The Global Deserts Outlook is the first thematic assessment report in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A UNEP contribution to the International Year of Deserts and Desertification in 2006, the report aims to help raise global public awareness of the state of the world's deserts.

Industries extractives dans les zones arides et semi-arides : planification et gestion de l'environnement;Industrias extractivas en zonas áridas y semiáridas : planificación y gestión ambientales

Industries extractives dans les zones arides et semi-arides : planification et gestion de l'environnement;Industrias extractivas en zonas áridas y semiáridas : planificación y gestión ambientales

Enhancing social sustainability in activities to combat desertification : a manual for reflection

The World Atlas of Desertification summarises the state of scientific knowledge on the drylands of the globe. Representing in graphic form the current state of our understanding of desertification, as well as its extent and possible solutions, it contains an extraordinary amount of information of value to students and experts alike. It clearly shows that desertiflcation is one of the world's most pressing environmental problems, and that it is a truly global issue.

This study is the product of a co-operative venture between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the international Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). UNRISD was requested by UNEP to prepare an annotated bibliography and a literature review of the principal issues concerning the social dimensions of desertification, as a contribution to the international workshop, "Listening to the People", organized by UNEP, in December 1993. At UNEP, work on the social dimensions of desertification falls under the newly-created Social Dimensions and Sustainable Practices sub-programme in the Dryland Ecosystems and Desertification Control Programme Activity Centre (DEDC/PAC). In recent years UNRISD has done extensive work in this area under the programme on Environment, Sustainable Development and Social Change. Likewise, IIED has developed considerable expertise on the social dimensions of desertification.