Assessment of Socio-Economic and Climate Change Effects on Water Resources and Agriculture in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries. MEDPRO Technical Paper No. 28/March 2013

This study aims at assessing the socio-economic and environmental effects of different societal and human development scenarios and climate change in the water-scarce southern and eastern Mediterranean. The study develops a two-stage modelling methodology that includes an econometric analysis for the southern and eastern Mediterranean region as a whole and a detailed, integrated socioecological assessment focusing on Jordan, Syria and Morocco. The results show that water resources will be under increasing stress in future years. In spite of country differences, a future path of sustainable development is possible in the region. Water withdrawals could decrease, preserving renewable water resources and reversing the negative effects on agricultural production and rural society. This, however, requires a combination across the region of technical, managerial, economic, social and institutional changes that together foster a substantive structural change. A balanced implementation of water supply-enhancing and demand-management measures along with improved governance are key to attaining a cost-effective sustainable future in which economic growth, a population increase and trade expansion are compatible with the conservation of water resources.

Economic and climate change pressures on biodiversity in southern Mediterranean coastal areas. MEDPRO Technical Report No. 24/February 2013

This paper establishes and measures key biodiversity and ecosystem health indicators and the number of world heritage sites in coastal areas at global level. It then estimates – econometrically – the indicators’ influence on the provision of tourism values through the marine ecosystem function as a harbour of biodiversity, and as a provider of amenity values and marine cultural identity. The report then focuses on the MEDPRO region, providing some estimates of the potential impact of climate change on these services for a given temperature increase scenario. Finally, the effect on ecosystemrelated tourism is computed for the four MEDPRO social economic scenarios. The analysis is enriched by some quantification of the potential costs of adaptation.

Law of the sea : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, on achievements of the Geneva session of the third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference, May 22, 1975.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of an exploratory mission of the United Nations on the economic and social development of the Department of Cuzco, Peru.

Mode of access: Internet.

Latin America timber trends and prospects [by] Economic Commission for Latin America [and] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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The United Nations Decade for Women, 1976-1985 : employment in the United States : report for the World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women 1976-1985.

"July 1985."

The united nations of the world : a treatise on how to win the peace /

"First edition, August, 1942".

United Nations peacekeeping efforts : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, June 9, 1992.

Shipping list no.: 93-0235-P.

Information on the operations and financing of the United Nations.

Accompanied by: Supplement to Joint Committee print of February 6, 1962.

Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton : United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China.

Shipping list no.: 96-0029-P.