World Resources Institute

Amazon Forgotten Fishes. How the remarkable diversity of freshwater fishes is critical to people, rivers and forest

Across the vast sweep of the Amazon Basin, thousands of rivers, streams and floodplain lakes flow in an immense, interconnected waterscape— home to an unparalleled diversity of freshwater fishes. More than 2,700 species have so far been recorded, with dozens more added each year...

Self-Governance of Common-Pool Resources Under Rapid Urbanisation: The Case of Lake Hawassa, Ethiopia

Contemporary common-pool resource (CPR) theories recommend self-governance as an effective management approach. This article investigates the implications of rapid urbanisation on CPR self-governance, using Lake Hawassa in Ethiopia as a case study. Drawing on semi-structured inte...

A Semi-Empirical Method for Estimating All-Sky Photosynthetically Active Radiation from Sentinel-2 for High-Resolution Land Surface Analysis

Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is a fundamental driver of terrestrial photosynthesis and a key input for light use efficiency-based estimates of gross primary productivity (GPP). However, existing PAR products are typically designed for regional to global applications...