private sector.

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It provides a succinct overview of the key issues in water management and use in language accessible to diverse stakeholders involved in water adaptation.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The panel on Indigenous Knowledge noted the expanding recognition of indigenous and traditional knowledge as an essential building block for global sustainability in numerous domains such as biodiversity conservation and management, food security, natural disaster preparedness, climate change assessment and adaptation, amongst others.

UNESCO: Preparing the way to sustainable development after Rio+20: Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization