Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "water"
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Global International Waters Assessment: Oyashio Current-GIWA Regional Assessment 31
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2006)This report presents the results of the GIWA assessment of the Oyashio Current region-one of the most productive waters in East Asia. Changes in the hydrological cycle and ocean circulation have affected the productivity ... -
Global International Waters Assessment: Russian Arctic, GIWA Regional Assessment 1a
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA), 2012)This report presents the results of the Global International Waters Assessment for the Russian Arctic (GIWA region 1a), as determined during three workshops. The first Scoping and Scaling Workshop was held in Zvenigorod ... -
Global International Waters Assessment: South China Sea, GIWA Regional Assessment 54
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2005)This report presents the GIWA assessment of the South China Sea region, which lies in the global centre of tropical marine biodiversity and comprises nine nations: China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, ... -
Global International Waters Assessment: Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea, GIWA Regional Assessment 56
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2005)This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea region, which includes some of the land and sea areas of the three nations the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. The region is situated in the ... -
Global International Waters Assessment: Yellow Sea, GIWA Regional Assessment 34
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2005)This report presents the results of the GIWA assessment of the Yellow Sea region and the adjacent Bohai Sea sub-system. The Yellow sea is a semi-enclosed water body bordering the Chinese mainland to the west and the Korean ... -
Global International Waters Assessment_Sea of Okhotsk, GIWA Regional assessment 30
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2006)This report presents the results of the GIWA assessment of the Sea of Okhotsk region. Rapid population growth and economic development have led to increasing pollution loads in the Amur River basin the region's largest ... -
Green breakthroughs: solving environmental problems through innovative policies and law
(UNEP, 2008)This booklet is called Green Breakthroughs because it describes policies and laws that have been used effectively to solve environmental problems. Success stories are drawn from 45 individual countries, as well as from ... -
Green Cities - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 1
(2005)The battles to eradicate poverty and deliver the Millennium Development Goals will be won or lost by whether we can manage the urban environment effectively and creatively. If we can – as the examples of Dar es Salaam and ... -
Green economy: an analysis of challenges and opportunities
(UNEP, 2013)The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 marked the first time that the special characteristics of SIDS were paid significant attention and were recognized as a distinct group. In 1994, the first Global Conference on the ... -
Green growth, resources and resilience: environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2012)This report describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and ... -
Green hills, blue cities: an ecosystems approach to water resources management for African cities
(UNEP, 2011)Africa is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban areas. The urban population in Africa doubled ... -
Green infrastructure: guide for water management
(UNEP, 2014)Green Infrastructure (GI) is becoming increasingly recognized as an important opportunity for addressing the complex challenges of water management. The GI approach refers to the natural or semi-natural systems that provide ... -
Guidance manual for the regulating services of ecosystem
(UNEP, 2011)This manual is directed towards practitioners in the field of environmental economics, and designed as a supporting tool for estimating the economic value of regulating services. -
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
(UNEP, 2005)Integrated water resource management (IWRM) incorporating an ecosystem approach is a key building block for achieving the water, sanitation and human settlement targets of the Millennium Development Goals. It is evident ... -
Handbook on the implementation of conventions related to biological diversity
(UNEP, 2000)Biodiversity Implementation handbook -
Harvesting the heavens A manual for participatory training in rainwater harvesting
(UNEP, 2004)A manual for participatory training in the rain water harvesting. -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters : Latin America and the Caribbean
(UNEP, 2008)Water is a unique and vital resource, for which there is no substitute. In Latin America and the Caribbean, major rivers, lakes, and aquifers are shared by two or more countries. The region is characterized by the greatest ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters: Africa
(UNEP, 2006)This is the first report in a series of assessment reports in different geographic regions on hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the hydropolitical ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters: Latin America and the Caribbean
(UNEP, 2009)Water is a unique and vital resource. In Latin America and the Caribbean major rivers, lakes, and aquifers are shared by two or more countries. The region is characterized by the greatest availability of freshwater resources. ... -
Hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters: North America
(UNEP, 2009)The main problem in North America is the location of water resources relative to large population centers where the majority of the freshwater drains away from the bulk of the population. Climate variability and change is ...