Sustainable Coastal Tourism: An Intergrated Planning and Management Approach
This handbook was conceived as a practical tool to be used by decision-makers and practitioners in both the tourism sector and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). It provides a kind of "two-way" scheme allowing for the integration of tourism strategic planning into the wider process of ICZM on one hand and, on the other, for the application of the ICZM approach in tourism development. The handbook has two main parts. Its main body tackles all important issues related to coastal tourism and its positive and negative impacts on natural environment and society, as well as various planning and management schemes for tourism, with particular reference to ICZM. Individual steps of the proposed process of strategic planning for coastal tourism, based on the concept of Carrying Capacity Assessment, are presented in an Annex with all the details indicating when, how and by whom to undertake these steps.
Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Publication Date: February 2011 ISBN: 9789280729665 Pages: 168 Price: $40.00
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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012
This Report provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and of some key global economic policy and development issues. One of its purposes is to serve as a point of reference for discussions on economic, social and related issues taking place in various United Nations entities during the year.
Publication Agency: United Nations Publication Date: January 2012 ISBN: 9789211091649 Pages: 200 Price: $30.00
The central theme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the "Earth Summit", of 1992 was AGENDA 21 — the action plan developed to lead environmental development into the 21st century with its goal of sustainable life on Earth. This landmark publication provides the complete final text of "Agenda 21", as well as the Rio Declaration and Forest Principles.
Forthcoming
Publisher: United Nations Reprint Date: January 2011 ISBN: 9789211005097 Pages: 300 Price: $25.00
The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history: half of the world’s people — and half of the world’s children — live in cities today. Urbanization is linked with economic development. But while urban growth continues at great pace, adequate services and infrastructure do not automatically follow, with urgent implications for children. This publication explores the challenges to child rights in a rapidly urbanized world marked by economic uncertainty, unemployment, increased prevalence of conflict, humanitarian emergencies and climate change. It documents and examines existing knowledge and programmatic approaches to the multiple and complex realities of urban poverty and deprivation. It makes a call for areaspecific approaches, grounded in communities and in partnership with municipal authorities.
Environment & Urban Issues
Publisher: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Publication Date: January 2012 ISBN: 9789280645972 Pages: 160 Price: $25.00
Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Financing of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Forthcoming
This new Report focuses on the global trends in sustainable energy development, covering both the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors. It shows that in spite of the global economic downturn, investment in sustainable energy is still strong.
Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Publication Date: January 2011 ISBN: 9789280730852 Pages: 60 Price: $35.00
Human Development Report 2011
This Report examines the urgent global challenge of sustainable development, and its relationship to rising inequality within and among countries. It strives to identify polices that would make development both more sustainable and more equitable. The integral relationship between inequality and unsustainability is recognized. The inequitably apportioned control and consumption of natural resources is a key driver of global warming — and yet those who will suffer most from climate change are disproportionately those least responsible for environmental deterioration. The Report seeks to identify ways in which sustainability and equity can be jointly advanced. It examines long-term trends in inequality at national and global levels, and argues why it is essential to promote practices today that will both increase sustainability and reduce inequality for future generations.
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Publication Date: November 2011 ISBN: 9780230363311 Pages: 180 Price: $43.00
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Economic and Social Studies
Agenda 21: Earth Summit - The United Nations Programme of Action from Rio
The Least Developed Countries Report 2011: Exploring the Role of South-South Cooperation and Integration for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development
In the light of the current economic difficulties facing traditional development partners and the nonsustainable and non-inclusive nature of performance of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) over the last decade, LDC governments need to fashion new development paths which tap into dynamic growth poles in the South. This Report explores the role of South-South cooperation and regional developmentalism, and finds that, in order to benefit from evolving South-South relations, LDCs need to transform into Catalytic Development States that are highly sensitive to LDC vulnerabilities and offer new policy agendas. This entails defining relations between LDCs and their Southern development partners to derive gains and minimize threats.
Publisher: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Publication Date: November 2011 ISBN: 9789211128352 Price: $50.00
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Illicit Financial Flows Resulting From Drug Trafficking and Other Transnational Organized Crime
The issue of illicit capital flows has emerged as one that is central to the mandate of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): garnered through the proceeds of illicit trafficking and other forms of organized profit-motivated crime, dirty money promotes bribery and corruption and finances insurgency. It also destabilizes and deters legitimate enterprise, foreign investment and development. This Report provides an analytical overview of the nature of illicit financial flows, a case study of the transnational cocaine market, an overview of the socioeconomic impacts, as well as the existing international instruments to tackle this problem.
Publisher: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Publication Date: November 2011 ISBN: 9789211303117
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