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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...


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Financing Means and Sources

A Guide to Financing Export Projects

Series: Trade Development Services
( Print: November 2002 )

Financing Means and Sources - A Guide to Financing Export Projects focuses on means and sources of export project financing and their implications for developing countries, as well as ways of...

Financing Means and Sources - A Guide to Financing Export Projects focuses on means and sources of export project financing and their implications for developing countries, as well as ways of...


Manual on the Packaging of Furniture

Series: Trade Development Services
( Print: October 2001 )

This guide explains how furniture should be packaged for safe transit from the manufacturer to the final customer; examines damage to which various forms of furniture are susceptible and how it is...

This guide explains how furniture should be packaged for safe transit from the manufacturer to the final customer; examines damage to which various forms of furniture are susceptible and how it is...


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...


Eco-labelling and Other Environmental Quality Requirements in Textiles and Clothing

Implications for Developing Countries

Series: Trade Development Services
( Print: October 2001 )

This publication presents a selection of papers presented at the Workshop on Eco-labelling and other Environmental Quality Requirements for Trade of Developing Countries in Textiles and Clothing, held...

This publication presents a selection of papers presented at the Workshop on Eco-labelling and other Environmental Quality Requirements for Trade of Developing Countries in Textiles and Clothing, held...


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...