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Overview > Overview Materials
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| Title | | | | Basic Economic Indicators |
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| Author | | | | World Resources Institute |
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| Abstract | | | | This site is chapter 7 of the report World Resources 1996-97, an authoritative primary reference volume on global environmental and natural resource conditions and trends for the United Nations, World Bank, and related international organizations. As a printed book, the whole report is 384 p., including 162 pages of data tables (economic tables located at http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/wr96dtei.pdf
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/wr96dtei.pdf and covers 150 ì
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| URL: | | | | http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/ei_txt1.html |
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| Title | | | | Biological Diversity: What it is and Why it is Important |
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| Author | | | | World Resources Institute |
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| Abstract | | | | "Our species entered the industrial age with a population of one billion and with biological diversity--the total of genes, species, and ecosystems on earth--possibly at an all-time high. Biological resources--the portion of diversity of actual or potential use to people--were freely available for exploitation to support development." |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.wri.org/biodiv/cwb-i.html |
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| Title | | | | Capacity 21 in Review |
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| Author | | | | United Nations Development Programme |
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| Abstract | | | | "This report gives an overview of the first three years experience of Capacity 21. Along with the summaries that have been prepared for each programme, and three independent reviews, it should allow the reader an insight into the successes and difficulties of countries that are implementing Agenda 21. Many years will be needed before the effects of Agenda 21 are felt. UNDP's Capacity 21 has made a small start down a long, but ultimately rewarding, road." |
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| Affiliation | | | | United Nations |
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| URL: | | | | http://www3.undp.org/c21/reports/96.htm |
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| Title | | | | Demography and Population Studies |
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| Author | | | | Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies |
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| Abstract | | | | This site keeps track of leading information facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in the field of demography. Currently this page contains 155 links to demographic information facilities world-wide. |
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Link List |
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| Affiliation | | | | Australian National University |
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| URL: | | | | http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/ |
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| Title | | | | Environment Delphi Reports |
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| Author | | | | The Millennium Project |
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| Abstract | | | | Reports on Population and Environment describe the results of two-rounds of Delphi inquiries,
conducted to gather judgements from an international panel consisting of futurists, scholars,
and interested participants. In the Population inquiries, participants were asked to rate some
forces that led to the reduction of the world population growth rate from 2.06% in the late 1960s
to 1.7% currently and to assess how these forces might change over the next 25 years." In the
Environment inquiries, participants addressed "reasons why population growth may led to
environmental degradation" and other forces affecting the environment." |
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| Affiliation | | | | American Council for the United Nations University |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.acunu.org/millennium/environ.html |
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| Title | | | | Florida Ecosystems: Freshwater Swamps |
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| Author | | | | Florida Internet Community for Understanding Sustainability |
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| Abstract | | | | "Swamps are simply forested wetlands. However, do not take this simple definition to imply that all swamps are the same. Indeed, the swamp ecosystem is incredibly diverse, in Florida as well as the rest of the world. Approximately ten percent of the land area of the state is covered by forested wetlands, divided into 13 types of swamps." |
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| Affiliation | | | | University of South Florida: School of Architecture and Community Planning |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.ficus.usf.edu/docs/fl_ecosystem/freshwat/fr-swamp.htm |
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| Title | | | | Florida Ecosystems: Marine, Beaches and Dunes |
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| Author | | | | Florida Internet Community for Understanding Sustainability |
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| Abstract | | | | "Florida has almost 1,200 nautical miles of coastline, is surrounded by water on three sides, and encompasses several climatc zones. As a result, its coastal ecosystems are vast and diverse. They include sandy beaches backed by dunes, coastal strands, maritime forests, barrier islands, and the tropical Florida Keys. (See Chapter 6 on The Florida Everglades for more information on an ecosystem that includes both coastal and freshwater communities.) " |
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| Affiliation | | | | Florida Internet Community for Understanding Sustainability |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.ficus.usf.edu/docs/fl_ecosystem/marine/ma-dune.htm |
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| Title | | | | Global Environmental Outlook - 1 (1997) |
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| Author | | | | United Nations Environment Programme |
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| Abstract | | | | This first issue of the biennial Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a snapshot of an ongoing
worldwide environmental assessment process. " Includes:Executive Summary
The Global Environment Outlook Process
Regional Perspectives (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS Countries, Latin
America and the Caribbean, North America, West Asia, Polar Regions [Arctic,
Antarctic])
Policy Responses and Directions:
-- Current Changes in Approaches to Environmental Policy
-- Summary of Regional Policy Responses (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS
Countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, West Asia, Polar Regions
[Arctic, Antarctic])
Looking to the Future:
-- The General Setting
-- Forces Driving Change (Population Growth, Economic)
-- Climate Change and Acidification
-- Use of Land
-- Pressures on Natural Habitats
-- Human Health" |
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| Affiliation | | | | United Nations |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.grida.no/prog/global/geo1/index.htm |
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| Peer Review | | | | External Review Process |
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| Title | | | | Global Environmental Trends |
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| Author | | | | World Resources Institute |
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| Abstract | | | | "This collection, from World Resources 1998-99,
provides both an overview of progress to date on
sustainable development and an in-depth look at
certain especially critical issues, such as the extent
of threats to the world's forests." |
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Web Site |
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| Affiliation | | | | World Resources Institute |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.wri.org/wri/powerpoints/trends/sld006.htm |
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| Title | | | | International Conference on Population and Development: Programme of Action |
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| Author | | | | United Nations |
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| Abstract | | | | This Programme of Action was the result of the 1992 International Conference on
Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. The chapters of the Programme of Action
address various aspects of the relationship between population and environment. Includes:1.Preamble
2.Principles
3.Interrelationships between population, sustained economic growth and sustainable
Development
4.Gender equality, equity and empowerment of women
5.The family, its roles, rights, composition and structure
6.Population growth and structure
7.Reproductive rights and reproductive health
8.Health, morbidity and mortality
9.Population distribution, urbanization and internal migration
10.International migration
11.Population, development and education
12.Technology, research and development
13.National Action
14.International cooperation
15.Partnership with the non-governmental sector
16.Follow-up to the conference |
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Treaty Text |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.cnie.org/pop/icpd/ |
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| Peer Review | | | | Negotiation Review Process |
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| Title | | | | Now We Are Six, Conversation with Dr. Nafis Sadik |
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| Author | | | | Jim Motavalli |
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| Abstract | | | | Areticle and interview from the July-August, 1999 issue of E/The Environmental
Magazine.Feature artcle Now We Are Six asks In October, World Population Will Reach Six
Billion. Can the Earth Carry the Load?" The Conversation with Dr. Nafis Sadik
is an interview with the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) about
UN population programs." |
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Magazine Article a |
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| Affiliation | | | | E/The Environmental Magazine |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.emagazine.com/july-august_1999/_0799contents.html |
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| Title | | | | Population and the Environment |
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| Author | | | | Council on Environmental Quality |
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| Abstract | | | | This is a pdf file requiring Adome Acrobat or equivelent software to be viewed. This is chapter four of the report, "Environmnetal Quality: The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report of the Council on Environmental Quality" and provides a general overview of the issue of population and environment. |
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| Affiliation | | | | Office of the President of the United States |
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| URL: | | | | http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/reports/1994-95/chap04.pdf |
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