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Criminal Victimization in Countries in Transition

Series: UNICRI Monograph
( Print: May 1999 )

This publication presents a synthesis of the results of the 1996-97 International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) carried out in 20 countries in transition. A companion to the International Crime Victim...

This publication presents a synthesis of the results of the 1996-97 International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) carried out in 20 countries in transition. A companion to the International Crime Victim...


International Crime Victim Survey in Countries in Transition, The

National Reports

Series: UNICRI Monograph
( Print: May 1999 )

This volume presents the complete national reports of 20 countries in transition that took part in the 1996-97 International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS), and accompanies Criminal Victimisation in...

This volume presents the complete national reports of 20 countries in transition that took part in the 1996-97 International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS), and accompanies Criminal Victimisation in...


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...


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...


Victims of Crime in the Developing World

Series: UNICRI Monograph
( Print: May 1999 )

With surveys of fourteen countries, this publication presents a comparative criminological and developmental perspective. Its discussion of victimization rates by type of crime, policing in the...

With surveys of fourteen countries, this publication presents a comparative criminological and developmental perspective. Its discussion of victimization rates by type of crime, policing in the...


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...