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UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
The UNEP Frontiers 2016 edition presents six emerging issues. It highlights, for example, that the global significance of the financial sector should not confine itself only to... -
Chapter 1. Antimicrobial Resistance: Investigating the Environmental...
Antibiotic pharmaceuticals are used around the world to treat and prevent bacterial infections in humans, animals and even plants. They have also been used widely as growth... -
Nanomaterials: Applying the Precautionary Principle - Frontiers 2017:...
The recent advances in nanotechnology and nanoscience have introduced nanoscale materials with emergent physical and chemical properties to transform the world. -
Marine Protected Areas: Securing Benefits for Sustainable Development -...
Marine protected areas offer one of the best options for maintaining or returning ocean and coastal ecosystems to healthy conditions, particularly when developed as part of a... -
Sand and Dust Storms: Subduing a Global Phenomenon - Frontiers 2017:...
Sand and dust storms are inter-connected with a range of environmental and development issues that extend across national, regional, and continental bounds. Anthropogenic... -
Solar Solutions: Bridging the Energy Gap for Off-Grid Settlements -...
Recent years have seen an increased popularity of small distributed solar energy systems in low-income communities in Africa and Asia, where at least 95 per cent of the off-grid... -
Environmental Displacement: Human mobility in the Anthropocene - Frontiers...
The interlacing trends of climate change, population growth, rising consumption, large infrastructure projects and environmental degradation may lead to greater numbers of... -
Chapter 2. Ecological Connectivity: A Bridge to Preserving Biodiversity -...
Nature was once vast and boundless, but in an industrialized, 21st century world, this is no longer the case. Across the globe, landscapes and seascapes are becoming more... -
Chapter 4. The Nitrogen Fix: From Nitrogen Cycle Pollution to Nitrogen...
Nitrogen is an extremely abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere. In the form of the N2 molecule, nitrogen is harmless, making up 78 per cent of every breath we take. The two... -
Chapter 5. Maladaptation to Climate Change: Avoiding Pitfalls on the...
As climate change negotiations progressed, researchers examined how and why some adaptation actions go awry, particularly those actions that waste substantial amounts of human,... -
Chapter 2. Zoonoses: Blurred Lines of Emergent Disease and Ecosystem Health...
The 20th century was a period of unprecedented ecological change, with dramatic reductions in natural ecosystems and biodiversity and equally dramatic increases in people and... -
Chapter 3. Microplastics: Trouble in the Food Chain - UNEP Frontiers 2016...
As the world’s demand for plastic materials continues to grow, management of plastic waste will remain a global challenge. In 2014, global plastic production exceeded 311... -
Chapter 4. Loss and Damage: Unavoidable Impacts of Climate Change on...
Anthropogenic climate change is underway and will continue for the foreseeable future. It is manifesting more rapidly and more intensely than many expected.1,2 The most recent... -
Chapter 6. The Latest Frontier: Exotic Consumerism: Illegal Trade in Live...
Great apes and other live animals comprise a highly pro$table and symbolic aspect of the US$23 billion illegal wildlife trade--the fourth most lucrative black market after... -
Chapter 1. Synthetic Biology: Re-engineering the environment - Frontiers...
The world is facing unprecedented challenges to a healthy and sustainable future. Habitat destruction, invasive species, and overexploitation are contributing to immense... -
Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
This planet and its people face a growing number of challenges. They are as diverse as our cultures and environments, but they can all be tackled through a combination of... -
Chapter 3. Phenology: Climate Change is Shifting the Rhythm of Nature -...
Phenological mismatches have been detected through detailed studies on reproduction, pollination, survival and migration across a wide range of species (Renner and Zohner 2018;... -
Chapter 1. Listening to Cities: From Noisy Environments to Positive...
Sounds are complex physical phenomena originating in the vibration from a source that propagates energy into a medium as an acoustic wave. Sounds happen continuously and are... -
Chapter 2. Wildfires under Climate Change: A Burning Issue - Frontiers 2022...
Wildfires are a natural feature of the Earth system, necessary for the functioning of many ecosystems. Interactions between vegetation and climate over extended periods... -
Frontiers Report 2022 - Key Messages
Each edition of the Frontiers report introduces selected emerging environmental issues that present distinct challenges and require tailored solutions. These issues have...