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Sustainable Development and Certification in the Russian Forest Sector

Series: Discussion Papers on Sustainable Forest Management
( Print: September 2002 )

This publication provides information on the most recent developments in the area of sustainable forest management and certification in the forest industry in the northwestern region of the Russian...

This publication provides information on the most recent developments in the area of sustainable forest management and certification in the forest industry in the northwestern region of the Russian...


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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Sustainable Development and Biofuel Use as a Way Towards the Kyoto Protocol Implementation and...

Series: Discussion Papers on Sustainable Forest Management
( Print: April 2005, PDF: October 2006 )

This publication is the first of a series of discussion papers on sustainable forest management published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in English and Russian. The...

This publication is the first of a series of discussion papers on sustainable forest management published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in English and Russian. The...


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...