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A Commitment to the Future: Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1992)
Between 1974 and 1992 I gave more than 600 statements and lectures on various aspects of the environment to governmental meetings, scientific conferences, international gatherings and non-governmental organizations. This ...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)
This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ...
Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics : Summary Record - Environmental Economics Series Paper No.4
(1992-02)
The Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics was sponsored by UNEP in order to solicit expert advice on how the discipline of economics can assist UNEP better fulfil its catalytic, coordinating, consensus-building ...
The El Nino Phenomenon - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 8
(1992)
Places as far apart as Australia and North America, Peru and India are affected by recurrent climatic anomalies known as El Niño. Originating in the Pacific region, El Niño effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ...
Climatic Change and the Mediterranean: Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climatic Change and Sea-level Rise in the Mediterranean Region
(1992)
This book deals with the present-day environmental and demographic, economic and sociological trends in the Mediterranean area with particular emphasis on the possible impact of climatic change and corresponding sea-level ...
Glaciers and the Environment
(1992)
The aim of this publication is to make the knowledge we have gained about glaciers more widely known, and to emphasize the need to develop this knowledge. Glaciology holds one of the keys to our past. It may also hold many ...
Greenhouse Earth
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1992)
This book is an attempt to capture the messages in the reports from SCOPE and IPCC as well as some other information and in a way that is accessible to the non-expert reader. The ambition is also to provide the reader with ...
Implications of Expected Climate Change in the Eastern African Region: An Overview - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 149
(1992)
This paper reviews the results of a series of papers prepared by members of the Task Team on Implications of Climate Changes in the Eastern African Region, in cooperation with the Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme Activity ...
The Siren Number 45 - March 1992
(1992)
News from UNEP's Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme
The Costs Benefits and Unmet Needs of Biological diversity in Kenya
(1992)
This Report is concerned with assessing the nature and extent of Kenya's biodiversity, examining why and in what ways it is being changed over time, what the reasons are for that change, what measures need to be taken to ...