Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "LAKES"
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The Changing Aral Sea - Foresight Brief No. 003 October 2017
(2017)The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest inland lake. Its hydrological balance is strongly determined by inflows from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers which are fed by glacial melt waters from the southwestern ... -
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Volume VIII: Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
(1998)The Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries was published for the first time in 1996. The 1996 Edition of the Compendium is produced in about four volumes. The first volume contains the framework environmental ... -
Conference Report of the ‘GEF International Waters Science Conference 2012’ (IWSC 2012) : Setting the International Waters Science Agenda for the next Decade
(2012-09-26)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the UNDP/UNEP Global Environment Facility (GEF) IW:LEARN program and numerous partners held the first Global Environment ‘GEF International Waters Science ... -
Data Book of the World Lake Environments: A Survey of the State of the State of World Lakes
(1987)This data book is the major output from a joint ILEC/UNEP project. Survey of the State of World Lakes. The International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC) and the Lake Biwa Research Institute (LBRI) are jointly responsible ... -
Data Book of World Lake Environments: A Survey of the State of World Lakes (1991 Report)
(1991)This is the fourth report from the Joint ILEC/UNEP project "Survey of the State of World Lakes", compiling geographical, limnological, socio-economic and environmental data on 38 lakes and reservoirs from Mongolia, Russia, ... -
Diagnostic Analysis of the Lake Xingkai/Khanka Basin (People's Republic of China and Russian Federation)
(2001)Lake Xingkai/Khanka is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast Asia, located on the border between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation. Its basin is a part of the WusulifUssuri-Heilong/Amur basin. ... -
Eutrosym ‘76: Proceedings the International Symposium on Eutrophication and Rehabilitation of Surface Water – Vol. IV
(1976)The participants in this meeting drew up draft recommendations concerning the protection of surface waters from eutrophication -
Gems-Water: Report of a Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment - Report Series No. 12
(1992-03-23)The workshop on water quality monitoring and assessment, held in Arusha, Tanzania from 23 March to 3 April 1992, mainly for the Nile riparian countries, is one of the many activities conducted during the first two years ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 2: Socio-Economic Aspects of Lake Reservoir Management
(1989)Contents: Utilization of Water Resources and Problems of Lake Management / T. Kira; Understanding of the state of the lake environment from a socio-cultural perceptive - an example of Lake Biwa, Japan / Y. Kada; Profile ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 3: Lake Shore Management
(1990)The scope of this book is to demonstrate the importance of the lake shore in a holistic lake management framework and discuss how the ecotone between lake and land can be maintained as an effective protection zone for the ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 7: Biomanipulation in Lakes and Reservoirs Management
(1995)This volume of the ILEC/UNEP guideline book series offers a general introduction to the role of biomanipulation in lake management with emphasis on the control of excessive algal growth in lakes suffering from eutrophication. ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 9: Reservoir Water Quality Management
(1999)This book was designed for use by anyone who is interested in reservoir water quality. The book specifically stresses reservoirs as opposed to lakes, however, reservoirs and lakes have much in common and reservoirs are ... -
Interactions of Biogeochemical Cycles in Aqueous Ecosystems Part 7
(1988)The SCOPE/UNEP International program of Studies on the Biogeochemical Cycles has four principal subjects: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Carbon and Sulphur. The study is being undertaken to find the major complex interactions between ... -
International Waters of the Middle East: From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile - Water Resources Management Series 2
(Oxford University Press, 1994)This book studies the three major river basins and address the many difficulties faced by countries in this region. While political differences often stand in the way of cooperation between countries, the contributors to ... -
Lake Urmia: Signs of Recovery - Foresight Brief No. 004 - November 2017
(2017)Lake Urmia, located in a mountainous region between the provinces of East and West Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran is one of the country’s most important ecosystems. Recent indications are that the lake is recovering. The ... -
Nile River Basin: Nile Basin Adaptation to Water Stress: Comprehensive Assessment of Flood & Drought Prone Areas
(2015)This report is a contribution to the UNEP project “Adapting to climate change induced water stress in the Nile River Basin”. It summarises the technical developments and assessments carried out under Work package WP1.1 ... -
Plan for Improving Observations Around Lake Victoria that Support Numerical Weather Predictions, Climate Services and Adaptation
(2019)This plan is the outcome of a workshop Improving the value chain from observations to climate services to support climate policy, adaptation and mitigation in East Africa held in Entebbe, Uganda on 31 October to 2 November ... -
The Pollution of Lakes and Reservoirs -UNEP Environment Library No. 12
(1994)This publication documents the state of the world's lakes and reservoirs, and suggests ways of managing them better. It insists that good management of the world's lakes and reservoirs depends on people understanding the ... -
Saving Lake Faguibine - Foresight Brief No. 001 - August 2017
(2017)The Faguibine system, located in the Tombouktou region in Mali is a series of five interlinked lakes (Télé, Takara, Gouber, Kamango and Faguibine). In the late 19th century the floodplain extended over an area of 1,000 ... -
The State of the Environment 1976
(1976)The report is based upon the viewpoints expressed in discussions with various members of the scientific communities on emerging environmental problems of wide international significance keeping in view the decisions of the ...