Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "URBAN ENVIRONMENT"
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Air Quality Management and Assessment Capabilities in 20 Major Cities
(1996)This report assesses the components required for effective air quality management: the information inputs which are required for decision-making; how these inputs are used and how to measure their comprehensiveness, ... -
ASEAN environment programme III (ASEP III), 1988-1992: Phase III of the Regional Collaborative Programme on Environment of the ASEAN Countries
(1988)Mindful of the objectives adopted in the Manila Declaration on the ASEAN Environment on 30 April 1981 and the Bangkok Declaration on the ASEAN Environment on 29 November 1984, and recognizing the need for systematic ... -
Biological Diversity and the Urban Environment - Ecosystem Conservation Group Issue Paper
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2001)At its eighteenth session, held on 9 July 1998 at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAQ), in Rome, the Ecosystem Conservation Group (ECG) decided that the issue of biological ... -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions
(2013)This report examines the potential for decoupling at the city level. While the majority of the worlds population now live in cities and cities are where most resource consumption takes place, both the pressures and potentials ... -
Environmental Integrated Assessments for Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: GEO Cities Project
(2005)Within the framework of the GEO project and responding to the call of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment and activities related to the Johannesburg Summit, the GEO Cities project was launched in 2001 This project ... -
GEO Matters - February 2020
(2020-02)The following constitutes the key points of this issue: GEO-6 Emerges Winner of the 2020 Prose Category Excellence Winners; Environmental Science; PROSE Awards; Second Global Authors Meeting of the GEO for Cities; and GEO-6 ... -
GEO Methodology for City Environment Assessment: Working Manual [Chinese]
(2005)The battle for sustainable development, for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world, is going to be largely won and lost in our cities. -
India: State of the Environment 2001
(2001)This SoE assessment for India provides a sound basis for the development of action plans, the next stage of the planning process, as we enter the new millenium. The report aims to provide concrete guidance for action ... -
Liveable Cities: The Benefits of Urban Environmental Planning - A Cities Alliance Study on Good Practices and Useful Tools
(2007)This report, focusing on the urban challenge, brings together concrete case studies from cities around the world which are struggling, but also in many cases succeeding in tackling issues from waste and transportation to ... -
Rwanda : From Post-conflict to Environmentally Sustainable Development
(2011-11)This report presents a package of practical interventions to assist the ongoing metamorphosis of Rwanda’s economy. It calls for mobilizing and focusing investments in key areas, including ecosystem rehabilitation, renewable ... -
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
(2020)This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the report includes analysis of ... -
Urban Air Pollution - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No 4
(1991)In almost all developing countries, meanwhile, urban air pollution is worsening. Rapidly growing cities, more traffic on roads, use of dirtier fuels, reliance on outdated industrial processes, growing energy consumption, ... -
Working Paper: Framework Elements for Assessing Urban Environmental Performance
(2012)Effective development of city-regions is a major challenge and requires reliable and pertinent indicators to guide planners’ actions and monitor progress. The large number of ‘green city’ and ‘sustainable city’ indices ...