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Integrated Assessment: Mainstreaming Sustainability into Policymaking - A Guidance Manual
(2009)
This guidance manual provides support in using Integrated Assessment as a tool for mainstreaming sustainability into policymaking processes (policies, plans and programmes). In doing so, it uses international experiences ...
Protecting the Environment from Land Degradation: UNEP's Action in the Framework of the Global Environment Facility
(2005)
Land degradation is worldwide in geographic extent and global in its environmental and socio-economic impacts. Drylands that are particularly vulnerable to land degradation occupy 41% of Earth's land. More than two billion ...
Development of an Action Plan for the Environment Initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): Health And Environment
(2003)
The thematic workshop on health and the environment for the finalization of the Action Plan for the Environment Initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's Development was held in Dakar, Senegal, 17-18 February 2003. ...
Ecosystems and Human Well-being : Our Human Planet - Summary for Decision-makers
(2005)
The assessment focuses on the linkages between ecosystems and human well-being and, in particular, on "ecosystem services." An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the nonliving ...
Environmentally Sound Management of Lake Erhai and the Xi'er River Basin
(2000)
This report is the integrated result of the investigations, analyses, and syntheses carried out in the area by relevant departments of the Country, in cooperation with international agencies. It reports on the outcome of ...
European Stakeholder Meeting on Sustainable Consumption and Production: Meeting Report and Co-chairs' Summary
(2005)
The meeting was organised in response to the call of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Plan of Implementation for the development of a 10-year framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, ...
Implementation of Policy Response Packages to Promote Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Confronting Sustainability in the Mining Sector Role for a Sustainability Fund
(2003)
The present study offers a detailed analysis of the Sustainability Fund proposal and investigates the answers to the aforementioned questions. Sustainability is basically seen at a local level, and the analysis is directed ...
Industry as a Partner for Sustainable Development: Coal
(2002)
The purpose of the report is to provide policy-makers, NGOs and coal industry members with information on the progress of the coal industry in implementing sustainable development principles for preparation of the World ...
Sustainability Indicators:A Scientific Assessment - SCOPE 67
(Island Press, 2007)
This volume emerged as an outcome of the Assessment of Sustainability Indicators project, again implemented jointly by SCOPE and UNEP, together with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental ...
Water: A Key for Sustainable Development in Africa - Key Issues and Constraints
(2001)
As elsewhere on our planet, water is the key natural resource throughout Africa. An adequate supply of clean water is the most important precondition for sustaining human life, for maintaining ecological systems that support ...