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Action Plan for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the Southeast Pacific - Brief Information
(1997)
The Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the Southeast Pacific, approved in 1981 by a Plenipotentiaries Conference, as well as the Convention for the Protection of the Marine ...
Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Response to Future Climatic Conditions in the Marine And Coastal Regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, and the Northeast Coast Of South America - CEP Technical Report 22
(1993)
This study emphasizes the marine and coastal environment and addresses the implications of climatic change in the Intra-Americas Sea and its environs. To facilitate understanding the technical terms of this report, a ...
The Impacts of Climate on Fisheries - UNEP Environment Library No. 13
(1994)
This volume of the UNEP Environment Library summarizes the potential implications of climate change and variability on fisheries and on the societies that depend on them. It is based on a review of several fisheries case ...
Climate Change 1995 : The Science of Climate Change - Contribution of WGI to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)
The IPCC Scientific Assessment Working Group (WGI) was established in 1988 to assess available information on the science of climate change, in particular that arising from human activities.
Environmental Risk and Commercial Banks: Discussion Paper
(1994)
The purpose of this discussion paper is to provide lenders -- particularly lenders that have recently begun to address environmental issues -- with a "snapshot" of some key issues. It begins with an overview of current and ...
Climate Change and Human Health: An Assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme
(1996)
This book covers the subject of climate change to the full extent possible, given current scientific knowledge. It is intended to assist and promote further international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding ...
Climatic Change in the Intra-Americas Sea: Implications of Future Climate on the Ecosystems and Socio-economic Structure in the Marine and Coastal Regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas and the Northeast Coast of South America
(Edward Arnold, 1993)
This book provides the first expert and comprehensive account of the implications that global warming and sea-level rise will have on the ecosystems and socio- economic structure in the marine and coastal regions of the ...
Pachamama: Our Earth, Our Future
(1999)
This book is a perfect introduction for young people to the environmental challenges that await us in the 21st century. Based on the United Nations Environment Programme's authoritative Global Environment Outlook, it ...
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 ...
Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Policy - Proceedings of the Second World Climate Conference
(1990)
The primary goals of the Conference were: To formulate recommendations for the continuing World Climate Programme, taking into account the report of the IPCC, with a primary goal of insuring that authoritative scientific ...