Publications
Our publications include more than traditional reports. They span formats such as StoryMaps, apps, photo essays and multimedia. Each one is designed to communicate complex environmental challenges in ways that are visual, engaging, and grounded in real-world impact.
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The Arctic Science Agreement Propels Science Diplomacy
Global geopolitics are fueling the renewal of East-West tensions, with deteriorating U.S.-Russia relations in the wake of conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, issues involving cyber-security, and broader concerns about expanding militarization. Against this backdrop, the Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation, signed on 11 May 2017 by foreign ministers of the eight Arctic States,…
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Mountain Adaptation Outlook Series: Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathians is one of the largest mountain areas of Europe and hosts exceptional biodiversity, …
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Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Barents Area
Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Barents Area. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
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Deep-Water Zooplankton in the Mediterranean Sea: Results from a Continuous, Synchronous Sampling over Different Regions Using Sediment Traps
Information on the dynamics of deep-sea biota is extremely scant particularly for long-term time series on deep-sea zooplankton. Here, we present the results of a deep-sea zooplankton investigation over one annual cycle based on samples from sediment trap moorings in three sub-basins along the Mediterranean Sea. Deep-sea zooplankton assemblages were dominated by copepods, as in…
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State of the Environment in the Raet National Marine Park (Southern Norway): Application of the Expert Elicitation Assessment Method in a Marine Protected Area
The report describes the application of the expert elicitation method to document the state of the environment of the Raet National Park.
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Miljøtilstanden i Raet Nasjonalpark (Sør-Norge): Anvendelse av Ekspertpanelmetoden i et Marint Verneområde
Formålet med denne rapporten er å beskrive hvordan en ekspertpanelvurdering kan anvendes på miljøtilstanden i Raet Nasjonalpark
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Origin and Characteristics of Ocean Basins
The results of a multivariate classification of ocean basins is presented, based on an existing digital global map of seafloor features that are related to major phases of evolution, namely young, mature, declining and terminal evolutionary stages.
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Submarine Canyons and Gullies
Submarine canyons are deep incisions observed along most of the world’s continental margins. Their topographic relief is as dramatic as that of any canyon or river valley on land but is hidden beneath the surface of the ocean. Our knowledge of canyons has therefore come primarily from remote sensing and sampling, and has involved contributions…
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nbfn.no
The Norwegian Blue Forests Network site, by GRID-Arendal, promotes blue forest conservation and is available in English and Norwegian.
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Mountain Adaptation Outlook Series: Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the Central Asian Mountains
The report focuses on the impacts of climate change on people, ecosystems and the economies of the Central Asian countries.
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20 Years of Action – Indigenous Peoples at the Arctic Council
The Arctic Council celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016. One of its unique and most important features is the presence of Indigenous…
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Strengthening Women’s Roles as Risk and Resource Managers at the Frontline of Climate Change
Climate change in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya (HKH) already affects the region’s livelihoods and environment, posing threats to water…
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The Trade in Plastic Waste
A story map on the players and problems in the international trade in scrap plastic.
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The Socio-Economics of the West, Central and Southern African Coastal Communities: A Synthesis of Studies Regarding Large Marine Ecosystems
People living along the west, central and southern African coast are directly dependent on the health of Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs)
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Blue Carbon Financing of Mangrove Conservation in the Abidjan Convention Region: A Feasibility Study
The coast of West, Central and Southern Africa contains approximately 14 per cent of the world’s mangrove area.
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A Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Ocean Based on Environmental Data
The existence, sources, distribution, circulation, and physicochemical nature of macroscale oceanic water bodies have long been a focus of oceanographic inquiry. Building on that work, this paper describes an objectively derived and globally comprehensive set of 37 distinct volumetric region units, called ecological marine units (EMUs).
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Lake Victoria Basin: Atlas of our Changing Environment
Supporting a population of 40 million, the Lake Basin provides a variety of economic and development opportunities.
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Illegal Logging and Trade in Forest Products in the Russian Federation
Transnational organized environmental crime is a rapidly growing threat to the environment, to revenues from natural resources, to state…
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Ecological Role of Submarine Canyons and Need for Canyon Conservation: A Review
Submarine canyons are major geomorphic features of continental margins around the world. Several recent multidisciplinary projects focused..
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Limpopo River Basin – Disaster Risk in a Changing Environment
This Story Map describes the disaster risk profile of the Limpopo River Basin and is a synthesis of material drawn from the forthcoming…
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Organized Forest Crime: A Criminological Analysis with Suggestions from Timber Forensics
This chapter addresses the question of illegal timber from the perspective of criminology, the academic science of crime. Criminology is a so-called ‘domain science’ rather than an academic discipline, with practitioners from a variety of disciplines, such as psychology, law and the social sciences. This chapter focuses solely on criminal logging, logging that is related…
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Global Governance Approaches to Addressing Illegal Logging: Uptake and Lessons Learnt
This chapter seeks to shed light on the task of ameliorating illegal logging and related timber trade by identifying and nurturing the promising global governance interventions capable of helping improve compliance to governmental policies and laws at national, subnational and local levels. This is done by asking four related questions: How do we understand the…
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52 Million Points and Counting: A New Stratification Approach for Mapping Global Marine Ecosystems
We report progress on the Ecological Marine Units (EMU) project, a new undertaking commissioned by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) as a means of developing a standardized and practical global ecosystems classification and map for the oceans, and thus a key outcome of the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). The project is one…
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Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions: Sources and Solutions
Mountains play an essential role in supplying water, energy, food and other services to millions of people living in the mountains and…
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Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade – Dimensions, Drivers, Impacts and Responses: A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report
The report is the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date on illegal logging and available response options. More than 40 renowned…
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The Coastal Ecosystem Mapping and Media Viability Project
The Coastal Ecosystem Mapping and Media Utility project applied advanced and pioneering unmanned aerial vehicle technology with companion…
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Illegal Gold Mining in Colombia Is Destroying the Rainforest
Illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Chocó province, despite crackdowns by the government, is causing environmental destruction and harming…
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Combating Poaching and Illegal Logging in Tanzania: Voices of the Rangers-Hands-on Experiences from the Field
This report addresses training efforts in anti-poaching in Tanzania.
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Blue Carbon-Nationally Determined Contributions Inventory: Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems
This appendix provides an inventory of the existing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ratified National Determined…