Towards Sustainable Development Environmental Indicators


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This publication presents leading environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set and thus contributes to measuring environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.







Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2


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Since 1971, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme has embraced a number of principles that link the political, scientific and academic spheres. Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2 is a reminder of the fundamental issues involved in governance. The diversity and multiplicity of stakeholders, and the complexity of the interplay between them, as well as their organization, are decisive factors in the proper management of resources and territories. The book also presents a number of case studies demonstrating that, between the strong development aspirations of their populations, the impact of human activities and the need to conserve their biological heritage, the biosphere reserves of the southern Mediterranean are facing major issues: agricultural pollution, forest fires, water use in a context of climate change, etc.




OECD Environmental Indicators 2001


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Organised by issues such as climate change, air pollution, biodiversity, waste or water resources, this publication includes key environmental indicators endorsed by OECD Environment Ministers and the broader OECD Core Set of environmental indicators. It contributes to measuring environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.




Evolutions of the Complex Relationship Between Education and Territories


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The book weaves the story of the complex links between education and its territories. The aim here is to examine the education couple - understood in the broadest sense: school, college, high school, universities - and territory, according to three main axes: the history and the characterization of the different ties maintained And which the school and its territory always maintain; That of the categorization and characterization of the territories in which the school is situated, of the educational policies - both explicit and grassroots - connected with it and their effects on the school; That of recent pedagogical, didactic and organizational innovations. The book is based on French specialists in territorial education issues.







Vers un développement durable


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La dimension internationale des problèmes environnementaux et l'intérêt des gouvernements pour le développement durable ont conduit ces derniers à identifier et à mesurer les progrès environnementaux ainsi que leurs liens avec la situation et l'évolution économiques. Cette publication présente les principaux indicateurs environnementaux du corps central de l'OCDE et contribue ainsi à l'évaluation des performances environnementales et des progrès vers un développement durable. Structuré par thèmes comme le changement climatique, la pollution de l'air, la biodiversité, et les déchets ou ressources en eau, cet ouvrage apporte des informations indispensables à tous ceux concernés par le développement durable .




Environmental Indicators


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Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments


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This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.




Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces


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Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces contains contributions presented at the 2nd Global Soil Security conference, held 5-6 December 2016 in Paris. These chapters focus on how to achieve soil security. This involves scientific, economic, industrial and political engagement to inform soil-users, policy makers and citizens with the objective of implementing appropriate actions. The contributions to this book address the five dimensions of soil security, namely: capability, condition, capital, connectivity and codification.