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The purpose of this regional overview is to highlight problems and issues of regional concern in order that they will be considered in the preparation of a long-term strategy...

To monitor the effects of coastal development and to apply coastal resource management recommendations to the State of Bahrain, an inventory of the distribution and condition of...

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...

As part of the continued effort of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide technical information which may contribute to the protection of the marine...

The overall purpose of this white paper is to compile background information for a strategic status update and critical situational analysis that informs and elicits feedback...

This mission was initiated by IMO/UNEP at the request of the Third Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme, held in...

This spiral-bound, water-resistant field guide is designed to provide an accurate and easy way to identify stranded marine mammal species for stranding network volunteers, the...

This report documents developments in the protected areas systems in the 37 states and territories that make up the Wider Caribbean Region. Overall, 1,307 protected areas (20%...

This directory focuses on sound environmentally sound technologies for waste management plus those currently successfully being used in Small Island Developing States within the...

Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the...

The following guidelines are not intended to replace the extensive theoretical and methodological information and the national policies of each country that exist on the...

This paper highlights some of the major environmental issues or concerns in the Caribbean and indicate some of the steps towards dealing with them. This focus on environmental...

The purpose of this document is to describe methods of anticipating, assessing and minimizing erosion and sediment impacts from site development. It is hoped that by outlining...

The Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (CReW) has realized that simply providing funds may not be enough to solve the challenges participating countries face in...

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which took place in Stockholm, 5-16 June 1972, adopted the Action Plan for the Human Environment, including the General...

This book provides the first expert and comprehensive account of the implications that global warming and sea-level rise will have on the ecosystems and socio- economic...

The purpose of this document is to contribute to the process of development of an environmental quality criteria to scientifically address the ecological, cultural and socio-...

The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by UNEP in 1974. Since then the Governing Council of UNEP has repeatedly endorsed a regional approach to the control of marine...

The Siren is issued four times a year. It is intended as an informal presentation of the news from the Regional Seas Programme

During the period January – March 2021, the ACPMEAs 3 programme started to re-invent itself by not just delivering a set of activities in the three regions but by making the...