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SPREP Country Report - Cook Islands
(South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 1980)
The fifteen Cook Islands are distinguished by being vastly separated from each other and varying greatly in terms of their population numbers and resource endowments. The necessity therefore arises in this Country Report ...
State of Environment Report - Vanuatu
As part of the mid-term review of the implementation of the indicative programmes for Vanuatu the European Commission requires a Country Environmental Profile. The objective of this study is to provide decision makers in ...
SPREP Country Reports - Australia
This report follows a check-list and suggested format set out in South Pacific Commission (SPC) Savingram NO. 52. Australia has a Federal Constitution and in responding to the SPC.check-list a distinction needs to be made ...
Island Biodiversity – Island Bright Spots in Conservation & Sustainability
(Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2014)
Islands are taking action to effectively conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable livelihoods. Despite significant vulnerabilities facing islands, leaders of island countries and countries with islands have made ...
State of Environment Report - American Samoa
(American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency, 2002)
The 2002 State of Environment Report is a brief ' environmental report card' on the resources of the Territory. The report is designed to provide American Samoan residents and policy makers with a foundation to build their ...
Estratégia e Plano de Acção Nacional para o Desenvolvimento das Capacidades na Gestão Ambiental Global em Cabo Verde
(2007)
A ligação entre a Gestão Ambiental Global e o Desenvolvimento Durável é capital para um país como Cabo Verde. Os “cenários” de desenvolvimento humano e económico, tendo em conta a vulnerabilidade ambiental e no contexto ...
Global Mangrove Extent Much Smaller than Previously Estimated - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Services (GEAS) - October 2010
(2010)
As confirmed by the impacts of the December 2004 Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 intact mangroves help stabilize shorelines and thus protect lives and property from such natural disasters. They also provide ...
Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente Urbano - GEO Distrito Metropolitano de Quito
(Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) para el Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales –FLACSO Sede Ecuador, 2011)
Al describir la ocupación etnohistórica del actual Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, se constata que estas dinámicas datan del periodo pre-cerámico (10 000 a 4 000 años a. C.) caracterizado por una población nómada que ...
Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente Urbano - GEO Cuidad de Aguascalientes
(Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) para el Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustenable (SEMADESCU), México, 2013)
El informe ECCO Aguascalientes fue elaborado a partir de un proceso participavo incorporando los puntos de vista de los sectores publico y privado, de academicos, instituciones, organismos no gubernamentales y la sociedad ...
Small Island Developing States in numbers
(Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), 2013)
SIDS In Numbers provides, at a glance, a snapshot of some select key SIDS indicators grouped under the three dimensions of sustainable development