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Africa Mountains Atlas
(UNEP, 2014)
The mountains of Africa provide water and food, rich biodiversity, recreational areas and serve as important centres of cultural integrity and heritage. However, Africa faces growing challenges in ensuring the sustainable ...
GEO-6: Global Environment Outlook: Regional assessment for Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) Regional Assessment for Asia and the Pacific paints a comprehensive picture of the environmental factors contributing to human health and well-being at the regional level. Backed ...
GEO-6: Global Environment Outlook: Regional assessment for North America
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)
The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) Regional Assessment for North America paints a comprehensive picture of the environmental factors contributing to human health and well-being at the regional level. Backed by a ...
Integrated assessment of the impact of trade liberalization on the rice sector, UNEP country projects round III: a synthesis report
(UNEP, 2005)
This document provides a synthesis of the integrated assessment studies conducted in the third, most recent, round of country projects commissioned by UNEP, which focused on the rice sector. Over the past two years, UNEP ...
Africa Environment Outlook 2: our Environment, our wealth
(UNEP, 2006)
The main focus of the AEO-2 report is on sustainable livelihoods and the environment. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as assets for the continent's development. It highlights the potential of the ...
Tourism and biodiversity: mapping tourism's global footprint
(UNEP, 2003)
Tourism is often described as the world's largest industry on the basis of its contribution to global gross domestic product (GDP), the number of jobs it generates, and the number of clients it serves. The scale of the ...
Transboundary diagnostic analysis (T.D.A.) for the Mediterranean sea
(UNEP, 2005)
The purpose of conducting a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) is to scale the relative importance of sources and causes, both immediate and root, of transboundary waters problems, and to identify potential preventive ...
GEO Year Book 2007
(UNEP, 2007)
The GEO Year Book 2007 is essential, informative, and authoritative reading for anyone with a role or an interest in our changing environment. The 2007 Year Book includes global and regional overviews of significant ...
World resources 2002-2004 : decisions for the earth : balance, voice, and power
(UNEP, 2003)
World Resources 2002-2004 examines how we make environmental decisions and who makes them, which is the process of environmental governance. The report argues that better environmental governance is one of the most direct ...
World Heritage and Protected Areas - Our Planet Vol. 14 No. 2
(2003)
The United Nations Foundation has become the first funding organization to designate the elite World Heritage sites as the explicit focus of its biodiversity work. The increased resources and vigour that it has brought to ...