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  1. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2011
    Australia, Bhután, China, India, Kazajstán, Kiribati, República de Corea, Kuwait, Mongolia, Pakistán, Filipinas, Tailandia, Uzbekistán

    Asia and the Pacific, for the purposes of this book, encompasses a vast territory extending from Mongolia in the north to New Zealand in the south; from the Cook Islands in the east to Kuwait in the west (Map 1). The environmental diversity of Asia and the Pacific is therefore vast, and is contrasted by the region’s coldest and hottest deserts, verdant tropical rainforests, extensive steppe, desert steppe, grassland and rangelands, mountains and plains.

  2. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2011
    Sudáfrica, África austral, América Septentrional, Asia central, Asia occidental

    Dryland mountains are among the least-known environments in the world, and certainly one of the most overlooked by decision- and policy-makers. Dryland mountains have an outstanding strategic value. They act as water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, as shown by the examples of the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Central Andes, the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin, the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia

  3. Library Resource
    Country Profiles on the Housing Sector - Tajikistan
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Diciembre, 2011
    Tayikistán

    The country profiles on the housing sector are intended to assist Governments of countries with economies in transition to improve the performance of their housing sector and, at the same time, to promote sustainable development. The reviews analyse trends and policy developments and make an overall assessment of the political, economic and social framework of the housing sector. This work was initiated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Housing and Land Management in the early 1990s in response to requests from UNECE member States.

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    Materiales institucionales y promocionales
    Diciembre, 2011
    Chile, Colombia, Japón, República de Corea, Sri Lanka, Filipinas, Singapur, Tayikistán

    This guideline jointly published by The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), in partnership with the Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, provides practical tools for city planners and decision makers to reform urban planning and infrastructure design according to the principles of eco-efficiency and social inclusiveness.

  5. Library Resource
    Enero, 2011
    Ucrania, Kirguistán, Rusia, Moldavia, Belarús, Tayikistán, Turkmenistán, Uzbekistán, Kazajstán, Armenia, Europa oriental, Europa, África subsahariana, Asia occidental, América Septentrional, África septentrional, Asia oriental, Oceanía, Asia meridional, América Latina y el Caribe

    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.This final report of the Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures Project argues that decisive action needs to take place now. The report identifies five considerable challenges ahead:

  6. Library Resource
    Enero, 2011
    Qatar, Egipto, Nigeria, Estados Unidos de América, Ucrania, Kirguistán, Indonesia, Brasil, Reino Unido, Ghana, Rusia, Moldavia, Etiopía, Belarús, Mozambique, Laos, Turkmenistán, Filipinas, Libia, Tayikistán, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Uzbekistán, Kuwait, Argentina, Kazajstán, Sudán, Bahrein, Armenia, Arabia Saudita, Camboya, Oceanía, Asia occidental, Europa, Asia oriental, Asia meridional, América Latina y el Caribe, América Septentrional, África septentrional

    Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.

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    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Enero, 2012
    Kirguistán

    The Kyrgyz Republic represents land governance issues arising in a posttransition economy; in fact, it was one of the first countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States to introduce private land ownership when it became independent in 1991.

  8. Library Resource
    Publicación revisada por pares
    Diciembre, 2011
    Kazajstán

    Kazakhstan land is rich with position of biological, climatic, cultural and natural variety, which promotes the tempestuous development of the tourist business. As it is well known, tourist business is a highly profitable branch to economic activity. Exactly so one of the priority direction of the economy in Kazakhstan is determined "tourist cluster". Its shaping means the development to tourist industry, making the tourist products and rendering the tourist services, which can compete on the world market.

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    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2011
    Afganistán, Asia central

    The aim of the research project is to lift Afghanistan out of the identified knowledge gap on its water resources and therefore enable Afghanistan to remove her barrier to sustainable water resource development and management in the Amu Darya basin. At the same time it is anticipated to provide transparency of the potential impact of water resource development plans as well as of on-going projects to downstream riparian states as well as the donor community - which so far seems to take an administrative rather than a resource boundary approach.

  10. Library Resource
    Documentos de conferencias e informes
    Diciembre, 2011
    Uzbekistán, Turkmenistán, Asia central

    Land degradation of agricultural areas in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, specifically due to soil salinization, has resulted in significant declines in agricultural productivity. This study builds upon previous limited work on 'Bright Spots' by focusing on specific farming enterprises in the two target countries.

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