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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...


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...


Next Millennium, The

Cities for People in a Globalizing World

Series: ODS Roundtable Series
( Print: November 1996 )

This report provides a summary account of all the main policy messages which emanated from the extremely rich and comprehensive debates at Marmaris, Turkey. The complete programme of the Roundtable is...

This report provides a summary account of all the main policy messages which emanated from the extremely rich and comprehensive debates at Marmaris, Turkey. The complete programme of the Roundtable is...


Money Matters

Private Finance for Sustainable Human Development

Series: ODS Roundtable Series
( Print: April 1997 )

Private capital flows have been increasing sharply since the beginning of the 1990s. What are the reasons and what should be done to ensure that funding could be upkept? Observe as author Hugh Peyman...

Private capital flows have been increasing sharply since the beginning of the 1990s. What are the reasons and what should be done to ensure that funding could be upkept? Observe as author Hugh Peyman...


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...