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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 ...
Ecosystem and Human Well-Being - Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry
(World Resources Institute (WRI), 2005)
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is a four-year international scientific assessment of the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being. A multisectoral Board of Directors' consisting of senior representatives ...
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 ...
Ecosystem and Human Well-Being - A framework for assessment
(World Resources Institute (WRI), 2003)
Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework for Assessment is the first product of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a four-year international work program designed to meet the needs of decision-makers for scientific ...
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. ...
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board, 2005)
This report provides an assessment of the current state of our ecosystems and the many services they support and provide to people. Direct drivers of degradation of wetlands such as land conversion, pollution and infrastructure ...
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Desertification Synthesis
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board, 2005)
This report integrates findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessments related to current state and future trends of desertification and its impacts on ecosystems and human well-being and is organized around a set of key ...
GEO Brasil 2002
(IBAMA Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambientee dos Recursos Naturais Renovveis, 2002)
This report of the GEO Brazil Water Resources presents a set of essential information and recommendation for public policy formulation and implementation. It aims to promote sustainable access and conservation of water ...
Waste Account, Australia, Experimental Estimates
(Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013)
The Waste Account, Australia, Experimental Estimates, 2013 provides a series of experimental tables showing information on the generation and disposal of waste to landfills or to recycling facilities, the supply of recycled ...
UNEP emerging issues: global honey bee colony disorder and other threats to insect pollinators
(UNEP, 2010)
This report concludes that currently available global data and knowledge on the decline of pollinators are not sufficiently conclusive to demonstrate that there is a worldwide pollinator and related crop production crisis. ...