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Land Degradation
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Forests,
Grasslands and Drylands
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Includes statistics on forest area and change over
the past decade (Rate of Deforestation), ecosystems
areas by type (% Forest Cover ), forest protection
(Protected area as % of all land area), and
wood production and trade.
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FAO-Forest
Resource Assessment 2000
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FRA 2000 was the first assessment to use a homogeneous
set of definitions globally and it is to date the most
comprehensive assessment of the global forest resources
(incl. Rate of Deforestation). FRA 2000 was based
on information provided and validated by the countries,
supplemented by state of the art technology to verify
and analyse the information
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IRRI
World Rice Statistics
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World rice statistics (WRS), which is published periodically
by IRRI, presents comprehensive time series information
related to rice. Data on rice production (Average
Rice Yield), trade, consumption, inputs, prices,
and other related information are compiled from international
and national statistical sources, personal communications,
and from responses to questionnaires sent by IRRI's
Social Sciences Division.
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Threats to Biodiversity
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Biodiversity
and Protected Areas
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Includes statistics on protected areas by IUCN category
( % Protected areas), number and status of species
(Threatened Species) and legal trade in selected
wildlife and CITES status.
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IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic,
conservation status and distribution information on
taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List
Categories and Criteria (Threatened Species)
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UNEP
WCMC Species Database
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The UNEP-WCMC Species Database includes data on 70710
animals and 88783 plants of conservation interest as
well as 86384 sub-species, stocks or synonyms. Sub-sets
of data from the Species Database have been tailored
to different user needs and can be interrogated on the
web, providing differing views of the central database.
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WCPA World
Database on Protected Areas
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The World Database on Protected Areas is
the result of a collaboration between UNEP-WCMC and
the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).
It is compiled and managed with the support of a wide
range of national and international organizations, including
protected area agencies in most countries.
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Inland Water Pollution
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Population,
Health and Human Well-Being
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Includes demographic and health indicators, statistics
on safe water and sanitation (Access to safe drinking
water) and statistics on school enrollment and
literacy.
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Mobile Source Pollution
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Energy
and Resources
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Includes statistics on energy production and consumption,
energy consumption by source, energy consumption by
sector and resource consumption (Passenger cars
per capita)
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Threats to Coastal Areas
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Coastal
and Marine Ecosystems
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Includes coastal statistics (Population density
in the Coastal Zone), coastal biodiversity and protected
areas data, fisheries production, fish consumption and
trade and fishing effort.
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Climate Change
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Climate
and Atmosphere
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Includes data on CO2 emissions CO2 emissions by sector,
CO2 intensity (CO2/GDP), and data non-CO2
air pollution.
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Ozone Layer Depletion
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Water Resources
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WRI EarthTrends Country Profiles
Water Resources
and Freshwater Ecosystems
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Includes data on internal renewable water resources,
natural renewable water resources, water withdrawals
Withdrawals by the Agriculture Sector), desalination
and freshwater fish species.
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World’s
Water Water Data
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This section of The World's Water website is devoted
to tables, figures, and maps from the World’s Water
books. One of the tables includes Withdrawals by
the Agriculture Sector.
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Fish Resources
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Forest Resources
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FAOSTAT
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FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database
currently containing over 3 million time-series records
covering international statistics in various areas including
agriculture, forestry, fisheries and population.
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FAO AQUASTAT
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AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system
of water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water
Development Division of FAO. The objective of AQUASTAT
is to provide users with comprehensive information on
the state of agricultural water management across the
world, with emphasis on developing countries and countries
in transition
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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center
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The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
provides information for policy and action to conserve
the living world. The programmes concentrate on species,
forests, protected areas, marine, mountains and freshwaters;
plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar
regions. We also address the relationship between trade
and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity
assessment
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UNSTATS
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UNSTATS provided to selected global datasets,
such as the Millennium Indicators Database, which presents
48 social and economic indicators and related series
by country and year since 1985, and the Social Indicators
data set
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UNSTATS Millennium Indicators
Database
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A framework of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators
to measure progress towards the Millennium Development
goals was adopted by a consensus of experts from the
United Nations Secretariat and IMF, OECD and the World
Bank. ( Road Map towards the Implementation of the United
Nations Millennium Declaration. Each indicator is linked
to millennium data series as well as to background series
related to the target in question.
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World Bank Data and Statistics
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WB – Data and Statistics includes country-level
indicator data on people, environment, economy, technology
and infrastructure and trade and finance. The data for
1998, 2001and 2002 originate from the World Development
Indicators database .
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World Resource Institute EarthTrends
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EARTHTRENDS is a World Resource Institute Environmental
Information Portal containing maps, country profiles,
data tables in for some 220 countries in 10 environmental
theme areas including: coastal and marine ecosystems,
water resources and freshwater ecosystems, climate and
atmosphere, population health and human well-being,
economics business and the environment, energy and resources,
biodiversity and protected areas, agriculture and food,
forests grasslands and drylands, and environmental
governance and institutions.
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World’s Water
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World's Water, a site dedicated to providing
up-to-date water information, data, and web connections
to organizations, institutions, and individuals working
on a wide range of global freshwater problems and solutions.
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