| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Environment - Policy and management |
| Sustainable Development - General |
| Challenges and opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development |
| "Challenges and opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development: FAO's perspective" was prepared
as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, Johannesburg, 26 August-4 September 2002. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/wssd/docs/ChallengesandOpportunityfinal.doc |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| The ICAMS Initiative: Development and implementation of an integrated coastal analysis and monitoring system |
| The objective of ICAMS is to develop, demonstrate and evaluate an operational system to monitor temperature, sediment, and chlorophyll concentration from multiple EO data sources and coincident standard surface measurements.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0066.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Regional Workshop for Decision-makers on Remote Sensing/GIS Applications in Agricultural and Environmental Management |
| Summary report of the Regional Workshop for Decision-makers on Remote Sensing/GIS Applications in Agricultural and Environmental Management held in Santiago, Chile (7-11 December 1998). Workshop topics included remote sensing and GIS and their applications in forestry, water resources, agriculture and environment. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0067.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Status of environment and natural resources in Small Island Developing States |
| This article reviews the status of the environment and natural resources in small island developing states. The information has been extracted from "Environment and Natural Resources in Small Island Developing States", prepared for the Special Ministerial Conference On Agriculture In Small Island Developing States (Rome, 12 March 1999). |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0015.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environmental Monitoring in China's Hubei Province |
| This article reports on FAO assistance to Hubei Province in Central China to enhance its environmental data acquisition and management capacity by strengthening the Hubei Agro-Environmental Protection Station, in order to identify, analyze, monitor and report on the levels of pollutants in water, soil and crops in the province. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0011.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Agricultural sustainability in rapidly industrializing Asian economies |
| Extracted from "Integration of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Agricultural Policy" (FAO/Winrock International, 1996), this article looks at both the technology and the market aspects of the marginalization of agriculture in East Asian countries. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0007.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Water resources issues in the Arabic States Region |
| This article has been extracted from "Population Change-Natural Resources-Environment Linkages in the Arab States Region" (FAO, April 1996). A short country profile on Egypt illustrates many of the population-environment problems of the region, especially those arising from population pressure on natural resources. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0006.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Use of indicators in sustainable agriculture and rural development |
| Sustainability indicators look at economic, social and environmental information in an integrated manner. Used effectively, they reveal conditions and trends that help in development planning and decision-making. This article suggests that the development of sustainability indicators must be closely tied to the development of national and subnational information systems for agricultural planning a... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0001.htm |
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