Global Environment Outlook 3: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781853838453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str.

United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Development Programme; Klaus Topfer

Opis

This text provides a comprehensive and authoritative review and analysis of environmental conditions worldwide. The successor to GEO-2000 (1999) and complementary to it, GEO-3 describes policies and achievements in all areas of environmental concern since 1972. It analyses the drivers of environmental change and uses modelling techniques to project the impacts of different policies between 2002 and 2032. It is a crucial assessment for the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in September 2002 and for environmental policy and research worldwide.;It is clearly organized in accessible, non-technical language and supported by colour graphics and quick highlights. With full bibliography and index it should be useful for researchers, teachers, students and policy-makers in environmental science and policy, geography, politics and international affairs.

Spis treści

Foreword * Preface * The GEO Project * Synthesis * The GEO Regions * Integrating Environment and Development 1972-2002 * State of the Environment and Policy Retrospective 1972-2002 * Human Vulnerability to Environmental Change * Outlook 2002-32 * Options for Action * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Collaborating Centres * Contributors * Index

O autorze

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an international participatory assessment process involving a global network of collaborating centres of scientific excellence, government departments, UN bodies and individual experts.