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Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States

Results of the UNEP/UN DESA Foresight Process

Series: Small Island Developing States Series
( Print: November 2015, PDF: December 2015 )

The 2012 UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Global Environmental Issues primarily identified emerging environmental issues and possible solutions on a global scale and perspective. In 2013, UNEP...

The 2012 UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Global Environmental Issues primarily identified emerging environmental issues and possible solutions on a global scale and perspective. In 2013, UNEP...


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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SDG Pulse 2023

SDG Pulse 2023

UNCTAD Takes the Pulse of the SDGs

Series: SDG Pulse
( Print: December 2023, PDF: December 2023 )

SDG pulse provides quantitative assessments of progress with the 2030 Agenda through both a selection of official SDG indicators as well as complementary data and statistics. It also presents recent...

SDG pulse provides quantitative assessments of progress with the 2030 Agenda through both a selection of official SDG indicators as well as complementary data and statistics. It also presents recent...


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SDG Pulse 2022

UNCTAD Takes the Pulse of the SDGs

Series: SDG Pulse
( Print: April 2023, PDF: April 2023 )

SDG pulse provides quantitative assessments of progress with the 2030 Agenda through both a selection of official SDG indicators as well as complementary data and statistics. It also presents recent...

SDG pulse provides quantitative assessments of progress with the 2030 Agenda through both a selection of official SDG indicators as well as complementary data and statistics. It also presents recent...


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SDG Pulse 2021

UNCTAD Takes the Pulse of the SDGs

Series: SDG Pulse
( Print: January 2022, PDF: December 2021 )

This annual publication provides an update on the evolution of a selection of official SDG indicators and complementary data and statistics, highlighting progress on the development of new concepts...

This annual publication provides an update on the evolution of a selection of official SDG indicators and complementary data and statistics, highlighting progress on the development of new concepts...


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Trends in Sustainable Development

Small Island Developing States 2010

Series: Small Island Developing States Series
( Print: September 2010, PDF: April 2012 )

Issued in support of the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation for the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the report highlights the...

Issued in support of the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation for the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the report highlights the...


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Improving Employment Opportunities in Pacific Island Developing Countries

Series: Small Island Developing States Series
( Print: March 2008, PDF: April 2008 )

This regional study reviews the labour market in selected countries of the Pacific, the policies which are currently in place and current labour market operations as a result of these policies. It...

This regional study reviews the labour market in selected countries of the Pacific, the policies which are currently in place and current labour market operations as a result of these policies. It...


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...