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A Regional Approach to the Sustainable and Ecosystem-Based Management of Coastal Erosion in the East Asian Seas Region: A Resource Document
(2011)
This resource document builds on the current understanding of coastal erosion processes and policy responses from the region and around the world. It provides EAS member countries with a two-step process to develop a logical ...
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Selected Case Studies from Africa
(2019)
Efforts to protect the environment can have a negative impact on people’s livelihoods if it does not increase livelihood options from the ecosystem. So how do we maintain a healthy environment as
climate changes and at ...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Voluntary Programmes
(1997)
The United Nations estimates that total global energy consumption in the agri-cultural, buildings, industrial, and trans-portation sectors together could be reduced by 35 per cent by the year 2020 through the adoption of ...
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Recent discussion of biodiversity loss has focused on its expected ecological consequences, as well as on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, and economic effects this loss will have on our world. Sustaining Lfe is the ...
Reefs at Risk: Coral Reefs, Human Use and Global Climate Change - A Programme of Action
(1993)
For once, the popular mythology contains some truth. Coral reefs can be likened to tropical forests in certain important ways. Both reefs and jungles are biologically diverse in comparison with other ecosystems. Reefs are ...
Analysis of Policies Related to the Protection of Coral Reefs: Analysis of Global and Regional Policy Instruments and Governance Mechanisms Related to the Protection and Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs
(2019)
This analysis identifies at least four potential pathways by which international policy responses can help coral reef states address local drivers of reef loss and enhance coral reef resilience (and potential for survival) ...
The Greenhouse Gases - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 1
(1987)
The Earth's climate, over the millennia of its existence, has been shaped by the cosmic forces of nature—by the cooling of the Earth's core, variations in the intensity of the Sun, changes in the tilt of our planet. These ...
Environmental Impact of Large-Scale Mining in Papua New Guinea: Mining Residue Disposal by the Ok Tedi Copper-Gold Mine
(1995)
The Ok Tedi copper-gold mine, located in the eastern part of the central mountain range of New Guinea, discharges daily approximately 80,000 tons of ore processing residues and a similar volume of waste rock and overburden ...
The El Nino Phenomenon - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 8
(1992)
Places as far apart as Australia and North America, Peru and India are affected by recurrent climatic anomalies known as El Niño. Originating in the Pacific region, El Niño effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ...
The Impacts of Climate on Fisheries - UNEP Environment Library No. 13
(1994)
This volume of the UNEP Environment Library summarizes the potential implications of climate change and variability on fisheries and on the societies that depend on them. It is based on a review of several fisheries case ...