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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. ...
Environmental Policy in Estonia
(European Parliament, 1998)
In terms of environmental policy, Estonia faces the problem of the legacy of the Soviet era and obsolete industries, while at the same time - in common with most of the CECs it has valuable and untouched natural areas. ...
Recovery and recycling systems guidelines: phasing out ODS in developing countries, refrigeration sector
(UNEP, 1999)
The objective of these guidelines is to help developing country governments and industry design and establish recovery and recycling systems and operate them efficiently.
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 ...