Product Description: The joint USAID/World Resources Institute (WRI) Information Working Group for Africa have released GIS: Supporting Environmental Planning and Management in West Africa (also available in French). The report of three West African countries concludes that benefits can be gained from the use of modern information technologies in environmental planning and in managing natural resources...read more

Product Description: A critical step in improving the way we manage the earth's ecosystems is to take stock of their condition and their capacity to provide the goods and services we will need in years to come. The Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems (PAGE) aims to address this gap...read more

Product Description: Increased investment by Asian logging companies from Malaysia and Indonesia is depleting the forests in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific at a higher rate and at greater cost to the environment. This South-to-South trade is causing an important shift in how forests are logged and who are the new buyers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)