Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "West Africa"
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Ecologically sensitive sites in Africa. Volume 4: West Africa
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1993)This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ... -
Environmental Accounting of National Economic Systems: An Analysis of West African Dryland Countries within a Global Context
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2012)The work evaluates implications of countries’ natural resource use on economic systems. Detailed environmental accounting is provided for 134 national economies with a special focus on five dryland countries of the West ... -
Environmental Accounting of National Economic Systems: An Analysis of West African Dryland Countries within a Global Context - Summary for decision makers
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2012)The work evaluates implications of countries’ natural resource use on economic systems. Detailed environmental accounting is provided for 134 national economies with a special focus on five dryland countries of the West ... -
Global International Waters Assessment: Canary Current, GIWA Regional Assessment 41
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2012)This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Canary Current region, which covers the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem and the river systems draining into it. The region has several drainage systems of both national ... -
Instruments of Change: Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development
(1998)This book is an eloquent expression of how market based instruments can indeed contribute to protecting the natural environment and thereby achieving sustainable development. Instruments of Change examines the use of ... -
Land health surveillance: an evidence-based approach to land ecosystem management in the West Africa Sahel
(UNEP, 2012)This report presents the concepts of land health surveillance a science based approach to land health assessment and monitoring. The approach is modelled on evidence-based approaches used in the public health sector, where ... -
Methodology for Assessment and Control of Coastal Erosion in West and Central Africa: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 107
(1989)The objectives of the manual are: i) to present scientific information necessary to understand the formation and dynamic behaviour of coastal sedimentary features; and ii) to allow the national experts in each country of ...