Browsing Natural Sciences by Issue Date

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    • Monitoring For Groundwater Management In Semi Region 

      A.J.VAN LANEN, DR.IR HENNY (UNESCO, 1998)
      Groundwater is an important resource for drinking water, irrigated agriculture and industry. It also is a key factor in the preservation of ecologically relevant wetlands. Degradation of groundwater is a serious problem ...

    • Water People and Cooperation 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2015)
      The initiation of IHD had a profound effect on the conduct of hydrological research in Canada. The setting up of a series of small representative and experimental basins in which instrumentation and measurement ...

    • Guidelines On How To Collect Sex-Disaggregated Water Data 

      Pangare, Vasudha (UNESCO, 2015)
      The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (UN WWAP)1 has launched a groundbreaking project to develop and test the collection of key gender-disaggregated water data. UN WWAP is developing a priority set of ...

    • Report on The Popularization of Sciences Using Champion Teachers 

      UNATCOM (Uganda National Commission for UNESCO, 2017-12)
      According to its Medium Term Framework (2014-2022), UNESCO will firstly provide policy advice on science, technology and innovation (STI) and strengthening of STI capacities, and secondly enhance international ...

    • Promoting Nomination of Important Natural Sites for Designation as sites for Sustainable Governance and Climate Change Adaptation in Uganda 

      Uganda National Commission for UNESCO (Uganda National Commission for UNESCO, 2018)
      Uganda is richly endowed with a variety of unique natural systems in form of environmental, geological, pastoral and agro-ecological resources that have not been or least documented in terms of their value in research ...

    • UNESCO's Commitment To Biodiversity 

      MCRONALD, DAVID (UNESCO, 2018)

    • Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals 

      UNESCO; International Centre for Engineering Education (UNESCO, 2021)
      The report highlights the crucial role of engineering in achieving each of the 17 SDGs. It shows how equal opportunities for all is key to ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced profession that can better respond to the ...

    • Restoring biodiversity, reviving life 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021)
      Year after year, scientific studies are condemned to chronicle the sixth mass extinction - the decline of living organisms, the loss of species, the over-exploitation of resources, and the degradation of natural ...

    • The ocean: time to turn the tide 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021)
      Less than twenty per cent of the world's oceans have been explored so far. That is not a lot. But it is enough for us to know that the oceans are threatened by global warming, acidification, and pollution. Coral bleaching ...

    • Climate Change Vulnerability Hotspots in The East African Indian Ocean Islands 

      Ogada, Tom. M; Partey, Samuel; Ramasamy, Jayakumar; Owade, Ombaka; Obunga, Patrick (UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, 2022)
      This report is the first of its kind of the four island countries of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) that maps the climate change vulnerabilities of each and provide a regional comparison. Climate change and its related ...

    • Should we be afraid of neuroscience? 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2022)
      In the field of neuroscience, reality has already surpassed fiction. Who could have imagined that it would one day be possible to implant false memories in an animal's brain, or to dictate a text to a computer by using ...

    • Climate Change Vulnerability Hotspots In The Eastern African 

      M. Ogada, Tom; Samuel, Partey; Ramasamy, Jayakumar; Ombaka, Owade; Obunga, Patrick (UNESCO, 2022)
      Climate change has become the greatest and most common challenge to socioeconomic development for Eastern Africa. Generating the necessary evidence to stimulate policy actions and implementing interventions for averting ...

    • Lake Victoria Basin Ecosystem Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Project 

      Uganda National Commission for UNESCO (Uganda National Commission for UNESCO, 2022)
      This report is an account of work accomplished towards the planned nomination of Lake Victoria also known as Nalubaale or Victoria Nyanza to UNESCO for designation as a Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (TBR). This lake which ...

    • Strengthening Disaster Prevention Approaches in East Africa (STEDPEA) 

      UNATCOM (Uganda National Commission for UNESCO, 2022)
      This report is about the national training conducted in the country to build capacity for disaster prevention in Uganda. It is a response to the many disasters experienced over the past decade. With high sensitivity ...

    • Youth and Water Security in Africa 

      Unknown author (UNESCO, 2022)
      The sustenance of life through nutrition, health maintenance and provision of support infrastructure across many social-economic as well as environmental sectors has clean water availability and affordability requirements. ...

    • Gender perspectives of Water Use and Governance in Eastern Africa: a Systematic Review 

      Mary Nyasimi; Samuel Tetteh Partey; Jayakumar Ramasamy; Anne Lilande; Alexandros Makarigakis (UNESCO, 2023)
      This report examines the extent to which water initiatives (policies, strategies, plans, projects and programmes) have integrated a gender lens in thirteen countries in Eastern Africa (namely, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, ...