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Dams and drainage schemes have transformed one of the finest wetlands, the Mesopotamian marshlands, into salt-encrusted desert. This study prepared by the United Nations Environmental Programme...

The fourth report in the Global Environment Outlook series provides a comprehensive, scientifically credible, policy-relevant and up-to-date assessment of, and outlook for, the state of the global...

The Global Environment Outlook is a major publication for all those who are interested in environmental issues. It has brought together thousands of scientists and hundreds of collaborating centres...

UNEP’s third Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-3) emphasizes that the next 30 years will be as crucial as the past 30 for shaping the future of the environment. It uses four scenarios to explore what...

This document provides an overview of the forest fire situation in Latin America and the Caribbean and the impact that they have had on the region and its population over the past few years. It...

UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook series provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of global environment, a review of policy response and an outlook for the future. The Outlook Chapter of GEO-3...

This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...

This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...

Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...

Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...

This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...

Legal policy and the diverse, complex and ambiguous verification processes are identified.

This research paper analyzes the highly ambiguous consequences of the Washington Treaty for security, common or individual, for strategic systems, for disarmament and for arms control, whether in...

This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...

This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...

This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...

Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...