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Five years ago, gender mainstreaming was a relatively new concept in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. Activists, policy makers and legislators who were concerned with securing greater equality between women and men had made many advances in terms of putting women’s rights on the legislative agenda, but integrating a gender perspective into all areas of policy and decision-making was…

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, no environmental issue is of such truly global magnitude as the issue of climate change. The poorer, developing countries are the least equipped to adapt to the potential effects of climate change, although most of them have played an insignificant role in causing it. African countries are amongst the poorest of the developing countries. This book…

The book analyses processes of desertification from a social science perspective, and unravels the policy related to drivers of desertification. Desertification is addressed both as a concept surrounded by a multitude of different discourses and as a tangible unsustainable process that is connected to a complex set of policies and changing land management practices. The focus will be on Southern…

More then 20 years of collaboration between European soil scientists has resulted in the publication by the European Commission of the first ever "Soil Atlas of Europe". Based on soil data and information collected within the European Soil Information System (EUSIS) developed by the Joint Research Centre, the atlas illustrates in 128 pages of maps, tables, figures and graphs, the richness of…

In the context of the ECLAC/GTZ project on indicators of the socioeconomic impact of desertification and land degradation, the authors of this book consider theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of desertification, and analyse their causes and consequences. Specifically, desertification is considered as a factor in the loss of sustainability, efficiency and equity in resource…

This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development—and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs.