Africa Environment Outlook 2: Our Environment, Our Wealth (e-book)

Introduction

Section 1: Environment for Development
Chapter 1: The Human Dimension

• Human dimension of development in Africa
• Environmental change and socioeconomic factors in Africa
• Human well-being and livelihoods in Africa
• Policy and legal responses for sustainable development in Africa
• Harnessing the opportunities for environment and development in Africa

Section 2: Environmental State-and-Trends: 20-Year Retrospective
Chapter 2: Atmosphere

• Regional synthesis
  • Atmospheric resources in Africa
  • Endowments and Opportunities
  • Threats to atmospheric resources in Africa
  • Challenges Faced in Realizing Opportunities for Development
• Sub-regional overviews
  • Eastern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Western Indian Ocean Islands
• Conclusion

Chapter 3: Land

• Regional synthesis
  • Land resources in Africa
• Endowments and opportunities
  • Agriculture
  • Urbanization
  • Mining and Oil Extraction
  • Tourism and Recreation
• Challenges faced in realizing opportunities for development
  • HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Other Diseases
  • Land degradation an desertification
  • Climate variability and change
  • Pests and invasive alien species
  • Governance and land policies
• Sub-regional overviews
  • Central Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Western Indian Ocean Islands
• Conclusion

Chapter 4: Freshwater

• Regional synthesis
  • Freshwater resources in Africa
  • Endowments and opportunities
  • Challenges Faced in realizing Opportunities for Development
  • Strategies for Enhancing Opportunities for Development
• Sub-regional overviews
  • Central Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Western Indian Ocean Islands
• Conclusion

Chapter 5: Coastal and Marine Environments

• Regional synthesis
  • Coastal and marine environments in Africa
  • Endowments and Opportunities
  • Challenges Faced in realizing Opportunities for Development
• Sub-regional overviews
  • Central Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Western Indian Ocean Islands
• Conclusion
  
  Chapter 6: Forests and Woodlands
• Regional synthesis
  • Forests and woodlands in Africa
  • Endowments and Opportunities
  • Challenges Faced in Realizing Opportunities for Development
• Sub-regional overviews
  • Central Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Western Indian Ocean islands
• Conclusion

Chapter 7: Biodiversity

• Regional synthesis
  • Biodiversity in Africa
  • Endowments and opportunities
  • Challenges Faced in Realizing Opportunities for Development
• Sub-regional overviews
  • Central Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Western Indian Ocean Islands
• Conclusion

Chapter 8: Interlinkages: The environment and policy web

• Introduction
• Building Interlinkages
• Improving Understanding through Interlinkages
• Improving responses: Interlinkages in Policy
• Empowering people and institutions: instiutional and governance interlinkages
• Seizing opportunities: Interlinkages in Environment for Development
• Conclusion

Section 3: Emerging Challenges
Chapter 9: Genetically Modified Crops

• Introduction
• State-and-Trends
• Drivers and Constraints
• Opportunities and Risks
• Responses
• The Way Forward: Opportunities and Constraints

Chapter 10: Invasive Alien Species

• Introduction
• State-and-trends
• Impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems
• Challenges for Realizing Development Opportunities
• Developing Effective Responses
• Conclusion

Chapter 11: Chemicals

• State-and-trends
• Opportunities and Risks
• Management Challenges
• Responses: Policy and Institutional Arrangements
• Conclusion

Chapter 12: Environment for Peace and Regional Cooperation

• Introduction
• Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Development
• Armed Conflict a Threat to Regional Cooperation
• Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Armed Conflict
• Conclusion

Section 4: Outlook
Chapter 13: The Future Today

• Introduction
• The Characteristics of Four Scenarios
• Driving Forces
• Regional scenarios
  
• Regional Scenario Narratives: Land
• Regional Scenario Narratives: Freshwater
• Regional Scenario Narratives: Atmosphere
• Regional Scenario Narratives: Coastal and Marine Environments
• Sub-regional scenarios
  
• Eastern Africa
• Central Africa
• Northern Africa
• Western Africa
• Western Indian Ocean islands
• Conclusion

Section 5: Policy Opportunities
Chapter 14: Back to Our Common Future: A Renaissance for the Environment

• Introduction
• Policy options for action
• The Human Dimension
• The Atmosphere
• Land
• Freshwater
• Coastal and Marine Environments
• Forests and Woodlands
• Biodiversity
• Genetically Modified Crops
• Invasive Alien Species
• Chemicals
• Africa's renaissance for the environment: environment for peace and regional cooperation
• Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States
• Policy Interlinkages
• Africa's renaissance for the environment: conclusion