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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 ...
GEO Africa data portal and AEO data working group, 17-20 November 2003, UNEP, Nairobi: meeting report
(UNEP, 2003)
The Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) initiative is designed to support the Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) process. Among other things, the initiative aims to strengthen organizational networking and capacities ...
Sustainable tourism: the tour operator's contribution
(UNEP, 2003)
This publication showcases efforts to promote environmentally friendly and social responsible tourism in the tour operator's sector. Over 30 case studies, grouped in the key business areas of supply chain management
Towards a global tree conservation atlas: mapping the status and distribution of the world's threatened tree species
(UNEP, 2016)
This summary document outlines the need for spatial data on tree species as a tool for conservation action. It introduces plans for a tree species mapping programme that will build on the forest mapping information management ...
Global Environment Outlook: Small Island Developing States : Outlook - GEO SIDS
(2014)
GEO SIDS Outlook is a contribution to the 2014 Third International UN Conference on Small Island Developing States, which has an overarching theme of the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States through ...
In the front line: shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
(UNEP, 2006)
The tragic and devastating consequences of the Asian tsunami, December 2004 , and the hurricanes and cyclones of 2005 were a wakeup call for the global community, dramatically drawing attention to the dangers of undermining ...
The importance of mangroves to people: a call to action
(UNEP, 2014)
Mangroves are a type of tropical forest, uniquely positioned at the dynamic interface of land and sea. They are found along coasts and estuaries throughout the tropics and subtropics and are capable of thriving in salt water
Climate for Life - Our Planet November 2014
(UNEP, 2014)
The interaction between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas are the focus of this issue of Our Planet. Protected areas are important carbon storage facilities, so their maintenance and expansion is a key ...