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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 and the Mediterranean: Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climatic Change and Sea-level Rise in the Mediterranean Region
(1992)
This book deals with the present-day environmental and demographic, economic and sociological trends in the Mediterranean area with particular emphasis on the possible impact of climatic change and corresponding sea-level ...
Report of the International Conference on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Impacts - Hanoi, Vietnam 9-10 November, 1991
(1991)
The expressed aims of this conference were to promote scientific exchange and the formation of collaborations between scientists from many different disciplines and countries who share an interest in the impacts of climate ...
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 ...
Glaciers and the Environment
(1992)
The aim of this publication is to make the knowledge we have gained about glaciers more widely known, and to emphasize the need to develop this knowledge. Glaciology holds one of the keys to our past. It may also hold many ...
Global Digital Datasets for Land Degradation Studies: a GIS Approach - GRID Case Study Series No. 4
(1991)
This report describes GRID's work in assembling the core data sets used in the production of the global and regional sections of the thematic atlas. Its aim is to serve as a source of background information rather than as ...
Greenhouse Earth
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1992)
This book is an attempt to capture the messages in the reports from SCOPE and IPCC as well as some other information and in a way that is accessible to the non-expert reader. The ambition is also to provide the reader with ...
Handbook of Environmental Law
(1997)
This Handbook is intended to be a handy reference book of up-to-date information on environmental law. It provides a source of quick and easy reference for governments, institutions, NGOs and the public needing to use basic ...
Implications of Expected Climate Change in the Eastern African Region: An Overview - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 149
(1992)
This paper reviews the results of a series of papers prepared by members of the Task Team on Implications of Climate Changes in the Eastern African Region, in cooperation with the Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme Activity ...
Earth and Us: Population-Resources-Environment-Development
(1991)
There are very close and intricate interrelationships between population, resources, environment and development. Changes in one affect the others, positively or adversely. Some of these changes are immediately visible, ...