Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Subject "SANITATION"
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City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
(2013)These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could ... -
Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for All
More than 90 percent of the world’s people now have access to improved water sources. In the past 25 years 2.1 billion people gained access to improved sanitation facilities. At the same time the share of people practicing ... -
Cleaner Production in the Mediterranean Region
(1995)The present report is a very valuable boost for the pioneering efforts in Mediterranean countries to implement cleaner production in our part of the world. -
Domestic Environment and Health of Women and Children
(1999)Given that the health problems associated with the domestic environment mainly affect women and children, gender issues are a strong component of this study. The book provides examples of how social and political backgrounds ... -
Draft Mapping Report and Preliminary Findings of the Assessment of the Fourth Programme for the Development and Review of Environmental law (Montevideo IV) - Discussion Draft
(2018)This draft report is a component of the independent assessment of Montevideo IV, mandated by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and which is currently being undertaken by the Evaluation Office of UN Environment. ... -
Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Natural Resource Use, Environmental sustainability and Responses to Climate Change
(2009)This report was prepared to inform the formulation of the five-year National Development Plan (NDP), whose theme is ‘Growth, Employment and Prosperity’. It is based on a study that draws lessons learned from over a decade ... -
Economic Values and the Environment in the Developing World - Environmental Economics Series No 14
(1994)This volume assesses the state of the art in applying economic valuation techniques to environmental problems in developing countries. It is in fulfilment of a contract between the United Nations Environment Programme ... -
Environmental Sustainability in Asia: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals - Series 2 Cambodia
(2019)This edition of the Environmental Sustainability in Asia Publication Series reflects the progress, challenges and opportunities of the seven principal themes in Cambodia, highlighting good practices in a wide variety of ... -
European Commission and UNEP Working together for the Environment
(2008)This brochure gives some examples of joint activities between the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme towards the common aim of environmental protection and sustainable development. -
Faecal Sludge Management in Africa: Socioeconomic Aspects and Human and Environmental Health Implications
(2020)This publication aims to explore how current trends in faecal sludge management are impacting human and environmental health in Africa (both sub-Saharan and Northern Africa). Faecal sludge comes from on-site sanitation ... -
Guidelines on Sewage Treatment and Disposal for the Mediterranean Region - MAP TechnicaL Reports Series No. 152
(2004)This document deals with the overall management of the wastewater sanitation system, and particularly with the problem of wastewater treatment and disposal. It has been developed as a basis for a common Mediterranean ... -
Integrated Baseline Study: Port-à-Piment Watershed - Sud Department, Haiti
(2013)This report provides a platform to measure indicators of development and poverty reduction over a multi-year time frame. It is also part of ongoing scientific research to understand the interaction and linkage of elements ... -
Preparation of technical documentation and papers for the Fifth African Regional Conference on Women (1994) and preparatory to the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995): Women, Environment and Sustainable Development
(1996)The sub-themes of this document illustrate how women's capacities in environment management attempt to avert or repair environmental degradation. But despite women's leadership in environmental management, women and ... -
Progress on Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management: Mid-term Status of SDG Indicator 6.5.1 and Acceleration Needs, with a Special Focus on Climate Change
(2024-08)Water is vital to human and planetary health and the internationally agreed goals that back it, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the Sendai Framework ... -
Right to a Healthy Environment: Good Practices - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
(2020)The present report highlights good practices in the recognition and implementation of the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The term “good practice” is defined broadly, to include laws, ... -
Saint Lucia’s National Infrastructure Assessment - Case Study
Infrastructure development decisions should be based on strategic planning that is aligned with global sustainable development agendas and supported by enabling policies, regulations and institutions that facilitate ... -
Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa
Sanitation, including the proper management of wastewater, is central to ensuring human and ecosystem health, and economic and environmental benefits. While significant efforts are being made across Africa to ensure ... -
Sustainable Development Action Plan (SDAP) "Securing the Future for the Next Generation of Ghanaians": National Programme on Sustainable Consumption (SCP) for Ghana (2011-2016) Volume 1 – Final Report
(2010)In every society, there is the need to manage production and consumption and investment patterns in relation to environmental, economic and social elements of sustainability. The way we consume and produce affect natural ... -
Sustainable Sanitation Systems: Health, Environment and Governance Challenges - The Case of Human Rights-Based Policy Reform in Alternative Wastewater Management Strategies
(2017)This report aims to highlight some existing sanitation system alternatives (e.g. ecological sanitation) to conventional (centralised) sewer based sanitation systems; but also to point out the necessity to consider ... -
Updated CEP Technical Report No. 33 - Land-based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean Region: Domestic and Industrial Pollutant Loads and Watersheds Inflows - CEP Technical Report 52
(2010)This updated report provides an update on the domestic and industrial pollutant loads discharged in WCR, sanitation coverage expansion and treatment, as well as the pollutant loading from watersheds inflows according to ...