Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "HUMAN ECOLOGY"

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    • Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living 

      United Nations Environment Programme; International Union for Conservation of Nature; World Wide Fund For Nature (1991)
      The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new ethic, the ethic for sustainable living, and ...

    • Cuidar la Tierra: Estrategia para el Futuro de la Vida - Resumen 

      United Nations Environment Programme; International Union for Conservation of Nature; World Wide Fund For Nature (1991)
      La presente Estrategia está dirigida a todos, pero sus principales destinatarios son los que se encargarán de decidir cuáLes son las medidas esenciales que debemos tomar a partir de ahora. Nos dirijimos a los jefes de ...

    • Ecosystems and Human Well-being : Our Human Planet - Summary for Decision-makers 

      Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)
      The assessment focuses on the linkages between ecosystems and human well-being and, in particular, on "ecosystem services." An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the nonliving ...

    • Inventory and Monitoring of Sahelian Pastoral Ecosystems Annex 7: Woody Vegetation in the Sahel - GEMS Sahel Series No. 7 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Senegal (1988)
      The present document, the seventh in the series, reviews the status and trend of the woody plant cover in the Sahel. The history of the climate of the Sahel is used to place the recent droughts in context. Changes in the ...

    • Methyl Isobutyl Ketone - Environmental Health Criteria 117 

      World Health Organization; United Nations Environment Programme; International Labour Organisation (1990)

    • The State of the Environment 1987 

      United Nations Environment Programme (Butterworths, 1987)
      This book provides an analysis of the state of the environment as viewed by the United Nations organization responsible for the safety and better management of the environment at the global level. It is not meant to be an ...