 | 74% | Desertification
Summary: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Status of Desertification and Implementation of the United Nations Plan of Action to Combat Desertification. Financing Anti-Desertification Programmes: Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification. |
| 71% | Implementation of The Plan of Action to Combat Desertification
Summary: CHAPTER 2. The state of implementation of the Plan of Action and objectives and courses of action to further the struggle against desertification, including an evaluation of the additional resources needed in order to attain the minimum objectives of the struggle against desertification. CHAPTER 3. Ways and means of promoting, in particular in the developing countries, research into and... |
| 71% | Drought and Desertification
Summary: | Search | Navigator | Comment | ERIN home | © ]. International. Papers from UNEP associated with the Convention to Combat Desertification. |
| 70% | /incd/contents.html at www.unep.ch
Summary: Tsohiogyn Adyasuren, Director General Environment Science, Monitoring and International Cooperation Department, Ministry for Nature and Environment, Mongolia The Chinese experience in combating desertification and its impacts. Zhu Zhenda, Institute of Geography, Institute of Mountain Disaster and Environment and Desert Research, China The Benin experience in combating desertification and its... |
| 69% | COLA Report 11
Summary: All integrations were 90 days in length, beginning in early June and continuing through August, coincident with the period of the East Asian summer monsoon. During the past forty years, the observed rainfall has decreased in northern and southern China, but increased in central China, and the Inner Mongolian grassland and northern China have become warmer. |
| 69% | ENB:04:56
Summary: Some announced that they were setting up national action committees to coordinate their efforts with those of non-governmental organizations, local communities, international agencies and donor governments. A number of OECD countries announced aid packages, mostly to be reallocated from existing development funds, and to be used primarily to assist African countries in halting dryland... |
| 69% | ENB:03:06
Summary: Some announced that they were setting up national action committees to coordinate their efforts with those of non-governmental organizations, local communities, international agencies and donor governments. A number of OECD countries announced aid packages, mostly to be reallocated from existing development funds, and to be used primarily to assist African countries in halting dryland... |
| 68% | Land Use -- Land Degradation and Desertification
Summary: carrying capacity or the number of people and animals the land can normally support without being significantly stressed. Landscapes throughout the world undergo transformation processes that include some form of natural degradation, but these processes are usually compensated for and counterbalanced by nature's inherent recovery ability. |
| 68% | United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva
Summary: The Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (CCD) tries to reverse this trend by promoting a fresh approach to managing both dryland ecosystems and development aid flows. Resolutions on interim arrangements and on urgent action for Africa Other Web sites also contain information on desertification |
| 65% | GIS Applications at NGDC using NOAA Data
Summary: Scientists at NOAA have found that one of the simplest methods of modeling deserts can come from the "Normalized Difference Vegetation Index" computed from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA's Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES). GIS, coupled with NOAA satellite imagery, and data from NOAA data centers, may help us to better understand the processes and... |
| 64% | Desert and Desertification Project 1995-1996
Summary: Press here to get this information in Hebrew Announcement of Desert and Desertification Project for 1995-1996 ON-LINE Registration Form for Desert Project Year-long Program - Desert Project Details of Registration from Participants Participants Introduce Themselves Our Negev Desert. Helland's 5th grade Class, Valley View School, Phoenix, AZ Desert Navigator Desert Home Page The En... |
| 64% | About the interim secretariat for the Convention to Combat Desertification
Summary: The interim secretariat for the Convention to Combat Desertification was established by the United Nations General Assembly to assist the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in the negotiation of the Convention and preparing for the first session of the Conference of the Parties. The secretariat can be reached at the following address: Interim secretariat CCD. |
| 63% | ENB:04:11
Summary: INDIA:. |
| 62% | ENB:04:66
Summary: The information-sharing segment provided an opportunity for scientists, technical experts, delegates and NGOs to share relevant experiences and learn more about the scourge of desertification and its global dimensions. Negotiations stalled in Nairobi over the issue of related regional instruments, while still giving priority action to Africa. |
 | 61% | Tiempo index
Summary: Population, environment and development; Climate training programme; Global food production at risk; Desertification Convention agreed; Monitoring the flow of finance. Dealing with desertification; The Flood Action Plan; The Earth Council; Self help in the villages; Managing Asia's wetlands. |
| 61% | A/AC.241/30
Summary: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE FOR THE ELABORATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION IN THOSE COUNTRIES EXPERIENCING SERIOUS DROUGHT AND/OR DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY IN AFRICA. D. International organizations United Nations agencies and other international organizations concerned with combatting desertification uniformly pledged to be full partners in the... |
| 60% | Rates and Processes of Environmental Change
Summary: Rates of change are extremely important both because they are used in the development of scenarios to project changes in environmental conditions (including climate), and because they have an important impact on the choice of policies pursued to prevent, mitigate, or adapt to a particular environmental change. It is hoped that the findings of this project will aid decision makers in the... |
| 60% | International Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought
Summary: OECD ACTIVITIES: The OECD Group will meet at the end of June to prepare its positions for INCD-9. For information, contact Marilyn Yakowitz at OECD, 2 rue Andr Pascal, F-75116, Paris, France. |
| 60% | [desc] Article 1 Use of terms
Summary: [desc] Article 1 Use of terms. Article 1 Use of terms. |
| 60% | Desertification Information Network
Summary: L'objectif de ce projet est d'accrotre l'utilisation de donnes, informations et services relatifs l'observation de la terre parmi les utilisateurs proccups par les problmes de dsertification en Afrique et dans le bassin mditerranen. Le projet pilote donnera l'occasion de tester le concept de service d'information sur Internet dvelopp par le programme du Centre d'Observation de la Terre (CEO)... |
| 59% | ENB:04:01
Summary: A SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION OF THE INC FOR THE ELABORATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION. PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR THE NAIROBI SESSION. |
| 58% | UNDP - United Nations Summits and Conferences
Summary: Habitat II - Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements. This database is maintained by the UNDP Webmaster webmaster@undp. |
| 57% | Environment Bulletin
Summary: Material may not be redistributed, posted to any other location, published or used for broadcast without written authorization from the Panafrican News Agency. AFRICA NEWS Home Page | AFRICA NEWS CENTRAL | The Nando Times. |
| 57% | Land Biosphere Links
Summary: Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (MSFC DAAC). Web Curator: Daniel Ziskin -- ziskin@daac. |
| 56% | A/AC.241/30/Add.1
Summary: In the period 1986-1993, disbursements totalled 200 million US dollars. This CGIAR Centres stand ready to continue to catalyze and participate in these and other initiatives that emerge from the successful negotiation of the Convention. |
| 56% | Dr. Robert C. Balling, Jr. HUB PAGE
Summary: He is currently the director of the Office of Climatology and an associate professor of geography at Arizona State University. Balling has published over 50 papers on various aspects of global warming and the greenhouse effect, along with another 50 papers on other climatological issues. |
| 55% | History of Desertification on the Great Plains: A Holocene History of Eolian Sand Movement
Summary: This project is designed to identify regions that are vulnerable to desertification, and characterize past climates that have affected the stability and distribution of surface soils and sediments in the Great Plains region. Activities include documenting the nature and extent of eolian sediments that make up surface deposits in the region, and to study the climatic history of these deposits. |
| 54% | NSI Home Page
Summary: Management of the Computer Information Centre for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Drought and Desertification. Lance Antrim (lance@nsi. |
| 54% | MEDALUS II
Summary: MEDALUS II is an international research project to investigate the effects of desertification on land use in Mediterranean Europe. MEDALUS II is made up of four separate projects, each specialising in different aspects of Mediterranean desertification. |
| 54% | Environmental Organization WebDirectory - Land Conservation:Deserts and Arid Lands
Summary: University of Arizona - The International Arid Lands Consortium is an independent, nonprofit research organization supporting ecological sustainability in arid and semiarid lands worldwide. University of Arizona - The Arid Lands Newsletter is a semiannual research magazine published both in print and online for an international readership of researchers, land managers, conservationists, and... |
