Global Environment Outlook 2000

Front Cover
Earthscan, 1999 - 398 pages
Global Environment Outlook 2000, or GEO-2000, is a comprehensive and authoritative review and analysis of environmental conditions around the world. It is the flagship publication of the world's leading environmental organization, UNEP, and is based on information provided by more than 30 regional and international collaborating centres.
A region-by-region analysis is given of the state of the world's environment - highlighting key global concerns and making recommendations for policy action - in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, West Asia and the Polar Areas.
Written in clear, non-technical language and supported throughout by informative colour graphics and tables, GEO-2000 will be the benchmark reference and guide to the state of the global environment. It is essential reading for all those involved in environmental policy making, implementation and assessment, and for researchers and students of regional and global environmental issues.Published in association with the United Nations Environment Program.
 

Contents

CHAPTER
3
Military expenditures
8
Growth of urban populations
10
The economics of cleaner production
17
The State of the Environment
23
Global and regional synthesis
24
CHAPTER 1
39
Mercury concentrations in beluga whales 199394
94
Asia and the Pacific
236
Regional MEAs on transboundary pollution
239
Environmental factors affecting health
243
The Japan Fund for Global Environment
247
Europe and Central Asia
256
Emissions of sulphur dioxide from Europe west of Urals
262
Known and estimated total numbers of species
269
Latin America
270

Annual average growth of per capita GDP 197595
95
CHAPTER 2
106
Population with and without sanitation
115
Change in forest extent 199095
121
Africa
129
Marine fish catch
141
Traditional and commercial energy
146
Africa
148
Calorie intake per capita
155
Fertilizer
161
CHAPTER 2
179
Watersheds of Arctic rivers
185
Winter and summer sea
191
Policy Responses
197
Global and regional synthesis
198
Overall strategy for cleaner production development
209
Policy challenges for Southern Africa
220
Parties to major environment conventions
221
Implementation and compliance in selected regional MEAs
226
The future seen from 1983
233
SO₂ emissions from fossil fuel burning
275
Parties to major environment conventions
281
Asia and the Pacific
282
North America
294
Emission reductions through ARET
302
Solid waste production wastewater treated
309
West Asia
312
North America
315
Future Perspectives
333
Major emerging issues identified in the SCOPE survey
339
Use of unconventional water resources
343
and garbage collection
349
Sulphur and nitrogen dioxide emissions continental Asia
350
water balance under three scenarios
357
Tourism in the Arctic early 1990s
358
Outlook and Recommendations
361
Acronyms and Abbreviations
375
Index
387
Protected areas 1997
393
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