This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.

Population growth, urbanisation and economic growth in general, all exert pressure on water resources through increased demand and pollution. This 57 page summary with CD-ROM provides the status of water resources across the continents of Africa and Asia for major rivers, lakes and groundwater basins. The joint Africa-Asia study is intended for managers, planners and other key decision-makers in water resources management and governments.

This publication is a completion report for “UNEP Support for Environmental Management of the
Iraqi Marshlands” project, which was one of the largest environmental projects conducted within
the framework of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) Iraq Trust Fund. The Publication presents the background of the project, project activities, and major outputs and results. It also makes recommendations on additional initiatives to improve the environmental conditions for the Marshlands area as well as for the country.

Through the use of satellite data, photographs, graphics and site-specific case
studies, this 160-page atlas highlights environmental change in Kenya. It looks at the country's mountains, forests, water bodies and national parks, chronicling the evolution of the country's environment over the last few decades and the ecological challenges and opportunities facing the country.

The UNEP Year Book 2009 presents work in progress on scientific understanding of global environmental change, as well as foresight
about possible issues on the horizon. The aim is to raise awareness of the interlinkages among environmental issues that can accelerate the rates
of change and threaten human wellbeing.

This new report by UNEP looks at the links between environment, conflict and peace building.

Save US$20.00 by purchasing these latest UNEP titles as a set: The Environmental Food Crisis, The Natural Fix? and Climate in Peril

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.

Despite the central role oceans play in the economic, environmental and social affairs of the planet's 6.7 billion inhabitants, significant gaps exist in our understanding and management of the complex processes at work from the global climate system, to the water cycle and circulation of nutrients, to changes affecting marine habitats. In addition, the vastness of the world's oceans
have for far too long been perceived as impervious and indestructible to human impact.