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  • The Water Challenge

    en Global Archived web content Global Water Partnership 2017 Water policy and administration
    This is an archived webpage describing some of the complications around water management.

  • What is water security? Infographic

    en Global Archived web content UN-WATER 2013 Water resources
    This is an archived webpage showing an infographic on what water security is.

  • Water and Gender

    en Global Archived web content UN-WATER Gender, Water policy and administration
    This is an archived webpage on the connection between gender and water.

  • Assessing the global distribution of river fisheries harvest: a systematic map protocol

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Chelsie L. Romulo, Zeenatul Basher, Abigail J. Lynch, Yu-Chun Kao... 2017
    Although surface freshwater comprises < 0.01% of the total water volume of earth, freshwater inland capture fisheries and aquaculture represent 40% of the global reported finfis...

  • A Victory for Indigenous People The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    en Asia, Global Advocacy and promotional materials De Chavez, Raymond , Tebtebba 2007 Ethnic minorities and indigenous people, Human rights

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  • A Pan African Indigenous People's Conference on Adaptation & Mitigation

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) Adaptation, Climate change, Ethnic minorities and indigenous people, Human rights, Mitigation

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  • The EU Timber Regulation and VPAs

    en Global Archived web content EU FLEGT Forest policy and administration, Forest protection
    This website describes the EU Timber Regulation and VPAs.

  • Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) World Bank Group 2019 Economic policy and administration
    Doing Business 2019 is the 16th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents q...

  • The global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources

    en Global Advocacy and promotional materials EITI 2019 Extractive industries
    Based on the principle that a country’s natural resources belong to its citizens, the EITI Standard promotes the open and accountable management of oil, gas and mineral resources.

  • Extreme weather events in developing countries and related injuries and mental health disorders - a systematic review

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Elisabeth Rataj, Katharina Kunzweiler and Susan Garthus-Niegel 2016 Climate change, Environment and natural resources, Mental health and social services
    Due to climate change, extreme weather events have an incremental impact on human health. Injuries and mental health disorders are a particular burden of disease, which is broad...

  • Climate change knowledge portal

    en Asia, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Global, South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Western Asia Archived web content World Bank Group Climate change, Environmental impact assessments, Public health
    In an effort to serve as the hub for climate-related information, data, and tools, the World Bank (WB) created the Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP). The Portal provides an...

  • Global health observatory data repository. Basic and safely managed drinking water services

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Dataset accessed through...
    A dataset on Basic and safely managed drinking water services. Data is sorted by country and covers time period from 2000-2017.

  • Climate and health country profiles 2015: a global overview

    en Asia, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Global, South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Western Asia Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) World Health Organization 2015 Climate change, Public health
    To protect health from risks derived from climate change, decision-makers (going from national leaders to individual citizens) need access to the best information possible on th...

  • Joint effects of air pollution: Ambient and household air pollution attributable death rate (per 100,000 population; age-standardized) (2016)

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through... Environment and natural resources, Public health
    As part of a broader project to assess major risk factors to health, the mortality resulting from exposure to ambient (outdoor) air pollution and household (indoor) air pollutio...

  • Burden of disease from inadequate water in low- and middle-income countries 2016

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through... Public health, Water and sanitation
    As part of a broader project to assess major risk factors to health, the burden of disease resulting from exposure to water, sanitation and hygiene was assessed. Access to impro...

  • Deaths attributable to the environment

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through...
    The percentage of total deaths that are attributable to the environment. It represents burden of disease that could be avoided by modifying the environment. Modifiable environme...

  • Gender, Climate Change and Health

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) World Health Organization 2014 Climate change, Gender, Public health
    There is now strong evidence that the earth’s climate is changing rapidly, mainly due to human activities. Increasing temperatures, sea-level rises, changing patterns of precipi...

  • Household Air pollution attributable deaths

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through...
    Number of deaths attributable to household air pollution resulting from solid fuels for cooking. Evidence from epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to smoke from inc...

  • Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population)

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Bank Group. Dataset accessed through...
    Data for access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking. Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking is the proportion of total population primarily using clean cooki...

  • Data and tools to integrate climate and environmental information into public health

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Pietro Ceccato, Bernadette Ramirez, Tawanda Manyangadze, Paul... 2018 Climate change, Environment and natural resources, Public health
    During the last 30 years, the development of geographical information systems and satellites for Earth observation has made important progress in the monitoring of the weather, ...