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GEO Year Book 2007
(UNEP, 2007)
The GEO Year Book 2007 is essential, informative, and authoritative reading for anyone with a role or an interest in our changing environment. The 2007 Year Book includes global and regional overviews of significant ...
South-South cooperation: sharing national pathways towards inclusive green economies
(UNEP, 2013)
Four unique national initiatives are highlighted in this brochure – all taking place in countries in the South, at different stages of implementation: Bolivia’s Vivir Bien (Living Well), China’s Ecological Civilization, ...
Payments for Ecosystem Services: Getting Started - A Primer
(2008)
This primer is designed to provide you with a solid understanding of what Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) are and how PES deals work. It is intended for an audience interested in exploring the potential of PES either ...
Water quality assessments: a guide to the use of biota, sediments and water in ecosystems
(E&FN Spon, 1992)
This guidebook concentrates on the process of setting on monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing a valid data base for water quality assessments.
The links between migration, globalisation and sustainable development
(UNEP, 2001)
Increased migration is one of the most visible and significant aspects of globalisation: growing numbers of people move within countries and across borders, looking for better employment opportunities and better lifestyles. ...
The Mesopotamian marshlands: demise of and ecosystem
(UNEP, 2001)
This report examines the disappearance of a world's greatest wetland and largest ecosystem in Southwest Asia
Feed-in tariffs and a policy instrument for promoting renewable energies and green economies in developing countries
(UNEP, 2012)
This report is intended as a resource for policy makers in developing countries to make informed policy decisions about the whether, when and how of FITs and to support nationally appropriate policy measures to scale up ...
Balkan vital graphics
(UNEP, 2007)
Environmental protection is one of the areas where the Balkan countries still face a big challenge to catch up with their western neighbours. After the 1990s conflicts and the breakup of Yugoslavia, six new Balkan states ...
Fresh water for the future: a synopsis of UNEP activities in water
(UNEP, 2012)
This publication gives a snapshot of the significant contribution that UNEP with its partners have made around the world in protecting our limited fresh water resources for the improvement of livelihoods, focusing 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 ...