Featured Publications
Kenya State of the Environment and Outlook 2010This state of the environment (SoE) report profiles Kenya's environmental resources as an asset for the country's development. To this end, the report highlights the opportunities presented by Kenya's natural resource base to support Vision 2030. It also assesses the state and threats to key resources including land, water, wetlands, biodiversity, forests, coastal and marine resources. In addition, issues related to economics, poverty and gender; and their interlinkages with the environment are discussed.
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Keeping Track of Our Changing EnvironmentThis innovative publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major global environmental, economic and social changes since 1992. The numbers tell the story of how, in twenty years, the world has changed more than most of us could have ever imagined. The report has been produced within the framework of UNEP's fifth Global Environment Outlook assessment report, which will be published in May 2012 in advance of Rio+20.
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GEO 4The fourth GEO assessment is a comprehensive and authoritative UN report on environment, development and human well-being for decision making. |
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Africa: Atlas of Our Changing EnvironmentThis atlas is a unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. Using current and historical satellite images, the Atlas provides scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the continent's environment over the past several decades. |
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Africa Lakes: Atlas of Our Changing EnvironmentThrough a combination of ground photographs, current and historical satellite images, and narrative based on extensive scientific evidence, this publication illustrates how humans have altered their surroundings and continue to make observable and measurable changes to the Africa's lakes and its environment. |
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One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing EnvironmentIncreasing concern as to how human activities impact the Earth has led to documentation and quantification of environmental changes taking place on land, in the water, and in the air. Through a combination of ground photographs, current and historical satellite images, and narrative based on extensive scientific evidence, this publication illustrates how humans have altered their surroundings and continue to make observable and measurable changes to the global environment. |
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Recent Trends in Melting Glaciers,Tropospheric Temperatures over the Himalayas and Summer Monsoon Rainfall over IndiaThere are growing concerns about the impact melting glaciers in the Himalayas will have on about 1.5 billion people of vulnerable densely populated communities in downstream river basins. Yet there is huge uncertainty about how snow and glacial melting in the Himalayan region will continue to respond to climate change, and how such change will aff ect ecosystems and human well-being. |
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Environmental Indicators for North AmericaNorth America's environment—air currents, watersheds, and wildlife and their habitat—is not dissected by political borders. But Canada and the United States often measure environmental conditions and report on them using different indicators. This report examines the environmental indicators used by both nations, suggests a way develop a set of North American indicators, and using a number of common indictors, provides a snapshot of the level of progress being made in protecting the environmental assets and services that underpin North America's economy.
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Analyzing Environmental Trends using Satellite Data: Selected CasesAn analysis of recent and historical satellite imagery collected over the past forty years was carried out for Lake Chad in West Africa, the Sundarbans along the India-Bangladesh border, Papua in Indonesia, the Paranaense Forest around Itaipú Dam, and the Harran Plain in southeastern Turkey to provide scientific evidence of environmental change taking place in these ecologically significant regions of the world. (PDF 5.4mb) |
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Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing EnvironmentFocusing on a number of "hot spots" by using state-of-the-art remote sensing and spacial data intergration techniques, this publication exams diverse themes ranging from forest cover and urban sprawl to emerging urban growth centers and collapsing ice shelfs by comparing satellite imagery over a 30 year period.
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Atlas of International Freshwater AgreementsAlmost half of the Earth's land surface lies within international river basins. The physical, economic and social disparities between riparian nations that share river basins make their management complex. International treaties and agreements serve to provide structure to allow nations to address these disparities within a legal framework. This structure may provide for joint management and monitoring of the resources to support sustainable development of the water resources, including management of water flow, water quality, and infrastructure development. Report created by Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD). Original files found at Oregon State University's site:
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Making Science for Sustainable Development More Policy Relevant: New Tools for AnalysisTo date there has been no comprehensive evaluation of the major scientific
assesments of the past two decades that address questions like, what topics have been covered?
Are there important topic gaps? What are the successes and failures? This report
proposes that the relevant international scientific organizations, in co-operation with
intergovernmental organizations jointly undertake such a comprehensive evalutation.
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North America's Environment: A Thirty–Year State of the Environment and Policy RetrospectiveFocusing on UNEP's North American region, comprised of Canada and the United States, this report provides an integrated analysis of the state of resource assests and 30–year trends in nine major themes: atmosphere, biodiversity, coastal and marine areas, disasters, freshwater, forests, human health and the environment, land, and urban areas.(HTML) |
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GEO3 ReportA global environmental assessment process, the GEO Process, that is cross-sectoral and participatory. It incorporates regional views and perceptions, and builds consensus on priority issues and actions through dialogue among policy-makers and scientists at regional and global levels. (Offsite HTML) |
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Satellite Images for Land Cover Monitoring
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An Assessment of the Status of the World's
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