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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...


Naciones Unidas y El Salvador 1990-1995, Las

Series: Serie de Libros Azules
( Print: April 1995 )

Las Naciones Unidas desempeñaron un papel central en el proceso de paz de El Salvador, que combinó el establecimiento y el mantenimiento de la paz; en especial la consolidación de la paz posterior al...

Las Naciones Unidas desempeñaron un papel central en el proceso de paz de El Salvador, que combinó el establecimiento y el mantenimiento de la paz; en especial la consolidación de la paz posterior al...


Naciones Unidas y los Derechos Humanos 1945-1995, Las

Series: Serie de Libros Azules
( Print: March 1996 )

Sobre la base de los principios de su Carta y de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, las Naciones Unidas se ha propuesto desde 1945 promover, defender y crear una cultura de respeto de...

Sobre la base de los principios de su Carta y de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, las Naciones Unidas se ha propuesto desde 1945 promover, defender y crear una cultura de respeto de...


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...