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United Nations Environment Programme

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Works:10,166 works in 13,474 publications in 28 languages and 193,080 library holdings
Roles:Editor, Other, Collaborator, Publisher
Classifications:ra1190, 363.179
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Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity( Book )
3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,635 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, Sustaining Life is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, along with more than 100 leading scientists who contributed to writing and reviewing the book, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive-and sobering-view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. The book's ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world's richly varied biota. Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth, provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction. Drawing on the latest research, but written in language a general reader can easily follow, Sustaining Life argues that we can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, nor assume that we will not be harmed by its alteration. Our health, as the authors so vividly show, depends on the health of other species and on the vitality of natural ecosystems. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.
World resources : a report by the World Resources Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development( Journal / Magazine / Newspaper )
in English and held by 1,457 libraries worldwide
Vital signs : the trends that are shaping our future( Journal / Magazine / Newspaper )
in English and held by 1,358 libraries worldwide
World atlas of biodiversity : earth's living resources in the 21st century by Brian Groombridge( Book )
4 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 1,055 libraries worldwide
A web site from the United Nations Environment Programmes World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC). Like other GIS-based programs, the features of this Web site can be useful in demonstrating spatial patterns of environmental problems. Users can choose from dozens of map layers (derived from biodiversity and related data) to superimpose on geographical maps of the planet on a global, regional, or even local scale. Manipulating the maps is relatively straightforward. For example, to explore the correlation between human population density and bird extinctions in North America, drag a box around the continent, select Human Population Density and Bird Extinctions from the map layer mother features. Users should note that the graphics can make this site very slow to load, and no maps are currently available for the categories Diversity of Organisms and Biodiversity Through Time.
The picture of health : environmental sources of disease by Erik P Eckholm( Book )
2 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 942 libraries worldwide
Life counts : cataloguing life on earth( Book )
2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 919 libraries worldwide
Six billion people live on earth, but we share the planet with trillions of other life-forms, ranging from bacteria to whales. They make up life's infrastructure and are in effect the underpinnings of human existence. Life counts shows why we must preserve this biodiversity: if we don't, scientists predict, the earth may lose the ability to support its inhabitants within the next fifty years. Through color illustrations and narration, readers learn that each animal on earth--whose numbers are greater than our galaxy's stars--as well as each plant and each microbe, plays a role essential to the life of the planet and, in surprising ways, human economies and health. The authors weigh scientist's and international governments' best ideas on how we can protect these living things and hence our world. Life counts: a worldwide balance sheet is part of the larger Life Counts Project, designed to raise awareness across the globe of the importance of the world's biodiversity.
Pollution prevention and abatement handbook, 1998 toward cleaner production( Book )
13 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 844 libraries worldwide
This handbook promotes the concepts of sustainable development by focusing attention on the environmental and economic benefits of pollution prevention, including cleaner production and good management techniques. Includes guidelines for 40 industry sectors.
Environmental data report( Book )
19 editions published between 1987 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 671 libraries worldwide
One planet, many people : atlas of our changing environment( Book )
7 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 671 libraries worldwide
Compares and contrasts satellite images of the past few decades with contemporary ones, illustrating dramatic changes in the environment.
Global environment outlook( Journal / Magazine / Newspaper )
16 editions published between 1997 and 2002 in English and held by 656 libraries worldwide
Global biodiversity strategy : guidelines for action to save, study, and use earth's biotic wealth sustainably and equitably( Book )
2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 611 libraries worldwide
Global biodiversity assessment( Book )
5 editions published between 1993 and 1995 in English and held by 510 libraries worldwide
Global resources and international conflict : environmental factors in strategic policy and action( Book )
5 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 506 libraries worldwide
Caring for the earth( Book )
2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 506 libraries worldwide
Gives an overview of the 2nd world conservation strategy, Caring for the earth : a strategy for sustainable living, published in partnership by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Radiation : doses, effects, risks( Book )
6 editions published between 1985 and 1991 in English and held by 489 libraries worldwide
Greenhouse earth by Annika Nilsson( Book )
6 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 478 libraries worldwide
Principles for evaluating health risks to reproduction associated with exposure to chemicals( Book )
5 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 465 libraries worldwide
Water quality assessments : a guide to the use of biota, sediments, and water in environmental monitoring( Book )
15 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and held by 463 libraries worldwide
Environmental impacts of macroeconomic and sectoral policies( Book )
8 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 443 libraries worldwide
Techniques in bioproductivity and photosynthesis( Book )
6 editions published between 1982 and 1987 in English and held by 428 libraries worldwide
 
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World atlas of biodiversity : earth's living resources in the 21st century
Alternative Names

Nations unies Politique de l'environnement

United Nations

Agenda ONZ ds. Ochrony Środowiska.
Barnāmaj al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah lil-Bīʼah
FN:s miljöprogram
Fonds du Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement
I︠U︡NEP
Kokuren Kankyō Keikaku
Lian he guo huan jing gui hua shu
Naciones Unidas Programa para el Medio Ambiente
Nations Unies. Assemblée générale. Programme pour l'environnement
Nations Unies. Environment Programme
Nations Unies. Fonds du Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement
Nations-Unies. Fonds du programme pour l'environnement
Nations-Unies. Programa para el medio ambiente
Nations Unies. Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement
Nations Unies Programme pour l'environnement
Nations Unies. Programme sur l'environnement
Organizace spojených národů. Environment Programme czeeng
Organizace spojených národů. Program OSN pro životní prostředí
Organizace spojených národů. Program pro životní prostředí
P.N.U.M.A.
PNUE.
PNUE (Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement)
PNUMA.
PNUMA/Rola
Program Ochrony Środowiska Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych.
Program Środowiska ONZ.
Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambienta.
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el medio ambiente
Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
Programa para el Medio Ambiente
Programa para o Meio Ambiente
Programma OON po okruzhai︠u︡shcheĭ srede
Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement
Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement czefre
Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement. Fonds
Programme des Nations Unies sur l'environnement
Programme pour l'Environnement
U.N.E.P.
Umweltprogramm
Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen
Umweltschutz-Programm
UN Environmental Programme
UNEP.
UNEP czeeng
UNEP-GC
UNEP (United Nations Environment Program)
United Nations Environment Program
United Nations. Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme czeeng
United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council
United Nations Environmental Programme
United Nations. Environnement programme
United Nations. Programa para el Medio Ambiente
United Nations Programa para o Meio Ambiente
United Nations Programma po Okružajuščej Srede
United Nations Programme pour l'Environnement
United Nations Umweltprogramm
United Nations Umweltprogramm Verwaltungsrat
United Nations Umweltschutz-Programm
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Life counts : cataloguing life on earthPollution prevention and abatement handbook, 1998 toward cleaner productionGlobal environment outlookGlobal resources and international conflict : environmental factors in strategic policy and actionGreenhouse earthPrinciples for evaluating health risks to reproduction associated with exposure to chemicalsEnvironmental impacts of macroeconomic and sectoral policies
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