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oapen-20.500.12657-570882022-08-03T11:42:00Z Keeping the World’s Environment under Review Bakkes, Jan Cheatle, Marion Mžavanadze, Nora Pintér, László Witt, Ronald G. Sustainable development, Environment, Assessment, Outlook, Policy interface, Global bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world’s environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the myriad detailed narratives about the condition of the planet, the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports—issued by the United Nations Environment Programme—stand out as the most ambitious. For nearly three decades the GEO project has not only delivered iconic global assessment reports, but through its multitude of contributors has inspired hundreds of similar processes worldwide from the regional to the local level. This book provides an inside account of the evolution of the GEO project from its earliest days. Building on meticulous research, including interviews with former heads of the United Nations Environment Programme, diplomats, leading contributing scientists, and senior leaders of collaborating organizations, the story is told from the perspective of five GEO veterans who all played a pivotal role in shaping the periodic assessments. The GEO’s history provides striking insights and will save valuable time to those who commission, design and conduct, as well as critique and improve, assessments of environmental development in the next decade. 2022-06-23T13:25:01Z 2022-06-23T13:25:01Z 2022 book 9789633864319 9789633865958 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57088 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789633864326.pdf Central European University Press 10.7829/9789633864326 10.7829/9789633864326 5427f84f-0815-48ff-aac8-56f6200fccab 6154ce6f-c15f-4585-8452-f45081d58d14 Knowledge Unlatched 9789633864319 9789633865958 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 534 Central European University CEU open access
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How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world’s environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the myriad detailed narratives about the condition of the planet, the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports—issued by the United Nations Environment Programme—stand out as the most ambitious. For nearly three decades the GEO project has not only delivered iconic global assessment reports, but through its multitude of contributors has inspired hundreds of similar processes worldwide from the regional to the local level.
This book provides an inside account of the evolution of the GEO project from its earliest days. Building on meticulous research, including interviews with former heads of the United Nations Environment Programme, diplomats, leading contributing scientists, and senior leaders of collaborating organizations, the story is told from the perspective of five GEO veterans who all played a pivotal role in shaping the periodic assessments. The GEO’s history provides striking insights and will save valuable time to those who commission, design and conduct, as well as critique and improve, assessments of environmental development in the next decade.
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