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Global International Waters Assessment: Indian Ocean Islands, GIWA Regional Assessment 45b
This report presents the assessment of the Indian Ocean Islands, one of two oceanic assessments conducted by the GIWA. The region covers the Island States of Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar and Seychelles and the vast oceanic ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Caribbean Islands, GIWA Regional Assessment 4
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Caribbean Islands region-an archipelago comprising drainage basins and coastal areas that contain some of the world's most diverse and productive habitats. A variety of human ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Mekong River, GIWA Regional assessment 55
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Mekong River region which comprises parts of Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Rapid economic development and population growth are increasing the ...
Global International Waters Assessment: East China Sea, GIWA Regional Assessment 36
This report presents results of the GIWA assessment of the East China Sea region, which is one of the largest marginal seas in the world. This region receives tremendous inflow of freshwater and terrestrial sediments, ...
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals with Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and Challenges
This summary sets out the main findings of a review of the countries’ progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals contained in the 2010 inter-agency regional report on the Goals in Latin America and ...
New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 to 2012
New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory (the Inventory) is the official annual report of all anthropogenic (human induced) emissions and removals of greenhouse gases in New Zealand. The Inventory measures New Zealand’s ...
Suriname Environment Statistics Report
This publication marks 10 years of Environmental Statistics! It is presented again as one of the outputs of the UNSD/CARICOM Project (Now: CARICOM Program).
Caribbean Sea/Colombia & Venezuela, Central America & Mexico-GIWA Regional Assessment 3b, 3c
This report presents the results of the GIWA assessment of the Colombia & Venezuela and Central America & Mexico sub-systems' located in GIWA region 3, the Caribbean Sea. The regional team identified habitat and community ...
Contribution of the thermal infrared band of Landsat-7 ETM+ in the detection of seawater pollution along the Lebanese shoreline
The marine environment in Lebanon has been recently affected by land-derived pollution. This problem mostly concerns areas with dense urban activities. While threatening the marine ecosystem, it also affects, as a consequence, ...
Vital Caspian Graphics 2: Opportunities, Aspirations and Challenges
More than five years ago we published the first edition of Vital Caspian Graphics, which impressed readers with its abundance of new material presented in a synthesized and visually appealing format. Our goal that it be ...