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Implications of Climate Changes in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP Technical Report 03
(1989)
This report presents a study emphasizing the marine and coastal environments of the Wider Caribbean Region and the implications brought on by climate change. The study has a scope limited to a sailor’s view of the coastline, ...
The State of the Environment 1980: Selected Topics
(1980)
The present annual state of the environment report deals with five topics of international significance selected by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its seventh session: carbon dioxide ...
WMO/UNEP Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change: Report of the First Session
(1988)
The first session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was held at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG) from 9 to 11 November 1988. It was formally opened at 10.15 am on 9 November by Mr. J.P. ...
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 13, 1986: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1986)
In this issue: Satellite remote sensing of desert spatial extent; Desertification in Botswana: progress towards a viable monitoring system; Soil at risk; Combating desertification in Zimbabwe; Desertification in India: ...
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 ...
Climate Crisis: The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)
Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland, organized and financed by the United Nations Environment ...
High and Dry: Mediterranean Climate in the Twenty-first Century
(1989)
This booklet summarizes their discussions and their recommendations, and presents some of the issues involved in predicting climate change and its effects. It will focus on the Mediterranean - why it is important, why it ...
Inventory and Monitoring of Sahelian Pastoral Ecosystems: Senegal - GEMS Sahel Series Main Report
(1988)
The report gives a concise account of the research carried out in Senegal from 1980 to 1984 on the inventory and monitoring of Sahelian grazing ecosystems. The method used is new in as much as it combines several techniques: ...
Inventory and Monitoring of Sahelian Pastoral Ecosystems Annex 7: Woody Vegetation in the Sahel - GEMS Sahel Series No. 7
(1988)
The present document, the seventh in the series, reviews the status and trend of the woody plant cover in the Sahel. The history of the climate of the Sahel is used to place the recent droughts in context. Changes in the ...