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El Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Media Ambiente, de conformidad con su mandato y teniendo en cuenta que los Gobiernos han instado al PNUTvIA a concentrarse, entre...

The projects objective is to develop a method allowing for an evaluation of a possible environmental degradation occurred in various Sahelian countries in the last decades. In...

Desertification has always been one of the major environmental problems of the developing countries in Asia as well as Australia. To focus world attention on this serious...

The overall objective of the Workshop was to review and assess the progress of Asia and Pacific countries in implementing the forestry related agreements reached at UNCED,...

An International Workshop was held to consider land degradation in drylands and its management, particularly as it relates to carbon management as a means to combat global...

This volume includes abstracts of papers presented at the International Scientific Symposium held under the aegis of the UNEP/USSR Project "Combating Desertification through...

The objectives of this study are to: 1. Assess the extent and severity of land degradation in Asia; 2. Estimate the economic efficiency of measures for the target of LDN in...

This publication makes the often hidden links between women and the environment visible, with an explicit focus on the gender-related aspects of land, water and biodiversity...

This booklet commemorates the 10th anniversary of the UN Conference on Desertification and its Action Plan to Combat Desertification. That UNCOD set in motion a ripple effect of...

This directory has been prepared to aid those seeking qualified experts in various environmental fields, in order to fulfill the pressing needs for mitigating environmental...

This paper gives a brief description of ecological monitoring - what it is, how it works, what results it produces and what it costs.

This report analyses existing Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) methodologies and makes specific recommendations on how cities can improve their access to climate finance...

A team of consultants and National experts was commissioned by UNEP-ROWA to prepare a National Plan of Action to Combat Desertification (NPACD) for the State of Bahrain.

The Project RAF/88/047/B/01/5, funded by UNDP, is a multi-disciplinary programme for strengthening of economic cooperation and integration among West African States within the...

This handbook serves to pull together all of the applicable Governing Council decisions and resolutions concerning forests, woodlands, desertification and related areas for the...

The Charter of the United Nations obliges the Member States to resolve disputes by peaceful means that are listed in its Article 33. These principles have also been incorporated...

UNEP's mandate for desertification control is based on almost twenty years of Governing Council and General Assembly Resolutions, frequently updated. These have been...

La catáslrofe, vinculada con la primera fase de Ia sequia en la region de Sahel-Sudán en los años 1968-1973, impulsó a Ia comunidad mundial a examinar el estado de los...

International Conventions that are concerned with the conservation or utilisation of renewable natural resources do form a potential user group for GTOS.

The Plan of Action to Combat Desertification in Syria highlights the gravity of the desertification problems encountered in the various Syrian environmental regions, notably the...