Global Environmental Outlook GEO-4
Environment for Development
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Contents
Foreword xvi
Preface xviii
Reader’s Guide
xx
Section A
Overview
Chapter 1 Environment for Development 3
Section B
State-and-Trends of the Environment: 1987–2007
Chapter 2 Atmosphere 39
Chapter 3 Land 81
Chapter 4 Water 115
Chapter 5 Biodiversity 157
Section C
Regional Perspectives: 1987–2007
Chapter 6 Sustaining a Common Future 195
Section D Human
Dimensions of Environmental Change
Chapter 7 Vulnerability of People and
the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities 301
Chapter 8 Interlinkages: Governance for Sustainability 361
Section E The
Outlook – Towards 2015 and Beyond
Chapter 9 The Future Today 397
Section F Sustaining Our Common
Future
Chapter 10 From the Periphery to the
Core of Decision Making – Options for Action 457
The GEO-4
Process 498
Acronyms and Abbreviations 502
Contributors 506
Glossary 515
Index 526