Publications on climate change issues
Publications on climate change issues in the context of countries of Central Asia and the region as a whole
Cities in Europe and Central Asia : A Shifting Story of Urban Growth and Decline
This report is organized in four sections. Section one provides an overview of the context in which many ECA cities consolidated. This section includes a review of the key factors that shaped the urban systems of ECA, including a discussion of the implication of urbanizing under planned economies and a discussion of recent demographic trends …
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ANNUAL CROPLAND MAPPING USING REFERENCE LANDSAT TIME SERIES—A CASE STUDY IN CENTRAL ASIA
Mapping the spatial and temporal dynamics of cropland is an important prerequisite for regular crop condition monitoring, management of land and water resources, or tracing and understanding the environmental impacts of agriculture. Analyzing archives of satellite earth observations is a proven means to accurately identify and map croplands. However, existing maps of the annual cropland …
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Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review
Central Asia is geopolitically and strategically important because of its geographic position. The Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are situated in the heart of the Eurasian continent and form a trade link between China, the Middle East, and Europe. Upon entering into membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, this region has …
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SoilGrids (ISRIC)
SoilGrids is designed as a globally consistent, data-driven system that predicts soil properties and classes using global covariates and globally fitted models. If you are looking for soil information on national and/or local levels we advise you, before using SoilGrids, to compare SoilGrids predictions with soil maps derived from national and local soil geographical databases. …
The Restoration Initiative Year in Review 2019
The 2019 Year in Review for The Restoration Initiative (TRI) details progress and stories from the first year of its implementation. With support from the GEF, this pathbreaking program led by the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the UN Environment …
Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Uzbekistan
The study on the State of Forests and Forest Management in Uzbekistan aims to present the forest resources and the forest sector of the country, including trends in, and pressures on, the resource, to describe the policies and institutions for the forest sector and to list the major challenges the sector faces, and the policy …
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Caspian Sea countries take stock and lay out new ambitions to tackle environmental challenges
The ’Caspian Sea State of the Environment Report’ presents a sober diagnosis of the challenges faced by the Sea and its marine environment. The report is the second in a row of analytical overviews underlying the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea (Tehran Convention). The …
Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program: Dryland Sustainable Landscapes
Under the 7th GEF replenishment, GEF-7, Impact Programs (IPs) on Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR); Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); and Sustainable Cities are being developed to address the drivers of environmental degradation, and to support transformational change in these key systems.
Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program: Congo Basin Sustainable Landscapes
Under the 7th GEF replenishment, GEF-7, Impact Programs (IPs) on Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR); Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); and Sustainable Cities are being developed to address the drivers of environmental degradation, and to support transformational change in these key systems.