Browsing UNEP Publications Pre-2023 by Author "Ecosystems Division"
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Environmental Guidelines for Watershed Development - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines, No. 3
United Nations Environment Programme (1982)Economic and development activities in watersheds can be manifold and the interactions between the physical, biologic and socio-economic factors very complex. Therefore, watershed management and development needs an ... -
Environmentally Sound Management of Lake Erhai and the Xi'er River Basin
United Nations Environment Programme; China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (2000)This report is the integrated result of the investigations, analyses, and syntheses carried out in the area by relevant departments of the Country, in cooperation with international agencies. It reports on the outcome of ... -
Executive Summary: State of Finance for Nature 2022 - Time to Act: Doubling Investment by 2025 and Eliminating Nature-negative Finance Flows
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-12)This second edition of the State of Finance for Nature (SFN) 2022 report i) expands analysis of capital flows to include marine nature-based solutions; ii) estimates the investment in NbS needed to limit climate change ... -
Financing the Blue Economy: Investments in Sustainable Blue Small–Medium Enterprises and Projects in Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Development Programme (2022-06)This joint report highlights opportunities for mobilizing investment for a sustainable blue economy in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs' limited access to capital makes ... -
Fire, Wood, Water: Reaping the Benefits - Exchange of Environmental Experience Series Book One
United Nations Environment Programme; Inforterra Programme Activity Centre (1988)This volume contains scientific findings, an historical overview, an analysis of managerial methods and the results of experimentation. While the views are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect national ... -
Forest Damage in Central European Mountains: Final Report of a Large Area Experiment for Forest Damage Monitoring in Europe Using Satellite Remote Sensing
United Nations Environment Programme (1995)The necessity to perform forest damage inventories arose with the occurrence of the first forest decline symptoms in large areas. The individual countries, participating in the LAOE, started from the beginning with research ... -
From Policy to Implementation: Decisions from the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
United Nations Environment Programme; Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2000)The fifth meeting was a time to review progress in the implementation of the Convention, to consolidate the gains achieved and to chart the course for the future. Central to this process was the review of the operations ... -
From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution
United Nations Environment Programme (2021)This assessment describes the far-reaching impacts of plastics across the planet and in our oceans. The assessment sets out to address four key questions to help guide future actions: • What can new research and evidence ... -
From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution - Synthesis
United Nations Environment Programme (2021)Key Findings: 1. Marine litter, including plastics and microplastics, has grown drastically and is projected to more than double by 2030. 2. Marine litter and plastics are a grave threat to all marine life and are influencing ... -
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands - Evidence for Action toward the Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainable Management of Peatlands
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-11)The goal of this assessment is to inform and inspire action in policy, research and practice that can help to protect, restore and sustainably manage peatlands now and long into the future. It provides a global overview ... -
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands - Evidence for Action toward the Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainable Management of Peatlands - Summary for Policy Makers
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-11) This is the Summary for Policy Makers of the Global Peatlands Assessment (GPA), written to assist decision-makers in advancing sustainable peatland management and encouraging urgent action for their conservation and ... -
Good Practices for Regulating Wastewater Treatment: Legislations, Policies and Standards
United Nations Environment ProgrammeThis report aims to provide an overview of wastewater legislation adopted by a range of developed and developing countries. -
Good Practices on Vulnerable Ecosystem Restoration in China
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-12)This report presents ten restoration good case studies from key vulnerable ecosystems in China. It is based on decades of restoration practices in major national restoration programmes, and science-based experiments from ... -
Greening Universities Toolkit: Transforming Universities into Green and Sustainable Campuses: A toolkit for Implementers
United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme, 2013)The focus of this Toolkit is to help address that gap – to provide University staff and students with a selection of strategies, tools and resources, gleaned from the literature, from global case studies and from practice ... -
A Guide to Assessing Coral Reef Resilience for Decision Support
United Nations Environment Programme (2017)This Guide supports environmental managers assess, map and monitor coral reef resilience, based on which management actions that support resilience in the face of climate change can be identified and prioritized. An overview ... -
A Guide to Tailings Dams and Impoundments: Design, Construction, Use and Rehabilitation
United Nations Environment Programme (1996)The design of sate tailings dams is discussed in detail and the control and ope-rational procedures necessary during the protracted construction of tailings dams are described. Many things can change during the construction ... -
Guidelines for Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation into National Adaptation Plans: Supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines
United Nations Environment Programme (2021)The Guidelines aim to guide adaptation practitioners at national and local levels on how to take different steps when factoring ecosystems functions and services into countries’ NAP processes and instruments. The Guidelines ... -
Guiding Principles for Delivering Coastal Wetland Carbon Projects
United Nations Environment Programme; Center for International Forestry Research (2014)This guidance document distills best practice principles for coastal wetland carbon projects, drawing on a long history of project development and implementation in fields of wetlands restoration, terrestrial carbon projects, ... -
Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone
United Nations Development Programme (2013-06)This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of an 18 month long assessment of the border between the two countries that share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola – Haiti, the poorest country in the ... -
Harnessing Nature to Build Climate Resilience: Scaling Up the Use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation
United Nations Environment Programme (2022-07)Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) has the potential to significantly enhance the resilience of society to climate change and could be a key part of national and global adaptation efforts. However, despite growing interest ...