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Global Environment Outlook 3 - Synthesis
Synthesis / overview of the UNEP GEO-3 report - including good overviews of major global environmental issues. PDF format
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

World Resources 2000-01: Summary
From the World Resources 2000-01 report: 'People and Ecosystems; The Fraying Web of Life'. Looks at ecosystems and human impacts on them.
World Resources Institute

Global Environment Outlook 3 - Integrating Environment and Development: 1972-2002
Chapter 1 of the UNEP GEO-3 report. Provides an overview of environment and development issues over the past 30 years. Includes a good overview of major milestones in environmental history and major initiatives of the past 3 decades. (PDF Format)
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO-3)
One of the leading assessments of the global environment. The study takes a unique look at the policies and environmental impacts of the past 30 years. It then outlines four policy approaches for the next three decades and compares and contrasts the likely impacts on people and the natural world.
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

Living Planet Report 2002
The Living Planet Report is WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index - and the human pressures on them through the consumption of renewable natural resources - as measured by the Ecological Footprint.
WWF

World Resources 2000-2001-- People and ecosystems: The fraying web of life
Prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Bank, and the World Resources Institute . World Resources 2000-2001 is the definitive guide to the global environment. The millennial edition presents a comprehensive assessment of five of the world's major ecosystems: agroecosystems; coastal and marine ecosystems; forest ecosystems; freshwater systems; grassland ecosystems
World Resources Institute