Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "water"
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2006 Green Korea: A Beautiful Environment and a Healthy Future
(2006)The most important value of the 21st century is the Sustainability that integrates the environment, economy, and society, and the environment is particularly important in that the quality of life is interconnected with the ... -
2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey
(Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2012)The 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (2011 UDHS) was designed as a follow-up to the 1988/89, 1995, 2000-01 and 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys. The main objective of the 2011 UDHS was to obtain current ... -
A manual for water and waste management: what the tourism industry can do to improve its performance
(UNEP, 2003)This manual provides guidelines and examples of how tourism operations can achieve positive results and minimize harm to a community's ecological and physical systems. Specific case studies highlight larger hotel chains, ... -
A trip with drip the water drop
(UNEP, 2005)A learning-by-doing workbook on water for children, 'A Trip with the Drip - The Water Drop, is a colourful workbook and CD contain basic facts, and other interesting information. -
Africa water Atlas
(UNEP, 2010)This Atlas is a visual account of Africa's endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104 satellite images as well as some 500 graphics and hundreds of compelling photos. However the Atlas is more ... -
Africa's lakes: Atlas of our changing environment
(UNEP, 2006)Water is vital for our survival. Africa is the second largest and the second most populous continent after Asia. It is endowed with both natural and artificial lakes and is home to some of the largest lakes in the world. ... -
After the Tsunami: rapid environmental assessment
(UNEP, 2005)This report is the product of close cooperation between UNEP and national environmental authorities and experts. It provides a preliminary ground-level look at the tsunami's impact on various sectors of the regions ... -
Amazon Basin: GIWA regional assessment
(UNEP, 2004)The Amazon Basin is the largest basin on the planet and also one of the least understood. Its drainage area covers more than one third of the South American continent, and its discharge contributes almost one fifth of ... -
Annuaire sur l’Environnement et les Ressources Naturelles du Sénégal
(Ministère de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable - Senegal, 2013)Toujours engagé résolument dans une dynamique réelle d’élaboration et de mise en oeuvre de politiques et programmes dont l’objectif ultime est d’améliorer durablement les conditions et le cadre de vie des populations, le ... -
Annuaire sur l’Environnement et les Ressources Naturelles du Sénégal Deuxième édition
(Ministere de I'Environnement, de la Protection de la Nature, des Bassins de Retention et des Lacs Artificiels (MEPNBRLA) - Senegal, 2009)Le Sénégal s'est engagé résolument dans une dynamique réelle d'élaboration et de mise en oeuvre de politiques et programmes dont l'objectif ultime est d'améliorer durablement les conditions et le cadre de vie des populations. ... -
Arctic Report Card: update for 2012 (NOAA 2012)
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012)What's new in 2012? New records set for low snow extent and sea ice extent, and for widespread ice sheet melting, despite air temperatures - a key cause of melting - being unremarkable relative to the last decade. Multiple ... -
Assessment of environmental hot Spots in Iraq
(UNEP, 2005)It is estimated that Iraq has several thousand contaminated sites resulting from a combination of general industrial activities, military activities, post-conflict damage and looting. Many of the sites are derelict and ... -
Atlas of Our Changing Environment: Zambia
(UNEP, 2013)The Zambia Atlas of Our Changing Environment is one way of increasing awareness on environmental trends and is a call to all for improved management of our natural resources. The Atlas aims at providing scientifically-based ... -
Awards for improving the coastal environment: the blue flag example
(UNEP, 2006)This publication describes how tourism can be better integrated with the coastal environment through an award scheme that has done much to improve environmental awareness in coastal areas. The first part of the publication ... -
Balancing economic development and protecting the cradle of mankind - Lake Turkana basin: UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - June 2013
(2013)A number of transboundary water agreements exist in Africa. However, many of these agreements are limited to larger basins such as the Nile, Niger, Senegal or Volta. There are very few international river basin agreements ... -
Barbados' Green Economy Scoping Study
(UNEP, 2014)The inclusion of green policy objectives in Barbados can be traced to the National Strategic Plan (2006-2025) and the Budget Speech of 2007. The process was given further impetus in 2009 when the then Prime Minister laid ... -
Barents Sea - GIWA Regional Assessment 11
(UNEP, 2004)This report presents the results of the UNEP/GIWA assessment for the Barents Sea region. -
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: an environmental review
(UNEP, 2008)This report is about the environmental measures that were introduced during the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. This included waste management, cleaner transport systems and water treatment, as well as new urban green belts ... -
Blue carbon: first level exploration of blue carbon in the Arabian Peninsula
(UNEP, 2012)Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian ... -
Blue harvest: inland fisheries as an ecosystem service
(UNEP, 2010)This report focuses on the importance of inland fisheries as an ecosystem service that significantly contributes to food production and livelihoods in many parts of the world but at the same time depends upon a sustained ...
