Climate, Forest, Biodiversity and Desert

Contents: Preface. Glossary of terms. 1. Gobal laws, policies and action plans on climate change. 2. Protecting the forests and forestry around the world. 3. Global guidelines on biodiversity and biosafety. 4. Global law, policy, action plan to Combat desertification. 5. Conservation and management of resources for environment and development action plan as per agenda 21. Bibliography. Index.

"Protecting the forests and forestry around the world has become a big challenge today.

This book covers the most vital and immediate concerns of today\'s environment and tries to provide readers with global environmental guidelines with respective to climatic changes, forest management, biodiversity conservation, bio safety and desert protection. It covers the global framework conventions on climate change and biological diversity. The forest principles and bio safety protocols are presented. The convention on combating desertification is dealt. So is the agenda 21 action plan with respect to natural resources and their conservation. In sum, this volume covers the most important environmental regime of today\'s world required for the sustainable development of our ecological and social systems. Special focus lies on measures to protect the developing countries from the risk of contamination from GMOS by preventing unannounced imports of products containing living modified organisms in the form of Cartagena Protocol on bio safety."