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An examination of the effects of, and research into, the El Nino phenomenon. Originating in the Pacific region, El Nino effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ocean currents, and changes in ocean temperature between Indonesia and the Pacific coas

The El Niño Phenomenon

World Tourism Organization

Stephen F. McCool

Paul F. J. Eagles

Christopher D. Haynes

This report tells how to ensure that tourism follows a sustainable path and that it contributes to the sustainable management of protected areas. Guidelines are presented to help readers understand protected area tourism and its management, and practical suggestions are based on theory and practice from around the world. Coverage includes biodiversity and conservation, planning for protected area tourism, culturally sensitive design and operation, visitor management, and human resources. There is no subject index. Eagles teaches at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Guidelines for Planning and Management

Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas

This Africa Water 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, hundreds of compelling photos plus a brief profile of the water situation in every country. These visual elements vividly illustrate a succinct narrative describing and analysing Africa's water issues and exemplifying them through the judiciious use of case studies. The Atlas tells the paradoxical story of a continent with adequate renewable water resources, but unequal access because the water is either abundant or scarce depending on the season or the place. it explores the opportunities to develop Africa's untapped water resources and human capacities to deliver safe drinking water and sanitation services to achieve the water-related Millennium Development Goals, As well as hydropower and irrigation services that help support livelihoods and boost economic development.

Africa Water Atlas

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Founded in 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO provides a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. The Organization publishes authoritative publications on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition. An intergovernmental organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.

The Restoration Initiative Year in Review 2019

Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture     

Alors que la Décennie des Nations Unies pour la biodiversité 2011-2020 touche à sa fin et que les pays se préparent à adopter un cadre mondial pour la biodiversité pour l’après-2020, la présente édition de La Situation des forêts du monde (SOFO) examine la contribution des forêts, et des personnes qui les utilisent et les gèrent, à la conservation et à l’utilisation durable de la biodiversité. Les forêts recouvrent à peine plus de 30 pour cent de la superficie des terres émergées et cependant elles abritent une vaste majorité des espèces végétales et animales terrestres connues. Malheureusement, les forêts et la biodiversité qu’elles renferment demeurent menacées par la conversion en terres agricoles ou par une exploitation, pour une grande part illégale, à des niveaux non durables. La Situation des forêts du monde 2020 récapitule les avancées qui, à ce jour, nous rapprochent des cibles et des objectifs mondiaux relatifs à la biodiversité des forêts, et analyse l’efficacité des politiques, actions et démarches en matière de conservation et de développement durable. Des études de cas fournissent des exemples de pratiques novatrices qui combinent conservation et utilisation durable de la biodiversité des forêts pour créer des solutions où s’équilibrent l’intérêt des populations humaines et celui de la planète.

Forêts, biodiversité et activité humaine

La situation des forêts du monde 2020

GRID--Arendal

Vital Climate Change Graphics presents a collection of graphics focusing on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change. The visual information contained makes it possible to grasp complex facts more quickly and fully than would be possible through simple text. This updated edition is based on the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC.

Vital Climate Change Graphics

Evan Stuart Andrews

The Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products provides a map, a skeleton and a flash light for stakeholders engaging in the assessment of social and socio-economic impacts of products life cycle. The map describes the context, the key concepts, the broader field in which tools and techniques are getting developed and their scope of application. The skeleton presents key elements to consider and provide guidance for the goal and scope, inventory, impact assessment and interpretation phases of a social life cycle assessment. The flash light highlights areas where further research is needed. Social Life Cycle Assessment is a technique available to account for stories and inform systematically on impacts that otherwise would be lost in the vast and fast moving sea of our modern world. May it help stakeholders to effectively and efficiently engage to improve social and socio-economic conditions of production and consumption

Social and Socio-economic LCA Guidelines Complementing Environmental LCA and Life Cycle Costing, Contributing to the Full Assessment of Goods and Services Within the Context of Sustainable Development

Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products

This summary of UNEP's activities in 2008 provides an overview of the organization's contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining challenge of our era. The report also looks at the broad range of other activities carried out by UNEP as it follows its mandate to provide environmental leadership and promote sustainable development.

Unep 2008 Annual Report

The State of the Environment

Arne Remmen

The journey towards sustainability requires that companies must find innovative ways to make profits and at the same time extend the traditional boundaries of business to include the environmental and social dimensions, a process known as Life Cycle Thinking. This Guide contains many examples illustrating how business organizations are putting Life Cycle Thinking into practice all over the world.

A Business Guide to Sustainability

Life Cycle Management

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The PIC Circular is a key document under the Rotterdam Convention, both for the operation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure and as a mechanism for the exchange of information. It is published in June and December in English, French and Spanish. It is done jointly with UNEP Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Geneva. It directly supports SO2.3.1-stakeholders in implementing international instruments.

PIC Circular LIV (54) – December 2021

The UN Environment Emissions Gap Report assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with the emission levels permissible for the world to progress on a least-cost pathway to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. This difference between where we are likely to be and where we need to be is known as the emissions gap. The report explores some of the most important options available for countries to bridge the gap.

A UN Environment Synthesis Report

The Emissions Gap Report 2017

Carl Bruch

Elizabeth Mrema

Jordan Diamond

This report inventories and analyses the range of international laws that protect the environment during armed conflict. With a view to identifying the current gaps and weaknesses in this system, the authors examine the relevant provisions within four bodies of international law - environmental humanitarian (IHL), international criminal law (ICL), international environmental law (IEL), and international human rights law (HRL). The report concludes with twelve concrete recommendations on ways to strengthen this legal framework and its enforcement. The Environment and Natural Resources are crucial for building and consolidating peace, it is urgent that their protection in times of armed conflict be strengthened. There can be no durable peace if the natural resources that sustain livelihoods are damaged or destroyed. This report provides a basis upon which Member States can draw upon to clarify, expand and enforce international law on environmental protection in times of war.

An Inventory and Analysis of International Law

Protecting the Environment During Armed Conflict

Alex Kirby

Climate in Peril: A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports presents the substance of the Climate Change 2007 Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in simplified language and structure. The guide, intended for lay readers, is a joint publication of GRID-Arendal and SMI Books, with the generous support of the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports

Climate in Peril

This is the second edition of this publication which examines the lifecycle of products and the types of waste that are produced at each stage of the process, relating to production, distribution, consumption and disposal stages. It considers key issues and highlights global trends in waste production and management, using accessible graphics, maps and text both within and beyond the scope of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes and their Disposal. The main objective is to raise public awareness of the need for environmentally sound waste management in order to help conserve natural resources and promote sustainable development. This publication has been produced by UNEP/GRID-Arendal in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention.

Vital Waste Graphics 2

Founex, Stockholm, Cocoyoc

In Defence of the Earth, the Basic Texts on Environment

Donella H. Meadows

Key Concepts and Case Studies in Environmental Education

Harvesting One Hundredfold

Bulletin

Unesco

Final Report

Regional Planning Meeting of the MAB National Committees of Andean Countries with Particular Attention to Project 6, Lima, 2-5 December 1975

Продовольственная и сельскохозяйственная организация Объединенных Наций      

В связи с приближающимся окончанием Десятилетия биоразнообразия Организации Объединенных Наций (2011–2020) и подготовкой к принятию странами Глобальной рамочной программы в области биоразнообразия на период после 2020 года, настоящий выпуск доклада "Состояние лесов мира" (СОФО) посвящен рассмотрению вклада лесов и людей, которые используют их и управляют ими, в дело сохранения и устойчивого использования биоразнообразия. Леса покрывают чуть больше 30 процентов суши в мире, однако они являются средой обитания для подавляющего большинства известных науке видов наземных растений и животных. К сожалению, леса и связанное с ними биоразнообразие по-прежнему подвергаются угрозе в результате деятельности, направленной на преобразование земель в сельскохозяйственные угодья, или под воздействием хищнической эксплуатации, большая часть которой является незаконной. В докладе "Состояние лесов мира – 2020" оценивается проделанная работа по решению общемировых задач и достижению целей, и дается анализ результатов политики, мероприятий и подходов как с точки зрения сохранения, так и с точки зрения обеспечения устойчивого развития. В приводимых в докладе тематических исследованиях представлены примеры инновационных приемов, сочетающих меры по сохранению и устойчивому использованию биоразнообразия лесов, для реализации сбалансированных решений, отвечающих потребностям как человека, так и всей планеты.

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