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Global International Waters Assessment: Eastern Equatorial Pacific, GIWA Regional Assessment 65
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2006)
This report presents the assessment of the GIWA Eastern Equatorial Pacific region, which includes parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Pollution in the Southwest Mexico sub-system, ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Guinea Current, GIWA Regional Assessment 42
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2003)
This report presents the assessment of the Guinea Current region a vast region that includes the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem as well as 28 international river basins shared by 27 countries. The region is characterised ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Lake Chad Basin, GIWA Regional Assessment 43
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)
This report represents the GIWA Assessment of the Lake Chad Basin, which is located in one of the poorest and most drought prone regions in the world. Climatic variability and poor water governance has threatened the ...
Global International Waters Assessment Patagonian Shelf, GIWA Regional assessment 38
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)
This report presents the assessment of Patagonian Shelf and associated river basins. The report focuses on the La Plata River Basin, the second largest watershed in South America, and the South Atlantic Drainage System, ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Mekong River, GIWA Regional assessment 55
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2006)
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: Indonesian Seas, GIWA Regional Assessment 57
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2005)
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Indonesian Seas region, which comprises some 18 000 islands, is geologically and topographically diverse, and lies at the global centre of tropical marine biodiversity. The ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Benguela Current, GIWA Regional Assessment 44
(University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme, 2005)
This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Benguela Current region, which includes the entire extent of the Benguela Current system and the freshwaters that drain into it. The environmental and socio-economic problems ...
Framing the Flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2010)
Marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems are complex and characterized by different outcomes and by the potential of rapid change, they present also linkages and tradeoffs among services, which is the reason that we cannot ...
Global International Waters Assessment: Caribbean Islands, GIWA Regional Assessment 4
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2004)
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 ...
Eastern Africa Atlas of Coastal Resources: Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2002)
This manual is designed to allow a comprehensive approach to coastal and marine environment the islands of the Comoros and its human uses.