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Planet in Peril

An Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment

  • Author: UNEP
  • Publication date: May 2006
  • Page count: 38
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 06.III.D.36

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About the product

This Atlas, written by an international team of specialists, illustrates through text, beautifully rendered maps, graphics and diagrams the interplay between population and the world’s ecosystems and natural resources both in the short and long terms. The publication brings together a wealth of information from the most up-to-date sources on such key issues as climate change, access to water, exploitation of ocean resources, nuclear energy and waste, renewable energy, weapons of mass destruction, causes of industrial accidents, waste, export, hunger, genetically modified organisms, urban development, access to health care and ecological change in China.