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Caribbean Environment Outlook
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2004)
Over the last three decades, environmental degradation and the unsustainable use of natural resources have reduced the availability of ecosystem goods and services, with negative consequences for sustainable social and ...
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(, 1999)
The Caribbean Environment Outlook (CEO) is part of a UNEP project to produce state of the environment assessments for the countries of the Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands. The objective of the CEO is ...
Protecting arctic biodiversity: limitations and strengths of environmental agreements
(UNEP, 2010)
The Arctic region is characterized by some of the largest continuous intact ecosystems on the planet, but is facing increasingly larger threats. These threats include the full range of stressors known from other parts of ...
Comprehensive options assessment for sustainable development of infrastructure
(UNEP, 2012)
Comprehensive Options Assessment (COA) can play a critical role towards sustainable development by ensuring that societal needs are met by the most appropriate solutions with minimum impact to the environment. Thus ...
Water in a Green Economy
(UNEP, 2011)
This chapter identifies the contributions that water can play in assisting a transition to a green economy. It makes the case for early investment in water management and infrastructure to make greater use of biodiversity ...
The use of economic instruments in environmental policy: opportunities and challenges
(UNEP, 2004)
This report seeks to help policy makers, especially in the developing world, to identify, evaluate and apply economic instruments to address a country's environmental problems within its national and local circumstances. ...
Pro-poor tourism: harnessing the world's largest industry for the world's poor
(UNEP, 1997)
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, generating an estimated 11%1 of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employing 200 million people and transporting nearly 700 million international travellers per year a ...
Sustainable development and the future of mineral investment
(UNEP, 2000)
The book aims to reach a wide audience or readers to help explore and analyse how the principles of sustainable development can be extended to mineral enterprises. The content of the book has been maintained at mainly a ...
Promoting cleaner production investments in developing countries
(UNEP, 2000)
This report shows how cleaner production provides a practical way of moving towards sustainable development.
Pacific Integrated Island Management : principles, case studies and lessons learned
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)
This document is supported by an illustrated synthesis and electronic materials for use in communicating and promoting use of Integrated Island Management approaches. These products are designed to raise awareness of ...