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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…

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 book addresses the world problem of desertification. It presents the likely means for raising additional resources needed to implement worldwide programme to combat the problem.The United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD,1977) showed that desertification was one of the major environmental problems of the world. Its cost in human, social and economic terms is extremely high.

The data collected for this publication has been supplied from more than 450 institutions in response to 850 questionnaires sent. Desertification is a serious threat to the future of mankind, a problem which needs to be addressed urgently. The library has a hard copy.

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…