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Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment (open access)

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

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.
Date: 2008
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa's Great Lakes Region: Current Conditions in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda (open access)

Africa's Great Lakes Region: Current Conditions in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda

Africa's Great Lakes region is slowly becoming more stable after almost a decade of conflicts. The region remains vulnerable, however, since armed rebel groups are active in eastern Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and northern Uganda. This report discusses conflicts in these areas in detail, as well as U.S.-led efforts to reach peaceful resolutions.
Date: October 28, 2003
Creator: Dagne, Theodore S. & Farrell, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, September 2009 (open access)

Our Planet, September 2009

Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to policies meant to reduce the carbon emissions from cars, trucks, and planes by converting fleets to cleaner, renewable fuels, and by moving government subsidies from highway infrastructure to public transportation.
Date: September 2009
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 4, Number 3, 2007 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 4, Number 3, 2007

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to the value of forest ecosystems.
Date: 2007
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda (open access)

Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda

This report discusses current political, social, and economic issues in Uganda. While much of the country has remained stable since the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) took power in 1986, civil war has ravaged northern Uganda for over 20 years.
Date: July 31, 2009
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda (open access)

Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda

This report discusses the current political conditions of Uganda, which have long been ravaged by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an armed rebel group backed by the government of Sudan. In particular, the report focuses on largely unsuccessful Ugandan efforts to resolve the conflict with the LRA, as well as talks with the U.S. under the Bush Administration and the recent suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, in July 2010.
Date: November 20, 2009
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda (open access)

Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda

This report discusses current political, social, and economic issues in Uganda. While much of the country has remained stable since the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) took power in 1986, civil war has ravaged northern Uganda for over 20 years.
Date: May 15, 2009
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women and the Environment (open access)

Women and the Environment

This publication focuses on the gender-related aspects of land, water, and biodiversity conservation and management.
Date: 2004
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library