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Tourism and Coastal Resources Degradation in the Wider Caribbean
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1996)
This report of Tourism and Coastal Resources Degradation includes Island Resources Foundation’s assessment of the extent of coastal resource degradation due to tourism and recommends approaches to address this degradation ...
IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania
(International Union for Conservation ot Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), 1990)
The islands of the Pacific conjure up visions of warmth, beauty and colour set in a vast ocean ... a paradise captured in words by James Michener and Oscar Hammerstein. This image perhaps accounts for the fact that, for ...
Ecologically sensitive sites in Africa. Volume 4: West Africa
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
Caribbean Environment Outlook
(, 1999)
The Caribbean Environment Outlook (CEO) is part of a UNEP project to produce state of the environment assessments for the countries of the Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands. The objective of the CEO is ...
Wildland fires and the environment: a global synthesis
(UNEP, 1999)
Fire has been an agent of disturbance for thousands of years. Forest and wildland fires have occurred long before the advent of humans, shaping landscape structure, pattern and ultimately the species composition of ecosystems. ...
European plants in peril: a review of threatened plants in the European Community (1989)
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1989)
This booklet draws attention to the problems of habitat loss or degradation within the territory of the European Community and presents a selection of those plant species which are, as a consequence, under threat. It ...
A global overview of wetland and marine protected areas on the World Heritage List
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
This working paper provides a global overview of the current coverage of existing World Heritage sites with wetland and marine values and suggests potential wetland areas which may merit future nomination to the World ...
The West and Central African Action Plan: Evaluation of its Development and Achievements - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 101
(1990)
This report is an in-depth evaluation of the Action Plan for the protection and development of the marine and coastal environment of the West and Central African Regon, covering the preparatory activities leading to its ...
Marine Mammals Plan of Action: Evaluation of its Development and Achievements - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 102
(1988)
This document gives an overview of the objectives of the Global Plan Of Action for the Conservation, Management and utilization of marine mammals.
Oil Pollution Control in the East African Region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 10
(1982)
Dicusess oil production practices, how that may pollute, as well as other oil polluting sources