Mapping of Collective Action Opportunities for Water Stewardship

<p>With this global mapping exercise, we attempted to identify catchments with stronger need and potential of Collective Action for Water Stewardship. On the &ldquo;need&rdquo; side we considered a selection of water and biodiversity risk layers from the <a href="https://riskfilter.org/">WWF Risk Filter Suite</a>. On the &ldquo;potential&rdquo; side we considered economic factors such as value of crop production, density of business facilities (assets), and potential for cross-industry collaboration. The result is a global map (or a shapefile) of collective action opportunities, highlighting 350 catchments, across 100 river basins and 7 regions of the world, where multiple NGOs and the private sector shall work together to accelerate collective action for water stewardship. See the interactive map <a href="https://panda.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=8d5c4bf6c6ff46c1a5c00e0b62e0b821">here</a>.</p> <p>This repository hosts all outputs as well as the input data of the mapping exercise.&nbsp;For transparency, reproducibility, as well as for future enhancements, the code is publicly available at <a href="https://github.com/rafaexx/collective_action_opportunities">https://github.com/rafaexx/collective_action_opportunities</a></p> <p>Final outputs are basically the shapefiles in&nbsp;<strong>output/summarise_geo/shp/*</strong>&nbsp; as well as the list of&nbsp; basins in&nbsp;<strong>output/summarise_geo/3_prioritization/hybas6_list_basins_collective_action.xlsx</strong></p> <p>For more details see part III of the report <a href="https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/unpacking-collective-action-in-water-stewardship.pdf">Unpacking Collective Action in Water Stewardship: Shared Solutions for Shared Water Challenges</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>