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Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international...

Official Records of the Report of the Board of Auditors on UN Institute for Training and Research for Year ended 31 December 2009.

The Bolivia Summit of the Americas declared in 1996 that despite extensive efforts by countries in the Americas to improve water use and management, demand continues to rise while contamination has...

By the year 2025, it is estimated that more than two-thirds of the world's population will be urban dwellers. In Water for Urban Areas, leading experts offer unique insights into varied issues of...

Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Current technologies and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and...

This official report of the Board of Auditors transmits to the General Assembly the financial report and audited financial statements of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research for the...

This is the transmittal of the report of the Board of Auditors on the financial statements for the biennium ended 31 December 2013

Official Records of the Financial Report and audited financial statements for the biennium ended 31 December 2011 and Report of the Board of Auditors for United Nations Institute for Training and...

Due to the large disparity in the availability of water between the wet northern region and the drier south parts of Southern Africa, water management has become an issue of critical importance to...

Official Records of the Financial Report and audited financial statements for the biennium ended 31 December 2005 and Report of the Board of Auditors for United Nations Institute for Training and...

Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year Ended 31 December 2015 and Report of the Board of Auditors: United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s...

This book studies the processes which lead to the explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for...

Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. True for both developing and developed countries, this increasing economic insecurity is harmful...

The oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface and play an important part in our lives by controlling climate and weather conditions; hosting shipping, transportation, recreation and...

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins contain the largest number of the world's poor in any one region. The population is increasing steadily and unless the current development trends are broken...

This book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty...