Prepared for the United Nations Environment Programme, this biennial reference is a source volume of verified and annotated data that provides a basis for detailed environmental assessments at the national and international level. The reports also cover environmentally-related sectors such as transport, energy, human health, and industry to satisfy the needs of decision makers. Linkages between the different sectors or environmental concerns are made in each report. Because it is not possible for any single report to contain all the data and information which are available for a particular sector or topic, each report contains data chosen to illustrate selected topical issues, geographical concerns, transboundary issues, and global data collections. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Read Less