The effect of tourism activity in developing countries has been a hotly debated topic for a number of decades. Opinions have fluctuated between the extremes of tourism as the catalyst for socio-economic development and tourism as the basis for neo-colonial exploitation and environmental and cultural decline.

The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development.

The challenge today, says the report, is to speed up progress in moving towards the life cycle economy, doing accountable reporting against corporate responsibility commitments and strengthening engagement of business and industry from rapidly industrialising developing countries.

This report provides Liberia-specific information on the environmental considerations of displacement. It points the relevant Liberian humanitarian or environmental practitioner to the relevant source material for detailed guidance on camp site selection, management, and decommissioning as well as providing an overview of the key environmental points relating to the return and resettlement process.

This workbook was prepared as a start up resource for educators working on environment and sustainablility questions in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The workbook explores creative ways of working with ethics education. Also available in French, Spanish & Italian

This workbook was prepared as a start up resource for educators working on environment and sustainablility questions in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The workbook explores creative ways of working with ethics education.

This review documents how community conservation can contribute to human well-being and the preservation of natural resources in southern Africa. Additional examples and experience are drawn from India, South East Asia and Central America. The report provides eight recommendations to further advance community conservation processes

The GEO Yearbook 2006 is the third annual survey of the changing global environment produced by UNEP, in collaboration with many world experts in environment research and action. The Yearbook includes global and regional overviews.

What is the moral value of the environment? What in nature is worth protecting, preserving or respecting? What do we mean by global sustainability? How much should we care for the interests of future generations? What are the implications of the principle of justice for policy decisions related to environmental issues? In this volume, eight experts in environmental ethics from around the world, advising the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, come together to address these questions.

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).