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ISBN 10: 9280726919
ISBN 13: 9789280726916
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support the continent's development. It also underscores the concept of sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of the environmental initiatives in supporting them.
Part I: The Human Dimension
Chapter 1: Child diseases and clean water
Part II: Forests and Woodlands
Chapter 2: Wetland economic values in selected African countries
Chapter 3: Constraints to market development
Chapter 4: Impacts of markets on environmental services
Chapter 5: Forests and woodlands overview
Chapter 6: Forest woodlands and vegetation cover
Chapter 7: Making the shea butter trade work for women in Burkina Faso
Chapter 8: Some of the nontimber values of forests and woodlands in Africa
Chapter 9: Poor returns to communities in commercialization of some NTFPs
Chapter 10: Kenya’s Green Belt Movement
Chapter 11: Forest cover as percentage of total land area
Chapter 12: Forest as a percentage of land 1990–2005
Chapter 13: Annual change rate in forests 2000
Chapter 14: Forest cover in Western Africa 1990–2000
Chapter 15: Percentage of forest area
Chapter 16: Trade in forest products
Part III: Atmosphere
Chapter 17: World CO2 emissions per capita
Chapter 18: Per capita carbon dioxide emissions in Northern Africa
Chapter 19: Rainfall trends in Southern Africa 1986–2003
Chapter 20: Linkages and feedback loops among desertification, global climate change, and biodiversity loss
Chapter 21: International law framework for improved institutional linkages
Chapter 22: Ecological debtor and creditor countries 2001
Chapter 23: African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)
Chapter 24: The COMESA countries and the uneven playing field for global trade
Part IV: Land
Chapter 25: Land use issues key to sustainable development
Chapter 26: Land and land-based ecosystems
Chapter 27: Food for thought
Chapter 28: Chad charts a new path in oil revenue management
Chapter 29: HIV/AIDS and agriculture in Africa
Chapter 30: Degraded land
Chapter 31: WSSD decisions on land
Chapter 32: National Action Programmes (NAP)
Chapter 33: Thematic Programme Networks
Chapter 34: Northern Africa countries agricultural area as per cent of land area
Chapter 35: Food security objectives of the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan
Chapter 36: Arable land and permanent pasture
Chapter 37: Pressures on land use in Mauritius
Part V: Freshwater
Chapter 38: The Africa Water Vision for 2025 targets for urgent water needs
Chapter 39: Understanding how a wetland functions
Chapter 40: Short-term action plan (STAP) for Transboundary Water Resources (TWR)
Chapter 41: Water sector capacity-building initiatives
Chapter 42: A chronology of change: natural and anthropogenic factors affecting Lake Chad
Chapter 43: The Inga Hydroelectric Facility
Chapter 44: Lake Victoria Environmental Management Programme
Chapter 45: The Nile Basin Initiative
Chapter 46: Toshka Project increasing habitable land
Chapter 47: Lessons learnt from water sector reforms in Southern Africa
Chapter 48: The Diama Dam
Chapter 49: Reforms in Nigeria’s River Basin Development Authorities in favour of rural communities
Chapter 50: Moving from a vicious to a virtuous cycle: Conakry, Guinea water supply
Chapter 51: Mauritius Strategy: freshwater challenges and actions
Chapter 52: Thematic areas towards achieving the Africa Water Vision for the year 2025
Part VI: Coastal and Marine Environments
Chapter 53: Sub-Regional Overviews
Chapter 54: Reported marine fish catches in Central African countries since 1950
Chapter 55: Reported marine fish catches in Eastern African countries since 1980
Chapter 56: The socioeconomic context of small-scale marine fisheries in Kenya
Chapter 57: Management of the downstream and coastal impacts of damming in the Tana basin, Kenya
Chapter 58: Reported marine fish catches in Northern African countries since 1980
Chapter 59: Environmental degradation of Lake Maryout, Egypt
Chapter 60: Tourism and water resources in Tunisia
Chapter 61: Multiple uses and conflicts on the Moulouya coastal wetland, Morocco
Chapter 62: The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Programme
Chapter 63: Reported marine fish catches in Southern African countries
Chapter 64: Pollution management in South Africa through private-public consensus
Chapter 65: Catchment2Coast Transboundary Ecosystem Programme
Chapter 66: The Cape Verde Islands and the West African Marine Ecoregion
Chapter 67: Diawling National Park, Mauritania: an area of important biodiversity
Chapter 68: Reported marine fish catches in Western African countries since 1980
Chapter 69: Modelling oil spills in Chinguetti field, Mauritania
Chapter 70: Tourism benefits local people and conservation
Chapter 71: Reported marine fish catches in the Western Indian Ocean island countries since 1980
Chapter 72: Ecological restoration of islands in the Seychelles
Part VII: Biodiversity
Chapter 73: The distribution of biodiversity
Chapter 74: Plant Diversity: Kupe-Bakossi
Chapter 75: Global diversity of amphibians
Chapter 76: Plant and vertebrate diversity
Chapter 77: Livestock production, biodiversity and human wellbeing
Chapter 78: Increasing the opportunities associated with nature-based tourism
Chapter 79: The fair and equitable use of genetic resources
Chapter 80: Collaboration and conservation
Chapter 81: The biodiversity features of Central Africa
Chapter 82: Protected areas (IUCN Categories I–VI) Northern Africa
Chapter 83: Protected areas (IUCN Categories I–V) percentage of total area in Northern Africa
Chapter 84: The Diawling National Park (DNP), Mauritania
Chapter 85: Biodiversity in mountain regions
Part VIII: Interlinkages: The Environment and Policy
Chapter 86: Interlinkages defined
Chapter 87: Interlinkages in progress towards eradicating Guineaworm disease
Chapter 88: Ecology and economy dual factors in improving human wellbeing
Chapter 89: Interlinkages for health-related MDGs
Chapter 90: Environmental change impacts lake population in Ethiopian Highlands
Chapter 91: Environmental and social impacts of urban agriculture
Chapter 92: Climate change-related interlinkages in the Sahel
Chapter 93: Global-national economic linkages
Chapter 94: The significance of trade in primary commodities
Chapter 95: Financial flows to developing countries 1980–2002
Chapter 96: Process of preparing environmental sections of a PRSP
Chapter 97: Incorporation of environment in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
Chapter 98: Focus on Millennium Development Goals in the PRSPs
Chapter 99: Flaring: lost opportunities and environmental costs
Chapter 100: Building partnerships for Environmental Impact Assessments, Eastern Africa
Chapter 101: Progress towards MDGs in the Western Indian Ocean islands subregion
Part IX: Genetically Modified Crops & Organisms
Chapter 102: Bt cotton in South Africa
Chapter 103: GM crop research in Africa
Chapter 104: Distribution of cassava mosaic virus
Chapter 105: Some approaches to GMO foods and food aid in Africa
Chapter 106: GM status in Africa
Chapter 107: Intellectual Property Rights: potential conflicts and opportunities for resolution
Chapter 108: Will the use of Bt cotton result in less pest threats and pesticide use?
Chapter 109: The African Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum
Chapter 110: Precaution
Chapter 111: African countries’ status on Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Chapter 112: SADC recommendations on genetically modified organisms
Chapter 113: Developing sustainable agricultural production systems
Chapter 114: Biotechnology for smallholder farmers
Part X: Invasive Alien Species
Chapter 115: Invasive alien species
Chapter 116: The incidence of IAS in Africa
Chapter 117: IAS, the biotic integrity of communities and the functioning of ecosystems
Chapter 118: Invasive bird species
Chapter 119: Effects of some characteristic aquaculture-related introductions in Africa
Chapter 120: Water hyacinth wreaks havoc
Chapter 121: Black wattle: weighing the costs and benefits
Chapter 122: Estimated percentage invasion per tertiary catchment
Chapter 123: Key facts
Chapter 124: NEPAD makes IAS a priority
Chapter 125: Convention on Biological Diversity
Chapter 126: The need for vigilant phytosanitary measures
Chapter 127: The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures 1995
Part XI: Chemicals
Chapter 128: The general structure of the chemical industry
Chapter 129: World chemicals production 2004
Chapter 130: Growth in trade in chemicals between 1979–96, real terms (%/year)
Chapter 131: Import and export of pesticides
Chapter 132: Global fertilizer consumption 2001
Chapter 133: What are POPs and PCBs?
Chapter 134: Major crops attacked by termites
Chapter 135: Population at risk from malaria
Chapter 136: Lead poisoning and the tragedy of a mining boom
Chapter 137: Health and environmental effects of DDT on health and environment
Chapter 138: Impacts of chemicals on fish catch and wetlands in Senegal
Chapter 139: The challenge of obsolete pesticides in Tanzania
Chapter 140: Global support to reduce Africa’s chemical stockpiles
Chapter 141: Agenda 21 Chapter 19: Priority programme areas for managing toxic chemicals
Chapter 142: Parties to the Stockholm Convention
Chapter 143: Priority areas for promoting best practice in chemicals management and usage
Chapter 144: Systematic chemical assessments
Part XII: Environment for Peace and Regional Cooperation
Chapter 145: Provisions of the Constitutive Act of the African Union
Chapter 146: African Renaissance to promote regional cooperation
Chapter 147: African economic regions fostering cooperation
Chapter 148: Main organs of the East African Community
Chapter 149: Access to land and violent conflict in Africa
Chapter 150: Darfur: a region in crisis
Chapter 151: Land, water, and conflict in the Senegal River basin
Chapter 152: Refugee influx adjacent to national parks
Chapter 153: Conflict contributes to rapid urban growth in Luanda, Angola
Chapter 154: Impacts of war and peace
Chapter 155: Affected populations in the Great Lakes Region
Chapter 156: Protected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and major political-military divisions 2001
Chapter 157: Democratic Republic of the Congo national parks overexploited
Part XIII: The Future Today
Chapter 158: PoleStar and T21
Chapter 159: Population trends in the various subregions
Chapter 160: GDP growth by ECA subregion
Chapter 161: Gross Domestic Product by subregion
Chapter 162: Regional Scenario Narratives
Chapter 163: Factors influencing land-use change in Africa used in the scenario analysis
Chapter 164: Imagine extreme land degradation in Western and Central Africa
Chapter 165: Regional projections of land under irrigation in the four scenarios
Chapter 166: Changes in total irrigated land area
Chapter 167: Subregional picture of degraded cropland by 2025 under the various scenarios
Chapter 168: Population experiencing inadequate access to water in the different scenarios
Chapter 169: Opportunities offered by planting woodlots on marginal land
Chapter 170: Sub-Regional Scenarios
Chapter 171: Imagine an increase in temperature in the subregion
Chapter 172: Possible policy messages
Chapter 173: Priority areas for conservation
Chapter 174: Fragmentation of forests by infrastructure such as roads
Chapter 175: Per capita renewable water resources in Northern Africa
Chapter 176: Impact on selected water indicators in Africa as per AEO1 scenario model
Chapter 177: Facing the challenge of limited groundwater resources
Chapter 178: Harnessing the opportunities of participatory management
Chapter 179: Average cumulative rainfall (mm) in Western Africa 1968–1998
Chapter 180: Conclusion
Part XIV: Back to Our Common Future: A Renaissance for the Environment
Chapter 181: Annual costs of environmental degradation in Egypt
Chapter 182: Countries affected by food insecurity due to natural hazards during the 2005–06 cropping seasons
Chapter 183: Water withdrawals by country
Chapter 184: Biodiversity hotspots
Chapter 185: Impact of mining on the environment and human health (Box 1)
Chapter 186: Millennium Development Goals
Chapter 187: Genetically Modified Organisms
Chapter 188: Contributors
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