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A situation report -The nature and extent of environmental crimes in Seychelles
(Institute for Security Studies, 2009)
This research was undertaken by the Environmental Crime Project (ECP) of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) as part of an eight-country study to determine the nature and extent of environmental crime in Eastern Africa. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Energy, Finance and Climate Change - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 3
(2006)
Investment that takes account of environmental, social and governmental issues both makes economic sense and meets the wider and deeper goals so many of us espouse.
Climate finance for cities and buildings: a handbook for local governments
(UNEP, 2014)
The objectives of this Handbook are to help raise awareness among local stakeholders regarding climate finance and its potential in the built environment, given the important role that this sector has to play in climate ...
SPREP Country Report - American Samoa
(South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 1980)
The American Samoa Government (ASG) is now in receipt of the Economic Development Plan 1979-1984 (EDP). It anticipates receipt in the near future of a companion document, the Quality of Life Plan (QLP). The recently complied ...
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 - 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 ...
SIDS in numbers
(Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), 2013)