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Ordos Plateau of China, The
An Endangered Environment
Series: UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions
( Print: January 2000
)
The Ordos Plateau of China is an account of the regional human-environmental history of the Ordos Plateau, a dryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers and Mongolian shepherds. It surveys...
The Ordos Plateau of China is an account of the regional human-environmental history of the Ordos Plateau, a dryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers and Mongolian shepherds. It surveys...
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2020
Series: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
( PDF: October 2021
)
The year 2020 was supposed to be momentous—in a good way. Around the globe, world leaders and women’s rights activists had planned to celebrate the anniversaries of key legal and policy innovations...
The year 2020 was supposed to be momentous—in a good way. Around the globe, world leaders and women’s rights activists had planned to celebrate the anniversaries of key legal and policy innovations...
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2019
Series: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
( PDF: October 2021
)
Are we on track to achieve Goal 5? On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at UN Headquarters in New York to comprehensively review progress on the implementation of the...
Are we on track to achieve Goal 5? On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at UN Headquarters in New York to comprehensively review progress on the implementation of the...
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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021
Series: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
( PDF: September 2021
)
A year and a half into the pandemic, progress towards expanding women’s rights and opportunities continues to be tested and impeded. Women’s economic losses have not rebounded, hunger is on the rise...
A year and a half into the pandemic, progress towards expanding women’s rights and opportunities continues to be tested and impeded. Women’s economic losses have not rebounded, hunger is on the rise...
Regions at Risk
Comparisons of Threatened Environments
Series: UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions
( Print: February 1996
)
Nine critical environmental regions are examined through formal definitions and a detailed look into the concepts of environmental criticality and endangerment. This innovative study provides an up-to...
Nine critical environmental regions are examined through formal definitions and a detailed look into the concepts of environmental criticality and endangerment. This innovative study provides an up-to...
Amazonia
Resiliency and Dynamism of the Land and its People
Series: UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions
( Print: December 1997
)
The Amazon basin, site of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, is experiencing rapid ecological and socio-economic changes. This book examines the driving forces behind these changes...
The Amazon basin, site of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, is experiencing rapid ecological and socio-economic changes. This book examines the driving forces behind these changes...
In Place of the Forest
Environmental and Socio-Economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula
Series: UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions
( Print: January 1998
)
This book describes the course of the modern transformation of Borneo and the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula, an area considered to be 'environmentally critical' because of the massive...
This book describes the course of the modern transformation of Borneo and the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula, an area considered to be 'environmentally critical' because of the massive...