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During the past two decades, awareness of the impacts of pollution on the coastal and marine environments of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) has increased. Tourism, one of the...

The aluminium inustry is one of the major industrial Sectors agreed for examination. Consultations have been undertaken with experts nominated by Governments, Industry and...

This report of the inventory of emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases is an initiative towards meeting Lesotho s obligation under article 4 of the Convention.

This report gives an overall assessment of the effects of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict on the terrestrial ecosystems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It also provides a description...

Soils are a basic natural and almost non-renewable resource, the use of which should be governed by two major principles: - soil losses and degradation must be avoided, and, -...

The soils policy suggested in this document is meant to be illustrative rather than exhaustive in character, and by no means a substitute for local experience, foresight or...

This report is an account of the special situations of the mangrove forests in Singapore, which declined from 10-12% of the total land area 150 years ago to 3% in 1978, and to...

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...

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

The study is a result of an interdisciplinary approach of a research team guided by Professor Kwi-Gon Kim, Seoul National Univer-sity. The research team's excellent perceptions...

This document, “The Future of Our Land – Facing the Challenge” is the third in the series and proposes an integrated planning approach for sustainable management of land...

Data entry, modeling and graphical output for the Uganda case study have been carried out with the ARC/INFO Geographic Information System on a PRIME minicomputer. Most of the...

This report is required to evaluate tie impact of deforestation on the general environment of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and to formulate guidelines for land use and...

This report is a brief overview over the problems around the utilization and conservation of mangrove forests and the mangrove ecosystems in Indonesia.

This report reviews and synthesizes country reports from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand describing the state of knowledge on mangrove forests in...

This report provides an analysis of the environmental and socio-economic hotspots along the entire textile value chain and looks at a range of associated impacts, as well as at...

Financial institutions, including institutional investors, banks and impact investors, as well as companies across the agricultural value chain, all play a vital role in making...

Topics addressed include: 1) Why a Land Use Finance Programme?; 2) How Does the Land Use Finance Programme Contribute to the Solution?; 3) What Does Success Look Like?; and 4)...

Drawing from the conclusions in the forthcoming global report of the International Resource Panel “The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization” this...