Browsing Publications and Documents by SDGs "SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production"
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Eco-i Manual - Agri-food Supplement
(2017)This manual contains information specific to the agri-food sector supplementing the eco-innovation manual when working with companies in this sector. As agri-food is a resource intensive sector with significant adverse ... -
Eco-Innovation Application in Jordan: SwitchMed in Jordan - SwitchMed Programme [Factsheet]
(2020)Eco-innovation is the development and application of a business model, shaped by a new business strategy that incorporates sustainability throughout all business operations based on life cycle thinking and in cooperation ... -
Eco-Trails in Palestine: SwitchMed in Palestine - SwitchMed Programme [Factsheet]
(2020)While hiking and walking on nature trails is popular in Palestine, no clear guidelines on selecting and rehabilitating eco-trails is available. Under the EU-funded SwitchMed programme Palestine’s Environment Quality Authority ... -
Ecoinovação nos Pequenos Negócios
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Ecolabelling as a Potential Marketing Tool for African Products: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges
(2007)Ecolabelling entered mainstream environmental policy making in 1977, when the German government established the blue angel programme. since that time, ecolabels have become one of the more high- profile market-based tools ... -
An Ecological Catalyst for Vietnam’s Guava Farms - Eco-Innovation success story from Vietnam
(2017)On the banks of the Red River in northern Vietnam, the region’s guava fruit farmers face all manner of challenge to their businesses. Like elsewhere, the use of pesticides to protect trees from disease and chemical fertilizers ... -
The Ecological Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR): Formulation of an International Cooperative Programme - Report of an International Conference held in Rome
(1975)In May 1974 an expert consultation was held in Rome, sponsored jointly by FAO and UNEP, to advise on the formulation of an international programme on the ecological management of arid and semi-arid rangelands in Africa and ... -
Ecology and Environmental Protection in the Pacific Region
(1981)The main theme of the Congress, Natural Resources of the Pacific Ocean for the Benefit of Mankind, demonstrates an enormous interest in the Pacific region which is in many respects vitally important for mankind. This ... -
The Ecology of Fungi: Producers of Mycotoxins
(1985)Fungi are omnipresent organisms. There is no media where they are not present. Fungi have broad adaptive properties and therefore occupy most varied ecological niches which are most frequently inaccessible for other ... -
Economic and Financial Challenges to Scaling Up Sustainable Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire
(2018)Economic and Financial Challenges to Scaling Up Sustainable Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire proposes technical and financial solutions to scaling up sustainable cocoa production models at all levels of the cocoa production ... -
Economic Impact of the Effects of Pollution on the Coastal Fisheries of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Regions of the United States of America - FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.172
(1977)This report reviews and evaluates the economic impact on the fisheries of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States of other human activities. Four types of impact were considered: production of oil and ... -
Economic Instruments for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development - Environment Economic Series No. 16
(1994)This volume presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art on economic instruments for environmental management and sustainable development and reviews the experience of developed countries and its relevance to developing ... -
Economic Instruments for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: A Case Study on the Philippines’ Forestry Sector
(1999)This study reports on the outcomes of a collaborative undertaking—between UNEP, the Resources, Economics, Environment Center for Studies (REECS), the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the Economy and ... -
Economic Values and the Environment in the Developing World - Environmental Economics Series No 14
(1994)This volume assesses the state of the art in applying economic valuation techniques to environmental problems in developing countries. It is in fulfilment of a contract between the United Nations Environment Programme ... -
The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity - An Interim Report
(European Communities, 2008)Not all that is very useful commands high value (water, for example) and not everything that has a high value is very useful (such as a diamond). This example expresses not one but two major learning challenges that society ... -
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: TEEB for National and International Policy Makers
(2011)TEEB in national and international policy making presents a rich evidence base of policies and instruments in use around the world and a wide range of innovative solutions and is rapidly becoming an essential tool for ... -
Economics of Resource Efficiency
(2017)The International Resource Panel was established in 2007 to provide independent, scientific assessment on the sustainable use of natural resources and the impacts of resource use over the full life cycle. -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Selected Case Studies from Africa
(2019)Efforts to protect the environment can have a negative impact on people’s livelihoods if it does not increase livelihood options from the ecosystem. So how do we maintain a healthy environment as climate changes and at ... -
Ecosystems for water and food security
(UNEP, 2011)Against the current challenges to enhance food security worldwide, the publication aims at illustrating the importance of healthy ecosystems for the provisioning of key services that contribute to food security. Such ... -
The Ecosystems of Small Islands in the South West Pacific (The Sixth Expedition of the SS "Callisto") - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 151. SPREP Reports and Studies No. 63
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1994)