Making Progress on Environmental Sustainability: Lessons and recommendations from a review of over 150 MDG country experiences.
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| The UNDP report, launched in partnership with UNEP, charts the progress of developing countries' efforts to make the environment a priority in their national plans to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). |
| Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Conducting and Using Integrated Assessments. A Training Manual.
English, Français, Português
This training module is an introduction to the basic concepts and approaches of integrated ecosystem assessments. Integrated ecosystem assessments focus on ecosystem services (the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, like food, water, and climate regulation), how changes in these services have affected human well-being and how such changes may affect people in the future. They also focus on the responses that might be adopted to improve ecosystem management and contribute to human well-being and alleviate poverty.
The module is based on the conceptual framework of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and draws extensively on the experiences of the Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA), one of the key sub-global assessments of the MA process.
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Exploring the Links:
Human Well-Being,
Poverty and Ecosystem Services
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Exploring the Links is a conceptual framework developed in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development as a contribution to understanding about the linkages between poverty and the environment. Exploring the Links outlines UNEP's approach to the poverty-environment nexus and offers new insight into the complex relationship between poverty and the environment. It does so by drawing upon the capabilities approach and the ecosystems approach and emphasizes empowerment of poor people.
To obtain a hard copy of this publication, please contact: Anne Mburu, Tel: 254 20 62 3372, Email Anne Mburu.
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Poverty and Environment Reports and Publications from the countries
Tanzania
- Mali
- Kenya
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Rwanda
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| Background Documents |
| Governing Council Decisions relevant to Poverty and the Environment |
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