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The two-year regional project “Mapping and Enhancing Natural Resource Governance in Small Island Communities” is funded by Mangroves for the Future (MFF), and is targeting four...

Enhancing the environmental expertise of staff in tertiary institutions in the Asia-Pacific region will facilitate the transition to a more sustainable world. This report...

The Regional Activity Centre for Land-based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBS/RAC-Cimab) Protocol was contracted by the Caribbean Regional Coordinating Unit of the United Nations...

This Action Plan represents an expression of goals and a programme agenda, adopted by participating Governments, that is consistent with a growing worldwide concern for the...

The conservation of the marine environment and coastal areas of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for the benefit of the present and future generations will be the main objective of,...

This report provides the supporting science for the UNEP Science-to-Policy brief (2017). It synthesizes the current science on wastewater pollution and coral reefs to inform...

The coastal areas of the East Asian Seas, in particular those of the Southeast Asian countries contain one of the most rich and diversified ecosystem in the world, characterized...

This report summarizes four country studies that were undertaken as part of the UNEP Country Case Studies on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations Assessment. These studies,...

This paper estimates that, during 1979, a total of about 144,000 metric tonnes of oil polluted the Kuwait Action Plan (KAP) Region and that, during the 10 years from 1980 to...

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...

This report aims to make a small contribution to the above challenge by compiling practical cases of marine and coastal management from different regions that have integrated a...

The following is an outline of the progress made in the 10 years since Montevideo towards achieving the objectives and strategies laid down by the meeting of Experts, in respect...

This project was originally designed to strengthen the capabilities of governments of the region to undertake environmentally sound development and to manage the marine and...

Reported cases of coastal hypoxia or low oxygen areas have doubled in each of the last four decades, threatening global environment benefits in most of the Large Marine...

The objectives of the manual are: i) to present scientific information necessary to understand the formation and dynamic behaviour of coastal sedimentary features; and ii) to...

De conformidad con Ia resolución 2997 (XXVII) de la Asamblea General, se estableció ci PNUMA como punto central para las actividades relacionadas con el medio ambicntc y para Ia...

This handbook is essentially as an introduction to a wide range of methods that can be used to design assessment studies of climate change impacts and related adaptation...

This assessment is an important and innovative development for assessing the status of the Mediterranean ecosystem and the achievement of Good Environmental Status (GES)....

African Ocean Governance Strategy: Scoping study and gap analysis

The 2009 East Asian Seas State of the Marine Environment Report (EAS SOMER) presents current information regarding the present state of and outlook for the region’s marine and...