Search
Now showing items 51-60 of 189
Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Pacific Islands region, which comprises more than 20 Island nations or territories that exhibit enormous geomorphological, climatic, cultural and demographic diversity within ...
Tourism and biodiversity: mapping tourism's global footprint
(UNEP, 2003)
Tourism is often described as the world's largest industry on the basis of its contribution to global gross domestic product (GDP), the number of jobs it generates, and the number of clients it serves. The scale of the ...
Transboundary diagnostic analysis (T.D.A.) for the Mediterranean sea
(UNEP, 2005)
The purpose of conducting a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) is to scale the relative importance of sources and causes, both immediate and root, of transboundary waters problems, and to identify potential preventive ...
GEO Year Book 2007
(UNEP, 2007)
The GEO Year Book 2007 is essential, informative, and authoritative reading for anyone with a role or an interest in our changing environment. The 2007 Year Book includes global and regional overviews of significant ...
World resources 2002-2004 : decisions for the earth : balance, voice, and power
(UNEP, 2003)
World Resources 2002-2004 examines how we make environmental decisions and who makes them, which is the process of environmental governance. The report argues that better environmental governance is one of the most direct ...
World Heritage and Protected Areas - Our Planet Vol. 14 No. 2
(2003)
The United Nations Foundation has become the first funding organization to designate the elite World Heritage sites as the explicit focus of its biodiversity work. The increased resources and vigour that it has brought to ...
Energy, Finance and Climate Change - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 3
(2006)
Investment that takes account of environmental, social and governmental issues both makes economic sense and meets the wider and deeper goals so many of us espouse.
Tunza vol. 3 no. 4: oceans and coasts
(UNEP, 2006)
UNEP magazine for youth.
Green Cities - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 1
(2005)
The battles to eradicate poverty and deliver the Millennium Development Goals will be won or lost by whether we can manage the urban environment effectively and creatively. If we can – as the examples of Dar es Salaam and ...
Tunza vol. 3 no. 1: green cities
(UNEP, 2005)
UNEPs magazine for youth.