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A Methodology for Assessment and Mapping of Desertification - Report of the Kenya Pilot Study (FP/620 1-87-04)
(Government of Kenya (GOK) Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing, 1990)
This report presents the results of the joint Government of Kenya (GOK) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) project on the Evaluation of the FAO/UNEP Provisional Methodology for Assessment and Mapping of ...
After UNCED: Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Forest Principles in Asia and the Pacific: Report of the Workshop on the Follow-up to UNCED and Implementation of Forest Principles
(1995)
The overall objective of the Workshop was to review and assess the progress of Asia and Pacific countries in implementing the forestry related agreements reached at UNCED, particularly Chapter 11 of Agenda 21 ("Combating ...
Regional Implementation Annex for Central and Eastern Europe - Annex V
(1994)
The purpose of this Annex is to provide guidelines and arrangements for the effective implementation of the UNCCD Convention in affected country Parties of the Central and Eastern European region, in the light of its ...
Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa: Final Text of the Convention - Note by the Secretariat
(1994-09-12)
This final text of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa, following completion of the verification processes ...
Combating Global Climate Change by Combating Land Degradation: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya
(1995)
An International Workshop was held to consider land degradation in drylands and its management, particularly as it relates to carbon management as a means to combat global warming. Twenty specialists from nine countries ...
Combating Desertification in China
(1982)
In 1951, the Advisory Committee on Arid Zone Research was established within UNESCO to organize the first systematic investigations into problems affecting and lands. As time passed, some 200 desert research institutes ...
Combating Desertification Through Integrated Development - International Scientific Symposium
(1981)
This volume includes abstracts of papers presented at the International Scientific Symposium held under the aegis of the UNEP/USSR Project "Combating Desertification through Integrated Development". While being an integral ...
Problems And Prospects Desertification of Desertification Control in the ESCAP Region
(1983)
Desertification has always been one of the major environmental problems of the developing countries in Asia as well as Australia. To focus world attention on this serious problem, the United Nations Conference on Desertification ...
Development of a New Method of Desertification Evaluation of the Sahel Region : The Land Use Component is Analized by Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques 1950-1990 - Final Report of Stage 1
(1993)
The projects objective is to develop a method allowing for an evaluation of a possible environmental degradation occurred in various Sahelian countries in the last decades. In case this method (after improvement as recommended ...
Voices from the Desert
(1985)
Ancient civilizations that once reigned 40 over green and fertile lands are now ruins shrouded in shifting sands. These haunting silhouettes of tired stone serve as a reminder of a threat which, if not impeded, moves swiftly ...