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Assignment Task: VALUING RIVERS: HOW THE DIVERSE BENEFITS OF HEALTHY RIVERS UNDERPIN ECONOMIES
Please answer the questions in complete and coherent sentences, and elaborate on your reasoning and thinking. Make sure to give specific examples of case studies or projects.
Question 1: What does "valuing rivers" mean in the context of this paper? How do the authors of this report think that "valuing rivers" is highly important for the societies, nations, governments and the global economy? In answering this question, evaluate the Rivers in the Economy (RitE) paradigm of the WWF.
Question 2: What should an ideal and widely/diversely beneficial river management plan encompass? Explain.
Question 3: What are some of the characteristic features of most productive rivers?
Question 4: In what ways are dams and hydropower projects detrimental to river basins, their ecosystems and their natural health, and how do they affect the people, particularly those living downstream from them?