Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy Collectionhttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/ESDC/browse/?fq=untl_institution:UNT&fq=str_location_country:Cameroon&fq=untl_decade:2000-2009&sort=added_d2010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy CollectionAfrica: Atlas of Our Changing Environment2010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28500/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28500/"><img alt="Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment" title="Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28500/small/"/></a></p><p>This comprehensive atlas provides data, satellite imagery, and analysis of the environmental conditions and issues relevant to each African country, and several surrounding island nations. The atlas also covers trans-border international issues in Africa.</p>Our Planet, Special Edition, 20072010-09-11T23:15:36-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28525/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28525/"><img alt="Our Planet, Special Edition, 2007" title="Our Planet, Special Edition, 2007" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28525/small/"/></a></p><p>Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to agriculture, particularly in developing countries. Traditional methods of agricultural intensification can degrade sanitation and public health, while increasing carbon emissions.</p>The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change2010-05-28T13:18:34-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13712/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13712/"><img alt="The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change" title="The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13712/small/"/></a></p><p>According to the introduction, this report provides a global estimate of the cost of reducing the rate of deforestation.</p>Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon2010-05-28T13:18:34-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13715/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13715/"><img alt="Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon" title="Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13715/small/"/></a></p><p>According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).</p>