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Ecosystem services: Tourism
Tourism is an important and growing economic sector for East Africa. Economic revenues from tourism for Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, DRC and Tanzania…
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Ecosystem services: Energy
Access to electricity is one of East Africa’s key constraints. In the majority of the subregion, less than 20% of the population has access…
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Projected change in the distribution of malaria’s vectors
Under a climate change scenario with a rise of 2°C Africa wide temperature, 10% increase of summer rainfall and 10% decrease in winter rainfall.…
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East Africa region
The majority of countries in Africa have land that is over 1,500 m above sea level, and therefore classified as mountainous (UNEP 2014). East…
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Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon is shared between Uganda and Kenya and stands at a height of about 4,000 metres above sea level (MoWE, 2013). In Uganda,…
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Arctic sea routes – Northern sea route and Northwest passage
Sea routes along the edges of the Arctic ocean, or rather along the coasts of Northern Canada and Russia, holds potential for decreasing the…
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Arctic, topography and bathymetry (topographic map)
The Arctic represents the northernmost area of the World, the Arctic Ocean and the land areas that surrounds it. The region is characterized but…
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Tree line in the Arctic
This graphic shows the location of the arctic tree line. Boreal forest occurs only to the south of the tree line (the dark green…
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Ok Tedi mine
The Ok Tedi mine is located high in the rain forest covered Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea. Prior to 1981 the local Wopkaimin…
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Curitiba, Brazil
Curitiba has become world-famous for its original approach to basic municipal problems thanks to a unique mixture of innovative town planning, determined political leadership…
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Nenets Autonomous Okrug sites
Map, illustrating the communities, cities and sites from where the stories for the 'Indigenous Knowledge in Disaster Management' project has been collected and are…
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The Baltic Sea Drainage Basin
This 'basemap' displays the extent of the drainage basin (the boundary for the water that ends up in the Baltic Sea), and the countries…