Publications

UNU-INWEH research outputs and knowledge products

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UNU-INWEH publications are available in the UNU Collections repository. Use the links below to access specific publication types.

 

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UNU-INWEH Annual Reports
  

Policy Briefs

Policy Brief

Policy Brief

Best Practices in Global Vaccination Roll-Out to Reduce Health Inequity

20 Oct 2026

UNU-INWEH Policy Brief - Groundwater Use in Transboundary Aquifers

Policy Brief

Why Groundwater Use Location Matters in Transboundary Aquifers

19 Oct 2026

Antimicrobial resistance water systems

Policy Brief

Antimicrobial Resistance in Water Systems

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Policy Brief

Employing Domain-Informed AI for Energy Planning and Decarbonization under Uncertainty

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Policy Brief

From Carbon Accounting to Net Cooling: Securing the Albedo-Carbon Double Win in Canada’s Boreal Forest

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Policy Brief

Strengthening England’s Heat Resilience: From Warnings to Long-Term Adaptation

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Policy Brief

The Water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus

14 May 2026

by Mahmut Bozarslan (VOA)

Policy Brief

من النزاع إلى السلام: نزع سلاح حزب العمال الكردستاني والإمكانات البيئية للسلام في الشرق الأوسط

15 Apr 2026

Farmer in the Hwange District, Zimbabwe Photo by Charles Nhemachena.

Policy Brief

Digital Agriculture and AI for Climate-Resilient Smallholder Farming in Zimbabwe

09 Mar 2026

Onder-Papegaaiberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Policy Brief

Accelerating Progress on the Water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus in Sub-saharan Africa

15 Dec 2025

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Policy Brief

Ji Şer Ber bi Aştîyê: Bêçekkirina PKK’ê û Potansiyala Kesk a Aştiyê li Rojhilata Navîn

01 Nov 2025

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Policy Brief

Çatışmadan Barışa: PKK'nın Silahsızlanması ve Orta Doğu'da Barışın Yeşil Potansiyeli

01 Nov 2025

by Mahmut Bozarslan (VOA)

Policy Brief

From Conflict to Peace: The PKK’s Disarmament and the Green Potential of Peace in the Middle East

12 Sep 2025

African women water leadership

Policy Brief

Women in Africa’s Water Leadership: Numbers Don’t Lie

11 Sep 2025

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Policy Brief

Expandir el Riego Podría Mejorar la Nutrición Infantil, Pero Conlleva el Riesgo de un Uso Insostenible del Agua

29 Aug 2025

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Policy Brief

L’Expansion de l’Irrigation Pourrait Améliorer la Nutrition des Enfants, Mais Comporte des Risques

29 Aug 2025

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Policy Brief

Expanding Irrigation Could Enhance Child Nutrition but Risks Unsustainable Water Use

24 Jun 2025

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Policy Brief

Building a Global Minerals Trust for a Just Green Transition

05 Jun 2025

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Policy Brief

Beyond Planting Trees: Taking Advantage of Satellite Observations to Improve Forest Carbon Management and Wildfire Prevention

06 May 2025

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Policy Brief

Implementing the IDAWM Framework to Enhance Agricultural Water Management in the African Union

05 Apr 2025

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Policy Brief

Doubling Down on African Hydropower Might Lock Investments in Inefficient and Risky Infrastructure

24 Nov 2023

Incident Briefs

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Research Brief

The July 2026 Wildfires in Canada and Their Transboundary Smoke Problem

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Research Brief

Damage Assessment of Afghanistan's August 2025 Earthquake

18 Sep 2025

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Research Brief

Building Damage Assessment of the March 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

16 Jun 2025

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Research Brief

The May-June 2025 Central Canada Fires: National Challenges of a Warming Climate and Cascading International Impacts

12 Jun 2025

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Research Brief

January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires: Once-in-a-Generation Events Now Happen Frequently

27 May 2025

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Research Brief

Helene disaster: The threat of poor management and climate change to human lives and assets

26 Nov 2024

Research Reports

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Report

Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

03 Jun 2026

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Report

Critical Minerals, Water Insecurity and Injustice

29 Apr 2026

Women fetching water

Report

Water Quality: A Mirror and Magnifier of Structural Inequalities and Social Injustice

14 Apr 2026

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Report

DER GLOBALE WASSERBANKROTT

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Report

Global Water Bankruptcy

20 Jan 2026

The Worst Drought in Decades Hitting Syria's Recovery

Report

THE DROUGHT-MIGRATION- CONFLICT NEXUS Was the Syrian Civil War Really Caused by Climate Change?

18 Dec 2025

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Report

Gender Imbalance: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Gender-Inclusive Representation in Global Environmental Governance

25 Nov 2025

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Report

Water Inequity in Global Agricultural Trade

27 Aug 2025

Unmasking the unseen

Report

Unmasking the Unseen: The Gendered Impacts of Water Quality, Sanitation and Hygiene

02 Mar 2024

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Report

The Future of Freshwater in Canada

15 Dec 2023

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Report

The Hidden Environmental Cost of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin Mining Impacts Climate, Water and Land

24 Oct 2023

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Report

Inequity Behind Levees: The Case of the United States of America

05 Sep 2023

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Report

Global Water Security 2023 Assessment

23 Mar 2023

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Report

Global Bottled Water Industry: A Review of Impacts and Trends

16 Mar 2023

Expert Commentaries

Water is a strategic investment opportunity for climate action.

Article

Water Is Not Just A Victim Of Climate Change—It’s Part Of The Solution

09 Nov 2026

Sinkholes (obruk) in farmland near Konya, Türkiye, caused by groundwater over-extraction for irrigation

Article

Massive sinkholes open up across Türkiye as it struggles with drought and climate change

30 Oct 2026

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Article

Water Bankruptcy—Why Economic Growth Must Be Decoupled From Water Use

29 Oct 2026

Water Security and Justice

Article

Water Bankruptcy Is A Justice Challenge—Here Are 8 Reasons Why

20 Oct 2026

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Article

The Political Economy of Water Bankruptcy-Who Benefits and Who Pays

13 Oct 2026

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Article

Coolcations: tourism boom is taking a toll on chillier destinations

08 Oct 2026

UNU-INWEH Director Prof. Kaveh Madani at a Global Water Bankruptcy Report press conference in UN Headquarters, New York. January 20, 2026/UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Article

13 Misconceptions To Avoid When Trying to Understand Water Bankruptcy

06 Oct 2026

London / UK - July 10 2020: View of a jetty pier and downtown London from the River Thames, UK

Article

Water failures in England and Wales are a warning for Canada and the US

24 Sep 2026

Air quality alerts triggered in New York as Canadian wildfire smoke blankets Northeast

Article

Five Reasons Climate And Clean Air Action Is An Investment, Not A Burden

08 Sep 2026

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Article

A dual strategy of ecological restoration and smart forecasting for a flood-resilient Bangladesh

08 Aug 2026

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Article

Why the Spokane wildfires became so catastrophic

03 Aug 2026

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Article

The Caspian Sea has lost an area nearly the size of Sicily: human activities are a major reason why

22 Jun 2026

Journal Articles

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Spatiotemporal evaluation of landslide activity across pre- and post-wildfire phases: a data-driven framework

Journal Article

Dissecting land subsidence along United States coasts through hazard characterization and exposure disparities

Journal Article

3D Cellular Automata of Polymer Structural Response to Solvent Quality

Journal Article

Machine Learning-Based Probabilistic Modeling of Levee Breach Initiation Under Overtopping

Journal Article

BDA-KAN: Building damage assessment with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for rapid post-fire structural evaluation

Journal Article

Biomineralization-Assisted Valorization of Phosphogypsum

Journal Article

Global vaccine readiness: equity-by-design in pandemic preparedness and response

Journal Article

Tracing pacific ocean influence on California’s precipitation using structural similarity of changepoints and trends

Journal Article

AI and Global Water Bankruptcy: Opportunities and Challenges

Journal Article

To fix ageing water infrastructure, we must plan for an ageing population

Journal Article

AquaCrop modelling with frost risk in Southern Africa for bambara groundnut suitability and optimal planting dates

Journal Article

Rethinking Fatigue Design: Extending Service Life of Welded Assemblies and Reducing CO2 in Construction via Nanometallic Multilayers

Journal Article

Climate change both increases and decreases winter snowmelt across North America

Journal Article

A Critical-State Thermo-Elasto-Viscoplastic Model for Frozen Soils under Freeze–Thaw Cycles

Journal Article

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Outcomes of Participatory Contraceptive and Sexual and Reproductive Health Stigma-Reduction Workshops for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study

Journal Article

Reconstruction-Free EIT for Injection-Pattern Classification and Superficial Gas Velocity Regression as Proxies for Local Gas Holdup in Bubble Columns

Journal Article

Electron Beam Crosslinking as a Strategy for the Synthesis of Pectin/PVA Aerogels: Effect of Concentration and Radiation Dose

Journal Article

Advanced Micromolding Approach toward Scaling-Up Smart Hydrogel Microvalves

Journal Article

Enhancing river flow prediction accuracy in data scarce catchments using a time varying ensemble deep learning approach

Journal Article

Trends in HIV prevention outcomes among Northern and Indigenous adolescents: A repeated cross-sectional study of arts-based sexual health workshops in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Journal Article

Shadow pandemics: violence and vulnerability as part of the COVID-19 experience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Article

Longitudinal associations between condom use self-efficacy trajectories, HIV-related stigma, and HIV prevention engagement among refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda

Journal Article

Disrupting the Climate Distress Cascade: Testing Community-Grounded Theories of Change Using Secondary Data From a Cross-Sectional Canadian Study

Journal Article

A cybernetic framework for transformative food system change: sustainable landscape management in West and Central Africa

Journal Article

Hydrogel particles under uniaxial compression: Tetrapod-based DEM approach and experimental validation

Journal Article

Reclaiming Africa's lost potential: reflecting on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026

Journal Article

Global daily satellite-derived lake surface water quality dataset (2002–2022)

Journal Article

Trends of stillbirth, early neonatal and perinatal mortality rates and sociodemographic differentials of perinatal mortality rates in 17 low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study

Journal Article

Evaporation Dynamics From Flowing Water Surfaces

Journal Article

Invasive alien plants require management strategies tailored to city environments

Journal Article

The hidden women in the pixels: a gender-aware lens on Earth observation mapping of conflict related damage

Journal Article

Disclosure, stigma, and HIV care among sex workers and men who have sex with men living with HIV in Jamaica

Journal Article

The lingering impacts of COVID-19 on older women in Kenya and Uganda: A quantitative analysis of health, wellbeing, and WASH insecurity

Journal Article

Nested sovereignty: Necropolitics and the gendered burden of unpaid care and domestic work in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Article

Diverging hydrometeorological drivers of flashier floods in a warming climate

Journal Article

A Cost-Efficient Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Adaptive Process Analytics

Journal Article

Northward expansion of high-stature vegetation reveals net surface-cooling feedbacks in the majority of Canadian Boreal-Tundra ecozones

Other Publications

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Adapting to the Heat: Simple Actions to Protect Our Health During Heatwaves