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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    Italy

    This issue of Unasylva focuses on the recently completed FAO assessment of forest resources at a global level, with 1990 taken as the reference year (a similar assessment was undertaken a decade ago). The articles presented in this issue consider the data generated in the assessment as well as some of the difficult underlying questions inherent in forest resource assessment.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    Brazil, Italy

    The main objectives of the present assessment were: (i) to provide reliable and globally consistent information on the state of the tropical forests by 1990 and the rates of change during 1981 to 1990 and (ii) to undertake studies on the process of deforestation and forest degradation and their environmental implications.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    Qatar, France, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Luxembourg, Iraq, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Canada, Congo, Uruguay, Mozambique, Laos, Yemen, Philippines, Oman, Myanmar, Portugal, Paraguay, Ghana, Europe, Africa, Northern America, Asia

    Dans de nombreuses régions du monde, les ressources en eau de plus en plus limitées et la mauvaise utilisation de l’eau douce mettent en péril le développement durable. Plus des deux tiers de l’eau prélevée dans les fleuves, lacs et nappes aquifères étant utilisés pour l’irrigation, l’agriculture est de plus en plus considérée comme la soupape de sécurité du système.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    India, Senegal, Kyrgyzstan, Burundi, China, Italy
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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    France, United States of America, Spain, Germany, China, Indonesia, Cuba, Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, India, Brazil, Cambodia
  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    Finland, Nicaragua, Chile, Mexico, Italy

    Over the past two decades, perspectives on the role of the forest for society have evolved and broadened dramatically; the relatively narrow official view of the forest as primarily a source of wood and a form of protection for upland water resources has been seriously questioned and sometimes even violently opposed in favour of an approach that reflects a wider range of present and future opportunities and demands from forests and forest resources.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    India, Chile, Mexico, Italy

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