Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Strategic Action Plan for Land-based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine, Coastal, and Associated Fresh Water Environment in the Eastern African Region
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Overview of Land-based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine, Coastal and Associated Freshwater Environment in the Eastern African Region
Author: United Nations Environment ProgrammePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Africa Environment Outlook 2
Author: United NationsPublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9280726919
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support the continent's development. It also underscores the concept of sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of the environmental initiatives in supporting them.
Overview on Land-based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine, Coastal and Associated Freshwater Environment in the West and Central African Region
Author: United Nations Environment ProgrammePublisher:
ISBN: 9789280718003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This publication aims at assisting the countries of the West and Central African region in their efforts to protect the marine environment and achieve sustainable development. It provides data and information for a comprehensive regional review on land-based sources and activities affecting the quality of the marine, coastal and associated freshwater environment. It addresses natural conditions and processes, anthropogenic impacts and its socio-economic implications, including losses of cultural heritage sites. The overview also contains information on emerging and foreseeable problems in the region, proposing priorities for action, and regional and international activities for cooperation.
Estuaries: A Lifeline of Ecosystem Services in the Western Indian Ocean
Author: Salif DiopPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319253700
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book provides recent environmental, ecological and hydrodynamic information for the major estuaries and the coastal marine systems of the Western Indian Ocean Region. It covers various functions and values of the region’s estuarine ecosystems and their respective habitats, including the land/ocean interactions that define and impact ecosystem services. The Western Indian Ocean region covered by this volume consists of the continental coastal states of Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania and the island states of Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros.
Africa
Author: United Nations Environment ProgrammePublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9789280728712
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This stunning 400-page 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. There are more than 300 satellite images, 300 ground photographs and 150 maps, along with informative graphs and charts that give a vivid visual portrayal of Africa and its changing environment that provide scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the continent's environment over the past several decades. The observations and measurements of environmental change help gauge the extent of progress made by African countries towards reaching the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. More importantly, this book contributes to the knowledge and understanding that are essential for adaptation and remediation, and should be of immense value to all those who want to know more about Africa and who care about the future of this continent.
Overview of Land Based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine, Coastal and Associated Freshwater Environment in the West and Central African Region
Author: Pesticides
Author: Hamir S. RathorePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439836256
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Pesticides play an important role in controlling pests that carry diseases and threaten crop production. In recent years, however, there has been increased concern about the adverse impacts of pesticides and their degradation products on public health and the environment. A considerable amount of work is being done to develop nonchemical methods of
Protecting the Oceans from Land-based Activities
Author: International Organizations and the Law of the Sea
Author: Harm DotingaPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789041115614
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Now in its 15th year, "The NILOS Documentary Yearbook" provides the reader with an excellent collection of documents related to ocean affairs and the law of the sea, issued each year by organizations, organs and bodies of the United Nations system. Documents of the UN General Assembly, Meeting of State Parties to the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention, CLCS, ISBA, ITLOS, Follow-Up to the UN Straddling Fish Stocks and Small Island States Conferences, ECOSOC, UNEP, and UNCTAD are included first, followed by the documents of FAO, IAEA, IMO, and UNESCO/IOC. As in the previous volumes, documents which were issued in the course of 1999 are reproduced, while other relevant documents are listed. "The NILOS Documentary Yearbook" has proved to be of invaluable assistance in facilitating access by the community of scholars and practitioners in ocean affairs and the law of the sea to essential documentation. The entry of the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention into force on 16th November 1994 and of the Part XI Agreement on 28 July 1996, and progress in the implementation of Chapter 17 of Agenda 21, to be assessed at the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit, make continuation of this assistance of particular significance in the years to come. The members of the Yearbook's Advisory Board are: Judges Abdul Koroma and Shigeru Oda of the ICJ, Judges Thomas Mensah, Dolliver Nelson, and Tullio Treves of the ITLOS, as well as Rosalie Balkin, Edward Brown, Lee Kimball, Bernard Oxman, and Shabtai Rosenne.