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Integrated water resources management

Natural resource management that follows a coordinated, cross-sectoral approach to the development and management of water, land, and related resources, so as to balance economic and social welfare with the sustainability of ecosystems.

Definition source: Global Water Partnership; UNEP (IWRM)

Synonyms

IWRM

Broader

Natural resource management

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_234 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_234
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_234)