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Marine Protected Areas: Securing Benefits for Sustainable Development - Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)
Marine protected areas offer one of the best options for maintaining or returning ocean and coastal ecosystems to healthy conditions, particularly when developed as part of a wider management system. Ecological benefits ...
Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)
This planet and its people face a growing number of challenges. They are as diverse as our cultures and environments, but they can all be tackled through a combination of science, policy and action. The Frontiers 2017 ...
Oceans: Marine Pollution: Keep the Oceans Clean - SDG Policy Brief No. 001
(2017)
Marine pollution is the result of deliberate or accidental discharge of untreated wastewater, dumping of solid wastes and other polluted runoff from a variety of land-based activities directly into our rivers and coastal ...
Gender Mainstreaming in the Management of the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems. UN Environment Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 212
(2019)
This report aims to make a small contribution to the above challenge by compiling practical cases of marine and coastal management from different regions that have integrated a gender perspective in their design, implementation ...
State of the Marine Environment in Antarctica - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 129
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1990)
The better understanding of the changing problems facing the marine environment is a continuing goal of UNEP's ocean programme, as it provides the necessary scientific background for shaping UNEP's policy towards the ...
Regional Seas Programme in Latin America and Wider Caribbean - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 22 Rev. 2
(1985)
Since the Regional Seas Programme was initiated in 1974, action plans for the Mediterranean, Kuwait Action Plan Region, West and Central Africa, Wider Caribbean, East Asian Seas, South-East Pacific, South Pacific, and Red ...
Conference Report of the ‘GEF International Waters Science Conference 2012’ (IWSC 2012) : Setting the International Waters Science Agenda for the next Decade
(2012-09-26)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the UNDP/UNEP Global Environment Facility (GEF) IW:LEARN program and numerous partners held the first Global Environment ‘GEF International Waters Science ...
Marine Environmental Centres: Mediterranean
(1985)
This directory was compiled under auspices of a UNEP financed protect as a product of ASFIS. FAQ circulated institution register forms to marine environmental centres in the region as identified by the UNEP Mediterranean ...
The Law of the Sea and the Mediterranean
(1991)
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea contains the global framework necessary for the protection and preservation of the marine environment and the development of its resources. Like all treaties, the Convention ...
The Law of the Sea and the Indian Ocean
(1991)
The oceans are under stress from growing coastal populations, rapid industrialization and over-consumption of resources. Many people in the coastal zone depend on its waters for their livelihood. Paradoxically, coastal ...