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GEO Scenarios Framework
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2004)
UNEP's Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of the global environment, a review of policy responses and an outlook on the future. This report introduces the scenario ...
Environmental Problems of Marine and Coastal Area of Bangladesh: National Report. UNEP Regional Seas Report and Studies No. 75
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1985)
As a first follow-up activity to decision 11/7 of the governing council, the Executive Director of UNEP convened, in cooperation with South Asian cooperative Environment programme (SACEP), a meeting on national focal points ...
Framing the Flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2010)
Marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems are complex and characterized by different outcomes and by the potential of rapid change, they present also linkages and tradeoffs among services, which is the reason that we cannot ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Faroe Plateau, GIWA Regional Assessment 13
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA), 2012)
The Faroe Islands are situated on a shelf in the North Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by a number of important ?shing grounds. The climate is strongly a?ected by the North Atlantic Current and frequent passage of cyclones. ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Mekong River, GIWA Regional assessment 55
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2006)
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Mekong River region which comprises parts of Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Rapid economic development and population growth are increasing the ...
GEO Ciudad de Mexico : 2003
(UNEP, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente y el Centro de Investigacion en Geografia y Geomatica, 2003)
This report is a part of the GEO cities project and is a tool that seeks to enhance the decision making process and promote strategic action. It was prepared within the PSIR framework -Pressure, State, Impact and Response. ...
Environmental Problems of East African Region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 012
(1982)
Decision 8/13 (C) of the eighth session of the governing council of UNEP called for the development of an action plan for the protection and development of marine and coastal environments Of East African region. As a result, ...
Regional Synthesis Report on the Policy, Legal, Regulatory and Institutional frameworks in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), 2009)
The main purpose of the report is to provide baseline knowledge of the gaps in the legal, policy, regulatory and institutional frameworks for dealing with Land-based Sources and Activities (LBSA) issues in the Western ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Arctic Greenland, East Greenland Shelf, West Greenland Shelf, GIWA Regional Assessment 1b, 15, 16
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, UCC-Water, NERI-Denmark, 2004)
Globally, people are becoming increasingly aware of the degradation of the world's water bodies. The need for a holistic assessment of transboundary waters in order to respond to growing public concern and provide advice ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Canary Current, GIWA Regional Assessment 41
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2012)
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Canary Current region, which covers the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem and the river systems draining into it. The region has several drainage systems of both national ...