Browsing Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "French Polynesia"
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A practical guide to landfill management in Pacific Island countries and territories: Volume 1 - Inland-based waste disposal (2nd edition)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2010)Solid waste management is an environmental priority for most islands in the Pacific. Unfortunately, lack of recycling and reduction initiatives, poor waste collection systems, open dumpsites, and environmental pollution ... -
Action Plan for Managing the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific region. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 29
(1983)The Action Plan is intended to provide a framework for environmentally sound planning and management, suited to the needs and conditions of the countries and people in the region, and to enhance their own environmental ... -
Adapting to Climate Change in the Pacific: the PACC Programme
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme began in 2009 a s a regional response to the climate change threat.It is currently the largest climate change adaptation initiative in the region, with activities ... -
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in PACC programme - experiences and lessons learned in the application of CBA to PACC demonstation projects (PTR2)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)This report has been developed to summarise and communicate the key outputs and learnings of the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) work programme as part of the Global Environment Facility's Special Climate Change Fund (GEF-SCCF) ... -
Informing climate-resilient development: the application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in PACC programme - experiences and lessons learned on capacity building (PTR1)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)This report sets out the evaluation findings of the capacity-building components of the PACC CBA work programme. A separate report, PACC Technical Report no. 2, sythesises the CBA reports completed under the work programme, ... -
L’ÉTAT DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT EN POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE
(Ministère de l’Environnement, 2006)Les grandes orientations d’une politique de développement durable doivent reposer sur une connaissance approfondie et actualisée des données environnementales, mais aussi parce que l’on ne protège bien que ce que l’on ... -
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific : a practical guide
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2014)This guide aims to provide an insight in to various questions about mainstreaming as well as provide a practical step-by-step framework on how to mainstream climate change into PICTs development plannimg and decision-making ... -
Marine Environmental Centres: South Pacific
(1985)This publication is a contribution to the UNEP sponsored regional Action Plan for managing the natural resources and environment of the South Pacific region adopted at the Conference on the Human Environment in the South ... -
Outlook Report on the State of the Marine Biodiversity in the Pacific Islands Region
(South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2010)This report provides a summary of current information regarding pressure, state and responses to these threats for the Pacific Islands region, as well as the responses by PICTs in addressing, alleviating and/or mitigating ... -
Pacific Integrated Island Management : principles, case studies and lessons learned
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2013)This document is supported by an illustrated synthesis and electronic materials for use in communicating and promoting use of Integrated Island Management approaches. These products are designed to raise awareness of ... -
Review of the Protected Areas System in Oceania
(1986)The area covered by this review is that served by the South Pacific Commission with some minor additions. It is a region of a few larger and many tiny islands, with diverse and often unique species and ecosystems, scattered ... -
SPREP Country Report - French Polynesia
(South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 1980)French Polynesia comprises approximately 130 islands, including one hundred of which are atolls and thirty high islands somewhat larger. In fact, all these islands are very small and many of the mountainous islands are so ... -
Status and Trends of Coral Reefs of the Pacific
(2018)This report presents the summation of an enormous amount of data and information on 19 of the 23 nations and states of the Pacific and outlines both the problems and stresses on these thousands of reefs, and the potential ...
