Browsing UNEP Publications Pre-2023 by Title
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Walking and Cycling in Africa: Evidence and Good Practice to Inspire Action
This report is a first attempt at gathering, analyzing and presenting data to demonstrate the everyday reality for the one billion people in Africa who walk and cycle every day. It baselines conditions in all 54 African ... -
Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Response to Recovery
This report provides practical information, suggestions, and guidelines on Healthcare Waste Management (HCWM) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) given the restrictions and limitations imposed by the ongoing pandemic, ... -
Waste Management Outlook for West Asia 2019: Waste to Wealth
(2019)This Regional Outlook builds upon the Global Waste Management Outlook published in 2015. Focusing on waste management systems, finance and governance, it articulates a means of future progress toward sustainable waste ... -
Waste to Energy: Considerations for Informed Decision-making
(2019)This report provides a balanced overview of trends in the numbers of municipal solid waste-to-energy plants around the world, and their impacts on people and the environment, including climate. It outlines key considerations ... -
Waste: Investing in Energy and Resource Efficiency - Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
The chapter identifies the contributions that the waste sector can play in assisting in a transition to a green economy. It provides guidance for policy makers, and identifies the economic, environmental and social impacts ... -
Water for the future: an annotated bibliography for world water day and the international year of freshwater
(UNESCO, 2003)This bibliography has been compiled to provide an easily accessible resource on materials on water. This bibliography brings together a list of publications from relevant UN system agencies and is a valuable resource for ... -
Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment of Groundwater - Technical Guidance Document
This document is part of a series of guidebooks that address various aspects of monitoring and assessment of freshwater. It describes the main features of groundwater that govern its quantity, availability and chemical ... -
Water World Children's Voices: An Educational Booklet on Water for Children
(2003)This booklet captures the world of water from the eyes of children. It is written in the form of a story. The narrator, Nthabi, is a 14 year-old girl from Kenya, who teaches us about water, using her own experiences, along ... -
Water: Investing in Natural Capital - Towards a Green Economy Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
This chapter identifies the contributions that water can play in assisting a transition to a green economy. It makes the case for early investment in water management and infrastructure to make greater use of biodiversity ... -
The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization
(2018)The report presents the first assessment of the resources required at a global scale for the coming wave of urbanization. Using material flow analysis, the analysis of urban form and city organization, the assessment of ... -
Western Indian ocean environment outlook
The western Indian ocean environmental outlook report is part of UNEP project to produce state of the environment assessments countries of the Caribbean , Indian ocean and pacific , funded by DG VII of European commission . -
Why take a life cycle approach
(UNEP, 2004)The purpose of this brochure is to introduce a life cycle approach as one means to help us recognize opportunities, balance opportunities with risks and make choices that contribute value to our economies, our natural ... -
Why Value the Oceans? A Discussion Paper
(2012)This report seeks to draw attention to the economic benefits of ocean and coastal biodiversity and healthy ecosystems and emphasize the unrealized benefits of preserved and enhanced whole ecosystem structures, functions ... -
Wild Life, Wild Livelihoods: Involving communities on Sustainable Wildlife Management and Combating illegal Wildlife Trade
The report summarizes insights from decades of research on community wildlife management, and draws lessons from new analyses focused specifically on engaging Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in combating ... -
Wildland fires and the environment: a global synthesis
(UNEP, 1999)Fire has been an agent of disturbance for thousands of years. Forest and wildland fires have occurred long before the advent of humans, shaping landscape structure, pattern and ultimately the species composition of ecosystems. ... -
Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peace Building Potential
Thirteen years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, investment in women as agents of change in peacebuilding remains inadequate. One of the unexplored entry points for strengthening womens contributions ... -
Women, energy and water in the Himalayas: integration of women in planning and management
The policy guidelines were developed as part of the pilot project 'Incorporating Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia-Capacity Building in Rural Areas of the Himalayas'. Women ... -
Women, energy and water in the Himalayas: training of trainers manual
This Manual provides learning tools for carrying out gender analysis, mobilising communities, identifying prioritised needs and solutions, and designing and using gender sensitive participatory action planning in water and ... -
World Atlas of Desertification
(Edward Arnold, 1992)This atlas represents the current stage of our understanding of desertification, its extent and its possible solutions. One of the clearest ways to depict a global problem is to show it in an atlas. If it is true that one ... -