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World Youth Report: Youth and Climate Change
This Report is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people might be more effectively integrated as individuals and collective agents of change within the realm of climate change adaptation and mitigation. The Report is designed to assist youth and youth organizations in educating themselves and to become more actively involved in combating the threat of climate change. It is also meant to affirm the status of young people as key stakeholders in the fight against climate change. The publication comes at a time when efforts to address climate change are receiving unparalleled attention within the international arena, offering young people a unique opportunity for their voice to be heard in the debate.
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Evaluation of UNDP Contribution to Environmental Management for Poverty Reduction: The Poverty-Environment Nexus
The evaluation builds from the widely recognized assertion that poverty exacerbates environmental degradation and environmental damage reinforces poverty. The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP's) success at integrating these two aspects of its core mandate is very important for its credibility. Evaluation findings suggest that while UNDP is highly aware of the importance for sustainable development of the poverty-environment nexus, the articulation of this awareness throughout the organization is uneven. There are institutional disincentives to integration, including UNDP’s organization into practice areas and its dependence on external funding. These internal challenges notwithstanding, UNDP is ideally situated to strengthen partnerships within the UN System to coordinate action on poverty alleviation and environmental protection.
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: April 2011 ISBN: 9789211303032 Pages: 190 Price: $65.00
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Global Report on Human Settlements 2011: Cities and Climate Change
This publication reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significant contribution of urban areas to climate change while at the same time highlighting the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations. It reviews policy responses, strategies and practices that are emerging in urban areas to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as their potential achievements and constraints. In conclusion, the Report argues that urban areas have a pivotal role in both climate change mitigation and adaptation and identifies strategies and approaches for strengthening this role.
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Environment & Urban Issues
Publisher: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Publication Date: April 2011 ISBN: 9781849713719 Pages: 304 Price: $56.00
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The increasing frequency and scale of disasters over the last decade pose mounting economic and humanitarian challenges and necessitate effective management of disaster risk as an integral part of development planning. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) plays a significant role in disaster management, helping to formulate and implement disaster reduction policies and support recovery activities in more than 50 countries. The evaluation notes uneven progress amongst the UNDP country offices in integrating disaster risk reduction with other UNDP priorities such as poverty reduction, governance and environmental protection. The Report emphasizes UNDP’s most important role to assist countries in the development dimensions of the issue, especially risk reduction and vulnerability. It recommends that the UNDP disaster risk reduction strategy be revised to more directly address adaptation to climate change.
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Publication Date: March 2011 ISBN: 9789211263084 Pages: 120 Price: $18.00
The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequality and Urban Land Markets
Marine Scientific Research: A Revised Guide to the Implementation of the Relevant Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
This Report goes above and beyond the first Report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, this Report sheds more light on inequity in African cities, and in this respect follows the main theme of the global State of the World’s Cities 2010 Report. Through an analytical survey of several African cities, the Report examines urban growth, social conditions in slums, environmental and energy issues and the role of urban land markets in accessing land and housing. This Report delves into the main urban challenges facing African cities, while provoking dialogue and discussion on the role of African cities in improving national, regional and local economies through sustainable and equitable development.
This publication includes, among other things, practical guidance on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Law of the Sea relating to marine scientific research based on the outcome of the meeting of the Group of Experts. The General Assembly of the United Nations has consistently highlighted the importance of marine science for eradicating poverty, contributing to food security, conserving the world's marine environment and resources, helping to understand, predict and respond to natural events and promoting the sustainable development of the oceans and seas.
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: February 2011 ISBN: 9789211336955 Pages: 84 Price: $22.00
Publisher: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Publication Date: April 2011 ISBN: 9789211322910 Pages: 276 Price: $35.00
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Evaluation of UNDP Contribution to Disaster Prevention and Recovery
Climate Change and Global Sustainability: A Holistic Approach
Private Forest Ownership in Europe Geneva Timber and Forest Study Papers
Climate change owing to global warming is a paramount concern for society in the 21st century, and it is not an issue that can be solved by individual academic or scientific disciplines working in isolation. Because climate change involves a wide range of interlinked problems, solutions must be pursued in an interdisciplinary manner. This book adopts just such a holistic approach in examining various aspects of global warming, and offers readers a comprehensive overview of the problem.
More than half of Europe's forests, not including Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, are privately owned. Private owners play a key role in sustaining forest ecosystems, enhancing rural development and supplying resources to markets. This study paper presents the main findings from the national country Reports and draws conclusions on the state of private forestry in Europe in terms of ownership distribution, holding structure, socioeconomic findings and trends, with regard to restitution/privatization, changes of ownership patterns and association of private forest owners.
Publisher: United Nations University (UNU) Publication Date: March 2011 ISBN: 9789280811810 Pages: 336 Price: $35.00
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: February 2011 ISBN: 9789211170344 Pages: 116 Price: $25.00
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Designing Our Future: Local Perspectives on Bioproduction, Ecosystems and Humanity
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3
This third edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook, produced by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, presents some stark choices for human societies. On one hand it warns that the diversity of living things on the planet continues to be eroded as a result of human activities. The pressures driving the loss of biodiversity show few signs of easing, and in some cases are escalating. The consequences of current trends are much worse than previously thought, and place in doubt the continued provision of vital ecosystem services. On the other hand, the Outlook offers a message of hope. The options for addressing the crisis are wider than was apparent in earlier studies. Determined action to conserve biodiversity and use it sustainably will reap rich rewards. It will benefit people in many ways — through better health, greater food security and less poverty. Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This volume focuses primarily on society at the local and regional levels and on a scenario in which human beings coexist harmoniously with nature. This ideal society is examined in terms of the relationships between villages or towns and their natural environment. It also looks at how these villages and towns can achieve local or regional independence in the face of pressures toward centralization and globalization. This book highlights the importance of developing a society in harmony with nature through the networking of diverse communities to promote and achieve local independence.
Publisher: United Nations University (UNU) Publication Date: March 2011 ISBN: 9789280811834 Pages: 504 Price: $39.00
Publication Date: February 2011 ISBN: 9789292252205 Pages: 94 Price: $40.00
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Environment & Urban Issues
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Publication Date: March 2011 ISBN: 9789211263114 Pages: 112 Price: $18.00
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