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The Lake Chad Conventional Basin: A Diagnostic Study of Environmental Degradation
(1990)
The Lake Chad Conventional Basin: A Diagnostic Study of Environmental Degradation summarizes the symptoms of environmental "ill health" in the basin, such as erosion of formerly productive lands, overused groundwater, loss ...
Assessment and Monitoring of Climatic Change Impacts on Mangrove Ecosystems - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 154
(1994)
As mangroves are one of the most prominent coastal ecosystems in tropical and many subtropical areas around the world, it is likely that the impact by climate change on mangroves will have greater economic and social ...
The Siren Number 45 - March 1992
(1992)
News from UNEP's Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme
Water for Sustainable Development in Africa: Key Issues
(1995)
Part 1 of the following report focuses on the main objectives, targets and priority activities for Africa of the many Agenda 21 recommendations on waiter resources. It starts with a summary of the overall objective for ...
The Costs Benefits and Unmet Needs of Biological diversity in Kenya
(1992)
This Report is concerned with assessing the nature and extent of Kenya's biodiversity, examining why and in what ways it is being changed over time, what the reasons are for that change, what measures need to be taken to ...
Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Variations and Policy Responses in Brazil
(1992)
This study is an attempt to understand the direct and indirect interactions between climate and society in Brazil. A set of climate impact case studies were identified and experts were selected to undertake these assessments. ...
Preliminary Guidelines for Assessing Impacts of Climate Change
(1992)
This report aims to provide preliminary guidelines on methods of climate impact assessment. It outlines a basic framework for the study of climate-environment-society interactions, with a particular emphasis on assessing ...
The Global Climate System: Climate System Monitoring June 1986-November 1988
(1991)
This report, the third biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provides a basis for the monitoring of global change. Due to deficiencies in ...
Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary of the Working Group I Report
(1995)
This document comprises both the Summary for Policymakers and the Technical Summary of the Working Group I (WGI) report. It represents, in conjunction with the 11 chapters of the underlying WGI report from which this ...
Preparing for Drought: A Guidebook for Developing Countries
(1992)
The purpose of this guidebook is to describe those unique characteristics of drought that set it apart from other natural hazards (Chapter 1). The guidebook also describes the nature of impacts associated with drought. ...