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Profiting from Green Consumerism in Germany, Opportunities for Developing Countries in Three Sectors

Leather and Footwear, Textiles and Clothing, and Furniture

Series: Analytical Studies on Trade, Environment and Development
( Print: October 1999 )

Green consumerism has been on the rise in Germany and is increasingly bearing upon markets of key export interest to developing countries. This publication reviews the consequences of this phenomenon...

Green consumerism has been on the rise in Germany and is increasingly bearing upon markets of key export interest to developing countries. This publication reviews the consequences of this phenomenon...


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Economic Aspects of Development of Agricultural Alternatives to Tobacco Production and Export...

Series: Analytical Studies on Trade, Environment and Development
( Print: September 2002 )

This report assesses a number of potential agricultural alternatives to production and export marketing of tobacco from Malawi. It provides analysis and findings on current profitability of...

This report assesses a number of potential agricultural alternatives to production and export marketing of tobacco from Malawi. It provides analysis and findings on current profitability of...


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World Cities Report 2016

Urbanization and Development - Emerging Futures

Series: World Cities Report
( Print: July 2016, PDF: July 2016 )

The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and...

The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and...


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World Cities Report 2022

World Cities Report 2022

Envisaging the Future of Cities

Series: World Cities Report
( Print: August 2023, PDF: November 2022 )

This edition of the World Cities Report seeks to provide greater clarity and insights into the future of cities based on existing trends, challenges and opportunities, as well as disruptive conditions...

This edition of the World Cities Report seeks to provide greater clarity and insights into the future of cities based on existing trends, challenges and opportunities, as well as disruptive conditions...


Rubber and the Environment

Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the...

Series: Analytical Studies on Trade, Environment and Development
( Print: August 2000 )

This publication reviews two specific aspects of the cycle of rubber products. The first one, is the use of international instruments for making scrap tyre management as environmentally sound as...

This publication reviews two specific aspects of the cycle of rubber products. The first one, is the use of international instruments for making scrap tyre management as environmentally sound as...


Technical Problems in the Verification of a Ban on Space Weapons

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: October 1993 )

This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...

This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...


Index to the Chemical Weapons Convention

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: October 1993 )

This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...

This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...


Migration and Population Change in Europe

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: November 1993 )

Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...

Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...


Crisis in the Balkans

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: December 1993 )

Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...

Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...


Regional Security and Confidence-building Processes

The Case of Southern Africa

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: May 1993 )

This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...

This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...


Legal Approach to Verification in Disarmament or Arms Limitation

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers

Legal policy and the diverse, complex and ambiguous verification processes are identified.

Legal policy and the diverse, complex and ambiguous verification processes are identified.


Verification Problems of the Washington Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-range Missiles

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers

This research paper analyzes the highly ambiguous consequences of the Washington Treaty for security, common or individual, for strategic systems, for disarmament and for arms control, whether in...

This research paper analyzes the highly ambiguous consequences of the Washington Treaty for security, common or individual, for strategic systems, for disarmament and for arms control, whether in...


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World Cities Report 2020

The Value of Sustainable Urbanization

Series: World Cities Report
( Print: October 2020, PDF: October 2020 )

In a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected...

In a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected...


Third Review of the Biological Weapons Convention, The

Issues and Proposals

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: August 1991 )

This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...

This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...


Disarmament, Environment, and Development and Their Relevance to the Least Developed Countries

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: March 1992 )

This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...

This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...


Implications of IAEA Inspections Under Security Council Resolutions 687, The

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: August 1992 )

This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...

This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...


Security Council Resolution 687 of 3 April 1991 in the Gulf Affair

Problems of Restoring and Safeguarding Peace

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: October 1992 )

Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...

Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...


Non-proliferation Treaty, The

How to Remove the Residual Threats

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: January 1993 )

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...


Ukraine's Non-nuclear Option

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: February 1993 )

On 14 January 1992, Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's President reiterated that Ukraine has no need for nuclear capable men-of-war. The Ukraine with the third largest nuclear capability in the world...

On 14 January 1992, Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's President reiterated that Ukraine has no need for nuclear capable men-of-war. The Ukraine with the third largest nuclear capability in the world...


Access to Outer Space Technologies

Implications for International Security

Series: UNIDIR Research Papers
( Print: May 1993 )

Technological conquests in outer space and the potential implication for international security has demanded a forum for the discussion of priorities, confidence-building measures in outer space...

Technological conquests in outer space and the potential implication for international security has demanded a forum for the discussion of priorities, confidence-building measures in outer space...