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