Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "lake"
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The Changing Aral Sea - Foresight Brief No. 003 October 2017
(2017)The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest inland lake. Its hydrological balance is strongly determined by inflows from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers which are fed by glacial melt waters from the southwestern ... -
Chapter 4: Freshwater-related ecosystems - Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-03)Many relationships were identified as significant for freshwater-related ecosystems. This chapter explores the significance of such relationships and whether such relationships are confirmed by scientific evidence. -
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Volume VIII: Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
(1998)The Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries was published for the first time in 1996. The 1996 Edition of the Compendium is produced in about four volumes. The first volume contains the framework environmental ... -
Conference Report of the ‘GEF International Waters Science Conference 2012’ (IWSC 2012) : Setting the International Waters Science Agenda for the next Decade
(2012-09)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the UNDP/UNEP Global Environment Facility (GEF) IW:LEARN program and numerous partners held the first Global Environment ‘GEF International Waters Science ... -
Data Book of the World Lake Environments: A Survey of the State of the State of World Lakes
(1987)This data book is the major output from a joint ILEC/UNEP project. Survey of the State of World Lakes. The International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC) and the Lake Biwa Research Institute (LBRI) are jointly responsible ... -
Data Book of World Lake Environments: A Survey of the State of World Lakes (1991 Report)
(1991)This is the fourth report from the Joint ILEC/UNEP project "Survey of the State of World Lakes", compiling geographical, limnological, socio-economic and environmental data on 38 lakes and reservoirs from Mongolia, Russia, ... -
Diagnostic Analysis of the Lake Xingkai/Khanka Basin (People's Republic of China and Russian Federation)
(2001)Lake Xingkai/Khanka is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast Asia, located on the border between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation. Its basin is a part of the WusulifUssuri-Heilong/Amur basin. ... -
The Drying of Iran's Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) February 2012
(2012-02)Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East (1,2,3). It extends as much as 140 km from north to south and is as wide ... -
Ecosystem Restoration Playbook: A Practical Guide to Healing the Planet
(2021)Earth needs help. The climate emergency, the loss of nature and deadly pollution threaten to destroy our home and eliminate many of the millions of species that share this beautiful planet with us. But this degradation is ... -
Environmental and social safeguards in Rwanda - A Climate adaptation case study
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-11)A project supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is aiming to increase the capacity of Rwandan authorities and local communities to adapt to climate change using ... -
Eutrosym ‘76: 20-25. IX. 1976 KarI-Marx-Stadt German Democratic Republic - Proceedings the International Symposium on Eutrophication and Rehabilitation of Surface Water – Vol. IV
(1976)The participants in this meeting drew up draft recommendations concerning the protection of surface waters from eutrophication -
From UNEA to General Assembly: Taking Action for Sustainable Lake Management – As a Catalyst to aAcelerate Global Commitment in the Water Action Agenda
(2023-03)UN 2023 water conference in-person side event at the UN headquarters. -
Gems-water operational guide
(UNEP, 1992)This is the third edition of GEMS/WATER Operational Guide -
Gems-Water: Report of a Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment - Report Series No. 12
(1992-03)The workshop on water quality monitoring and assessment, held in Arusha, Tanzania from 23 March to 3 April 1992, mainly for the Nile riparian countries, is one of the many activities conducted during the first two years ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 2: Socio-Economic Aspects of Lake Reservoir Management
(1989)Contents: Utilization of Water Resources and Problems of Lake Management / T. Kira; Understanding of the state of the lake environment from a socio-cultural perceptive - an example of Lake Biwa, Japan / Y. Kada; Profile ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 3: Lake Shore Management
(1990)The scope of this book is to demonstrate the importance of the lake shore in a holistic lake management framework and discuss how the ecotone between lake and land can be maintained as an effective protection zone for the ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 7: Biomanipulation in Lakes and Reservoirs Management
(1995)This volume of the ILEC/UNEP guideline book series offers a general introduction to the role of biomanipulation in lake management with emphasis on the control of excessive algal growth in lakes suffering from eutrophication. ... -
Guidelines of Lake Management Volume 9: Reservoir Water Quality Management
(1999)This book was designed for use by anyone who is interested in reservoir water quality. The book specifically stresses reservoirs as opposed to lakes, however, reservoirs and lakes have much in common and reservoirs are ... -
Interactions of Biogeochemical Cycles in Aqueous Ecosystems Part 7 - Proceedings of a workshop arranged by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
(1988)The SCOPE/UNEP International program of Studies on the Biogeochemical Cycles has four principal subjects: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Carbon and Sulphur. The study is being undertaken to find the major complex interactions between ... -
International Waters of the Middle East: From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile - Water Resources Management Series 2
(Oxford University Press, 1994)This book studies the three major river basins and address the many difficulties faced by countries in this region. While political differences often stand in the way of cooperation between countries, the contributors to ...
