Author: United NationsDag Hammarskjold Library United Nat
Publisher: United Nations
Keywords: july, september, index, documents, nations, united
Number of Pages: 1076
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 921101154X
ISBN-13: 9789211011548

The United Nations Documents Index provides information on documents and publications issued by United Nations offices worldwide. The information is presented in nine sections covering the areas of documents and publications; official records; sales publications; United Nations maps included in UN documents; United Nations sheet maps; United Nations document series symbols; author index; title index and subject index. The index is a two part set.

Author: United Nations Development Programme United
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme
Keywords: human, solidarity, divided, world, change, climate, development, report, fighting
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0230547044
ISBN-13: 9780230547049

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity at the start of the 21st Century. Failure to meet that challenge raises the spectre of unprecedented reversals in human development. This years Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget. The Report explains how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation. Because climate change is a global problem with global causes and effects, it demands a global response with coun

Author: United Nations Development ProgrammeUnited Nation
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme
Keywords: global, water, crises, poverty, power, development, report, scarcity, human
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2006-11-09
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0230500587
ISBN-13: 9780230500587

The 2006 Human Development Report focuses on water and human development. Water is central to the realization of human potential. It is a source of life for people and for the planet. Clean water and sanitation have a profound bearing on health and human dignity. Inequalities in access to clean water for drinking and to water as a productive input, reinforce wider inequalities in opportunity. With competition for water intensifying, there is a danger that poor and vulnerable communities will become increasingly marginalized. The twin challenge facing governments and donors is to accelerate pro

Author: United States Bureau of the CensusUnited State Bu
Publisher: Clearfield Co
Keywords: viginia, records, state, enumerations, year, states, families, first, census, united, heads
Number of Pages: 189
Published:
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0806303441
ISBN-13: 9780806303444

No other official record or group of records is as historically significant as the 1790 census of the United States. The taking of this census marked the inauguration of a process that continues right up to our own day--the enumeration at ten-year intervals of the entire American population. In its very continuity the census is a mirror image of the evolution of the American republic, and the census of 1790, the first official enumeration of all heads of household residing in the infant republic, is the true starting point of this process, the place where we can point a finger and say with con

Author: United Nations Commission On InternationUnited Na
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: trade, law, yearbook, international, commission, united, nations, uncitral
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9211336295
ISBN-13: 9789211336290

The Yearbook covers the Commission’s report on its work as well as related documents, studies, reports and notes, and the action thereon by UNCTAD and the General Assembly. It also covers specific subjects such as assignment in receivables financing; electronic commerce; and privately financed infrastructure projects.

Author: United Nations ConferenceUnited Nations Conferenc
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: statistics, trade, mineral, world, handbook
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 9211125197
ISBN-13: 9789211125191

This handbook provides consistent data at the world, regional and country levels for the international trade of the major non-fuel minerals and metals, from primary to semi-processed forms. This is the first comprehensive publication, which provides both quantities and values for these products. This year’s edition offers statistics for the years 1994 through 1996, facilitating the ability to undertake comparative analysis. Statistical analysts, academics and those in the field of mineral use and resources will find this publication invaluable.

Authors:United Nations Office in Geneva, United Nations,
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: international, geneva, institutions, activities, yearbook, organization
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2000-11-10
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 9210020448
ISBN-13: 9789210020442

The International Geneva Yearbook 2000-2001 is an essential reference source on international activities and organizations in Geneva. This comprehensive Yearbook includes information on activities, people and addresses of 40 United Nations bodies; 23 specialized agencies and other organizations with different statues; 138 non-governmental organizations, 27 research and educational institutions; and the permanent missions. It also includes a series of articles in which eminent specialists offer their views and comments on the latest political, legal, social and economic issues being discussed i