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Global Assessment of the Vulnerability of Water Resources to Environmental Change
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2005)
This a framework used to assess the vulnerability of surface and groundwater to human land uses, within an integrated river basin management approach. In Africa, the project has provided significant baseline information ...
Environment Outlook in the Amazonia - GEO Amazonia
(UNEP, 2009)
Over a decade, UNEP has carried out a series of integrated environmental assessments, called GEO, aimed at providing comprehensive, scientifically credible, and policy-relevant assessments on the interaction between ...
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Policy Responses, Volume 3
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board, 2005)
This report examines the strengths and weaknesses of various policy response options that have been used to manage ecosystem services, as well as identifying policy and management options for improving human well-being ...
Farming the flow: innovative approaches to understand, protect and value ecosystem services across linked habitats
(UNEP, 2010)
This publication presents a framework for an understanding of the connectivity between tropical coastal ecosystems (including mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs) ac- ross environmental, economic, social, and management ...
Carbon and biodiversity: a demonstration Atlas
(UNEP, 2008)
The demonstration atlas, launched at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, shows that areas high in both carbon and biodiversity do exist and can be identified by ...
Applying cleaner production to multilateral environmental agreements: a training kit
(UNEP, 2006)
This Global Status Report will address the 3 specific MEAs (global climate, hazardous wastes and POPs). After a general introduction on Multilateral Environmental Agreements, from each specific MEA the main objectives and ...
The last stand of the gorilla: environmental crime and conflict in the Congo basin
(UNEP, 2010)
Gorillas, the largest of the great apes, are under renewed threat across the Congo Basin from Nigeria to the Albertine Rift: poaching for bushmeat, loss of habitat due to agricultural expansion, degradation of habitat from ...
Regional Indicators Revision 2011 - ILAC
(UNEP, 2010)
The present publication presents regional data drawn from the indicators used in the Latin American and Caribbean Initiative for Sustainable Development (known by its Spanish acronym ILAC). This set of indicators covers, ...
Assessment of Transboundary Freshwater Vulnerability in Africa to Climate Change
(UNEPWater Research Commission, 2014)
Managing the freshwater impacts of climate change in Africa is as much a political and development challenge as a technical climate change challenge. Even without climate change, many of Africa’s water resources are facing ...
State of the Environment Report : Uganda : 1996
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1996)
This 1996 report was organized along the issue - pressure state- response framework. This report highlights the key issues under the themes land resources, water resources, and aquatic ecosystems, and biodiversity. The key ...