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Korea Environmental Policy Bulletin - Establishment of the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR)
(Ministry of Environment - Korea Environment Institute - Republic of Korea, 2008)
Ministry of Environment (MOE) opened the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) to support the sound management and conservation of biological resources and to train new taxonomists. The institute currently ...
State of the Environment Report - 2008 - Egypt
(Ministry of State For Environmental Affairs - Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 2008)
The State of Environment Report -2008 of the Arab Republic of Egypt, issued for the fifth year successively as a significant step of the political environmental commitment of Government of Egypt “GoE”. This comes in the ...
Draft Zambian Standard - Plastics - Film sheeting
(Zambia Bureau of Standards, 2008)
This draft Zambian standard has been prepared by the Plastic Carrier Bags and Flat Bags Technical Working Group constituted by the Environmental Council of Zambia, in collaboration with the Zambia Bureau of Standards. This ...
Resource Augmentation by Tapping Renewable Resources and by Utilizing Waste in Viet Nam
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2008)
Rapidly growing countries are facing challenges on two fronts. Firstly, they need to ensure continuous availability of resources to support rapid industrialization and improved living standards. Secondly, they have to ...
The costs and benefits of forest protected areas for local livelihoods: a review of the current literature
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008)
Protected areas could play a significant role in the implementation of schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries, through either the strengthening of the existing protected ...
Working Toward High Seas Marine Protected Areas. An Assessment of Progress Made and Recommendations for Collaboration
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), BirdLife International, 2008)
The purpose of this report is threefold: ( 1 ) to summarise current efforts aimed at protecting marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
The linkages between biodiversity and climate change mitigation :A review of the recent scientific literature
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008)
This report reviews the literature published since the IPCC 4AR on the linkages between biodiversity and climate mitigation policies in order to highlight developments in our understanding of the role of biodiversity in ...
Regional strategy for coral reef management in South Asia
(Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER), 2008)
South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) initiated specific programmes to d al with the management and conservation issues by establishing the South Asia Coral Reef Task Force (SACRTF). In the first meeting of ...
Protected Areas of the World: a review of national systems. Vol 4: Nearctic and Neotropical
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008)
The present work. Protected Areas of the world: A review of national systems, is the first attempt by WCMC to compile a world-wide survey of protected area systems. The book is organised into national (or occasionally ...
Regional communication strategy for coral reef management in South Asia
(Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER), 2008)
Coastal and marine ecosystems support very rich speciecs diversity in south Asia as the region has numerous estuaries, lagoons, mangrove areas, coral reefs, sea-grasses and coastal wetland that provide essential habitats ...