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Environmental degradation and the depletion of resources threaten Africa's biological systems as well as human health and the quality of human life. Unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, particularly in the industrialized countries which do not reflect adequate concern for environmental conservation and rehabilitation are also at the root of the numerous environmental problems,…

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 Parties to this Convention, Affirming that human beings in affected or threatened areas are at the centre of concerns to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought, Reflecting the urgent concern of the international community, including States and international organizations, about the adverse impacts of desertification and drought, Aware that arid,…

The UNDP-UNEP joint venture, the UN Sudan-Sahelian Office (UNSO), assisted 22 developing countries in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Africa with their national programmes to combat desertification. These countries, many of them the least developed, are most seriously affected by desertification. Such activities included: coordination of anti-desertification programmes within the region, promotion…

This book addresses the question: "If the development of the quarter of the world's people who are now rich has brought us all so close to the limits of sustainable living on Earth, how is the development of the three-quarters who are poor to be accommodated?" For Ramphal, president of the World Conservation Union and a native of Guyana, that challenge is more than academic - it is…

For concerned scientists frustrated by more than a decade of “business as usual” national economic and energy policy in the face of growing environmental consequences, Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, can be viewed as a source for optimism. Twenty‐five years of world travel and studies of the Earth's ecological problems led Gore to publish his…