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Environmental impacts of trade liberalization and policies for the sustainable management of natural resources: a case study of India's automobile sector
(UNEP, 1999)
This is a case study of India's Automobile sector to find the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation and policies for sustainable resource management.
State of the Environment Report - Cook Islands
(The Regional Ervionmental Technical Assistance (RETA) Proiect, 1993)
This State of the EnWonment Report provides a description of the environment covering elements of the Cook lslands' physical and biological features, and demographic and economlc features, environmental issues prevailing: ...
Availability of Biodiversity Information for East Africa
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1992)
The project AvailabUity of Biodiversity Information for East Africa came about in response to the need for a systematic review of the data holdings for the region in support of conservation and sustainable development. ...
Global overview of the conservation of migratory Arctic breeding birds outside the Arctic
(CAFF, 1998)
This report focuses on migratory waterbirds that breed in Arctic, as defined by CAFF member states, and migrate to winter quarters outside CAFF countries. It investigates those international mechanisms (conventions, ...
GESAMP: Pollutant Modification of Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes and Climate: Some Aspects of the Problem - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 117
(UNEP, 1990)
Regional Seas Reports and Studies to provide advice relating to the scientific aspects of marine pollution , to prepare periodic reviews and identify problems.
Tourism and Coastal Resources Degradation in the Wider Caribbean
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1996)
This report of Tourism and Coastal Resources Degradation includes Island Resources Foundation’s assessment of the extent of coastal resource degradation due to tourism and recommends approaches to address this degradation ...
IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania
(International Union for Conservation ot Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), 1990)
The islands of the Pacific conjure up visions of warmth, beauty and colour set in a vast ocean ... a paradise captured in words by James Michener and Oscar Hammerstein. This image perhaps accounts for the fact that, for ...
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 ...
Wildland fires and the environment: a global synthesis
(UNEP, 1999)
Fire has been an agent of disturbance for thousands of years. Forest and wildland fires have occurred long before the advent of humans, shaping landscape structure, pattern and ultimately the species composition of ecosystems. ...
A global overview of wetland and marine protected areas on the World Heritage List
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
This working paper provides a global overview of the current coverage of existing World Heritage sites with wetland and marine values and suggests potential wetland areas which may merit future nomination to the World ...