The UNEP Year Book 2008 (formerly the GEO Year Book) is the fifth annual report on the changing environment produced by the United Nations Environment Programme in collaboration with many world environmental experts. The UNEP Year Book 2008 highlights the increasing complexity and interconnections of climate change, ecosystem integrity, human well-being, and economic development. It examines the emergence and influence of economic mechanisms and market driven approaches for addressing environmental degradation, and it describes recent research findings and policy decisions that affect our awareness of and response to changes in our global climate and environment.

Planet in Peril: An Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment offers a holistic and well-researched analysis of today’s global issues and their impact on human population and the environment.

The fourth report in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides a comprehensive, scientifically credible, policy-relevant and up-to-date assessment of, and outlook for, the state of the global environment. GEO-4 is published 20 years after the landmark World Commission on Sustainable Development report - Our Common Future.

Drawing on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most objective and authoritative inventory of species at risk of extinction, this publication combines awe-inspiring imagery with solid science and factual accounts. The result of a collaboration between industry and science, this dramatic new work conveys to the general public the urgency and scale of the current extinction crisis.It describes the extinction process, its causes, and the measures needed to reverse it in terms accessible to everyone. More than simply raising awareness, this book is a call for action to all sectors of society from industry to governments to educators, to work together to save biological diversity. Conserving this diversity is one of the greatest challenges facing mankind today and we hope this book will help inspire more people to take up that challenge.

One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment provides a comprehensive, visual presentation of scientifically variable information, on changes in the global environment—both the good and the bad—acquired and assessed through state-of-the-art remote sensing technology. NB: OWING TO THE WEIGHT OF THE ATLAS THIS PUBLICATION IS SUBJECT TO A SHIPPING CHARGE OF 15USD (for delivery in Europe) and 20USD (for delivery to the rest of the world).

This second edition, launched in February 2005, is based on the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the IPCC that was published in 2001. The publication of this second edtion was prompted by the popularity of the first edition and the obvious need for providing updated information to our readers. This edition seeks to translate the incredibly complex subject of climate change into material that can be useful to a broad range of readers. Includes CD-ROM

PLA Notes is the world's leading informal journal on participatory approaches and methods, providing a forum for practitioners of participatory methodologies from around the world to share their field experiences, conceptual reflections and methodological innovations.