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Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report, from the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) was published in 1987. Its targets were multilateralism and interdependence of nations in the search for a sustainable development path. The report sought to recapture the spirit of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the…

The present report was prepared in response to resolution 40/198 and is based on a study prepared by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In the preparation of the study, the Executive Director had the benefit of consultations with high-level officials and experts. The Plan of Action to Combat Desertification was adopted in 1977, upon the…

Desertification control bulletin is an international bulletin published in six monthly intervals by UNEP to disseminate information and knowledge on desertification problems and to present news on the programmes, activities and achievements in the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification around the world. ( The bulletin is ceased in 2000. UNCCD library collection has most of…

The publication groups together the results of investigations of the process of desertification by twenty international specialists. It represents a thorough report on the status of our knowledge of the cause and effects of degaradation of arid lands worldwide. An understanding of the physical layout of arid lands and the nature of processes that initiate changes therein is also fundamental to…

Desertification is a particularly devastating form of environmental deterioration afflicting arid and semi-arid areas. Its causes have been analysed and various solutions have been advanced. This Report establishes that the struggle against desertification has failed to produce satisfactory results and attempts to identify the causes of this failure at both the national and international levels. …

Desertification has been clearly labelled as a global environmental issue.The interest in and the convening of the United Nations Conference on Desertification in Nairobi, Kenya in 1977 confirms the global interest in this form of environmental degradation centered in and around arid and semiarid areas of the world. The book is divided into four parts: natural and socio-economic aspects of…