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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 ...
Leveraging expertise of civil society in developing countries: communication programme of methyl bromide synthesis report 2004
(UNEP, 2004)
This publication presents the saga of the unique efforts of these NGOs from developing countries. Methyl bromide, a soil fumigant, was included as a controlled substance under the Montreal Protocol in 1997 when for the ...
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 ...
Guide for national ozone officers
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2006)
This guide introduces and summarises the many important issues about the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer that a National Ozone Officer (NOO) needs to know to perform his/her job effectively. ...
Industrial Sources of Marine and Coastal Pollution in the East African region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 7
(1984)
Regional seas reports and studies.
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 ...
Protecting coastal and marine environments from land-based activities: a guide for national action
(UNEP, 2006)
This handbook provides guidance for environmental managers and policy makers on how to implement the GPA in their own countries. In this revision it is stressed that, to be successful, institutional, financial, legislative, ...
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 ...