This handbook is a draft stand-alone toolkit for teaching and learning ecological economics through front-line activist experience and knowledge. Is the product of collaborative efforts between environmental activists and ecological economists from around the world belonging to the CEECEC network.

Governments and law-makers need to integrate environmental concerns into water-use legislation to avert an impending global water crisis, according to this new UNEP report launched at World Water Week in Stockholm. 

In the current context of economic instability, young men and women today face increasing uncertainty in their hopes of making a satisfactory labour market transition. Clearly, the global economic crisis has further exposed the fragility of youth in the labour market.

This new global study by Carbon Disclosure Project based on survey of 291 largest transport companies which include road, rail, sea and air transport reveals that majority of transport firms are not adapting to the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

This review of World Bank’s water strategy, calls for better information and an integrated approach to water management. It calls for renewed emphasis on integration of new technologies, hydro power; climate change adaptation, agriculture and sanitation. It also describes implementation of the strategy on the ground within seven countries and provides regional cases.

This study of the economics of adaptation to climate change follows the sector approach, with separate estimates of adaptation measures for infrastructure, water, agriculture, industrial forestry, fisheries, coastal zones, human health, and ecosystems.

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The objective of the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles
was to explore ways to engage, exemplify, enable and encourage
people, civil society organizations and governments to further
sustainability in people's everyday lives. Nine Task Force projects
cover activities in 43 countries across every region of the world.

This paper shows that there is ample scope for employing EIA procedures as a vehicle for enhancing the resilience of projects to the impacts of climate change.