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TITLE: International Geneva Yearbook: Organization and Activities of International Institutions in Geneva YEAR: 2000/01 VOLUME: XIV LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: GV.00.0.11 ISBN: 9210020448 PAGES: 624pp. PRICE: $40.00 DESCRIPTION: The International Geneva Yearbook 2000-2001 is an essential reference source on international activities and organizations in Geneva. This comprehensive Yearbook includes information on activities, people and addresses of 40 United Nations bodies; 23 specialized agencies and other organizations with different statues; 138 non-governmental organizations, 27 research and educational institutions; and the permanent missions. It also includes a series of articles in which eminent specialists offer their views and comments on the latest political, legal, social and economic issues being discussed in Geneva. This publication includes two comprehensive indexes in French and in English of the people and the institutions and a calendar of meetings. TITLE: World Robotics: Statistics, Market Analysis, Forecasts, Case Studies and Profitability of Robot Investment YEAR: 2000 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GV.00.0.14 ISBN: 9211010292 PAGES: 376pp. PRICE: $120.00 DESCRIPTION: World Robotics 2000 is the only publication which presents comprehensive global statistics on industrial robots as well as on service robots in uniform tables allowing consistent country comparisons. It contains detailed statistical data for some 20 countries, broken down by application areas, industrial branches, types of robots and by other techno-economic variables. Data on production, exports and imports are presented for a selection of countries. Trends in robot densities, i.e., number of robots per 10,000 employed, are also highlighted. Developments in 1999 are analyzed in detail and forecasts up to 2003 are presented. A special section is devoted to case studies, showing actual robot installations and what effects they have on costs, production and employment structure as well as overall profitability. Here the reader can get "hands-on" information about different companies' actual experience using robots. This unique yearbook is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the development of industrial robots and the technological vanguard of modern manufacturing. Almost encyclopaedic in scope, it provides the foundation for further analysis. TITLE: United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific: Kuala Lumpur, 11-14 April 2000 YEAR: 15th Conf. LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 01.I.2 ISBN: 9211008549 SYMBOL: E/CONF.92/1 PAGES: 54pp. PRICE: $7.50 DESCRIPTION: This report of the Regional Cartographic Conference addresses the common needs, problems and experiences in the field of cartography in Asia and the Pacific. It also provides geographical information, including educational and training aspects, scientific and technological requirements, implementation issues and benefits. In addition, the report provides an assessment of the status of the resolutions adopted at the previous conference; reports on the developments and contributions of cartography and geographical information in support of the implementation of Agenda 21; and also on the progress in the development and implementation of national spatial data infrastructures. TITLE: International Court of Justice, The: Questions and Answers About the Principal Judicial Organ of the United Nations LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 99.I.25 ISBN: 9211008220 SYMBOL: DPI/2065 PAGES: 84pp. PRICE: $7.50 DESCRIPTION: The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It plays an important role in the peaceful settlement of legal disputes between States and contributes, both by its judgments and advisory opinions, to the development of international law. This book provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about its functioning and case-law, and have been placed under the following broad areas: What is the International Court of Justice?; Who sits on the International Court of Justice?; How does the International Court of Justice work?; The contentions procedure; the advisory procedure; the International Court of Justice in action; What does the future hold for the International Court of Justice?; and How to obtain more information. TITLE: Least Developed Countries, The: Aid, Private Capital Flows and External Debt - The Challenge of Financing Development in the LDCs YEAR: 2000 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.II.D.21 ISBN: 9211124913 SYMBOL: UNCTAD/LDC/2000 PAGES: 268pp. PRICE: $45.00 DESCRIPTION: What the world's poorest countries need most is not simply debt relief, but a "New Deal" in international development cooperation, contends UNCTAD in its Least Developed Countries 2000 Report. Almost two thirds of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) have an external debt burden, which is unsustainable according to international criteria. But past efforts to substantially decrease their debt service payments have failed, and recent attempts to finally resolve the debt problem through the Heavily Indebt Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative are not very promising either, the report says. The Report also looks at economic growth and social trends in the LDCs in the 1990s, financing development, and ways in which new approaches to partnerships can increase the effectiveness of aid. TITLE: Procedimientos de Gestión para el Desarrollo Sustentable SERIES: Manuales No.: 10 LANGUAGE: S. SALES #: 00.II.G.84 ISBN: 9213216378 SYMBOL: LC/L.1413-P PAGES: 372pp. PRICE: $10.00 DESCRIPTION: La presente guía proporciona los elementos necesarios para orientar procesos de gestión para el desarrollo sustentable y equitativo del ser humano, en ámbitos geosocioeconómicos claramente definidos. El documento ha sido escrito sobre la base de numerosas experiencias de desarrollo de regiones, micro-regiones y cuencas de América Latina y el Caribe. TITLE: Mujer y Trabajo en las Reformas Estructurales Latinoamericanas durante las Décadas de 1980 y 1990 SERIES: Mujer y Desarrollo No.: 28 LANGUAGE: S. SALES #: 00.II.G.94 ISBN: 9213216424 SYMBOL: LC/L.1378-P PAGES: 96pp. PRICE: $10.00 DESCRIPTION: El ingreso masivo y acelerado de las mujeres al mercado de trabajo es uno de los hechos más significativos de las últimas dos décadas en América Latina. Aunque aún persisten las brechas de acceso si comparamos la tasa de participación femenina con la masculina, es evidente que por la magnitud y velocidad mencionadas estamos ante un fenómeno cuyo significado económico, social y cultural aun no ha sido asumido plenamente por las políticas públicas. El ingreso de las mujeres al trabajo remunerado muestra por oposición la enorme tasa de ausencia masculina en el trabajo doméstico no remunerado. Ella ha mostrado también los efectos beneficiosos de la superación de la pobreza y está modificando los patrones de intercambio y relacionamiento familiar. TITLE: Reforma Educativa en el Paraguay, La SERIES: Políticas Sociales No.: 40 LANGUAGE: S. SALES #: 00.II.G.96 ISBN: 9213216513 SYMBOL: LC/L.1423-P PAGES: 32pp. PRICE: $10.00 DESCRIPTION: Una característica resaltante de la transición política que se inició en 1989 fue la reforma educativa. Uno de los ejes centrales de la reforma educativa paraguaya ha sido el de la educación en valores, la que refleja con claridad su objetivo de afianzamiento de una cultura democrática y de una capacidad para asumir con suficiente competencia los requerimientos que surgen de la creciente globalización. En ese orden, la reforma paraguaya insiste en igual medida en lograr una educación que permita que cada ciudadano adquiera la competencia para insertarse al cambiante y complejo mundo del trabajo. El estudio ofrece también referencia sobre las motivaciones y participación de los principales actores involucrados y los cambios de orden institucional. TITLE: Llano Estacado of the US Southern High Plains, The: Environmental Transformation and the Prospect of Sustainability LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.III.A.16 ISBN: 9280810421 SYMBOL: UNUP-1042 PAGES: 192pp. PRICE: $19.95 DESCRIPTION: Vast, nearly featureless and perceptibly high, the Llano Estacado of Texas, a subregion of the US Southern High Plains, is a daunting place. Its climate is challenging, with incessant winds that can fluctuate from soft spring-like breezes to ferocious howling blizzards and back again in the span of a week. This publication presents an environmental, social, and economic history of the Llano Estacado region. It illustrates the tremendous changes in environment that occurred with the European settlement of the Plains and details the development of a modern irrigation culture, dependent upon non-renewable or exhaustible water resources. Large-scale technological developments, national and state regulatory institutions, and global trade systems are featured as forces that have brought great wealth to the region while at the same time erecting an edifice that, because of resource depletion, cannot be sustained. The Llano Estacado of the US Southern High Plains shows how this "modern irrigation culture" developed and questions how it might be viewed through a sustainability lens, using a multiplicity of definitions of "sustainability" and its opposite "criticality". TITLE: Trade, Environment and the Millennium LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 99.III.A.35 ISBN: 928081043X SYMBOL: UNUP-1043 PAGES: 400pp. PRICE: $24.95 DESCRIPTION: The relationship between trade policy and environment policy remains a complex one. There has been much debate and discussion at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings but so much more is yet to be done to emphasize the need to strengthen environmental protection and ensure that trade rules support national policies providing for high levels of environmental protection. This publication attempts to raise an awareness of some of the key issues that should be discussed at future WTO negotiations by elaborating the concerns of both developing countries and environmentalists. Included in the book's presentation are such issues as: improving the agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary standards; environmental labelling schemes; the agreement on technical barriers to trade, the committee on trade and environment and eco-labelling; and environmental treaties and trade. TITLE: Electoral Management Bodies as Institutions of Governance LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.III.B.13 ISBN: 9211261325 PAGES: 248pp. PRICE: $20.00 DESCRIPTION: Electoral systems are the primary vehicle for choice and representational governance. Effective management of these electoral systems requires institutions that are inclusive, sustainable, just and independent. Electoral Management Bodies as Institutions of Governance provides the first empirical evidence that professionally staffed permanent and independent electoral institutions are critical for developing the sustainable capacity to conduct effective democratic elections. It describes the structures and functions of different kinds of EMBs worldwide; current trends in their development and reform; international factors that affect election management; and public opinion. It also tabulates the electoral budgets of 49 countries and in its concluding chapter presents a summary of findings and lessons learned from recent electoral experiences. TITLE: An Assessment of Risks and Threats to Human Health Associated with the Degradation of Ecosystems SERIES: Environment Information and Assessment Technical Report No.: 5 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.III.D.52 ISBN: 9280718347 SYMBOL: UNEP/DEIA&EW/TR.00-1 PAGES: 28pp. PRICE: $10.00 DESCRIPTION: This volume attempts to explain the consequences of environmental change and deterioration of ecosystems on human health and analyzes global, regional, and national trends. It assesses the status of and identifies scientific knowledge about this subject to provide a rational basis for decision-making in the formulation and implementation of environmental policy. The analysis indicates that most of the health impacts linked to degradation of the ecological system result from a combination of environmental processes that create conditions conducive to diseases. The volume comprises of numerous useful tables on ecosystem degradation and human health consequences at a regional and local level. TITLE: Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer: Report of the Technology and Economics Assessment Panel YEAR: April 2000 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.III.D.55 ISBN: 928071905X PAGES: 194pp. PRICE: $45.00 DESCRIPTION: This publication presents the responses and recommendations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) to the requests of action formulated by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. The requests concerns the following key points: review of essential use nominations for metered dose inhalers (MDIs); emissions of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs) from feedstock applications; report on new substances with Ozone Depleting Potential (ODP); progress and development in the control of substances with ODP; and TEAP coordination with the framework convention on climate change. TITLE: Overview on Land-based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine, Coastal and Associated Freshwater Environment in the West and Central African Region SERIES: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No.: 171 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.III.D.56 ISBN: 9280718003 PAGES: 118pp. PRICE: $20.00 DESCRIPTION: This publication aims at assisting the countries of the West and Central African region in their efforts to protect the marine environment and achieve sustainable development. It provides data and information for a comprehensive regional review on land-based sources and activities affecting the quality of the marine, coastal and associated freshwater environment. It addresses natural conditions and processes, anthropogenic impacts and its socio-economic implications, including losses of cultural heritage sites. The overview also contains information on emerging and foreseeable problems in the region, proposing priorities for action, and regional and international activities for cooperation. TITLE: Sustainable Development and the Future of Mineral Investment LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 01.III.D.2 ISBN: 9280719130 PAGES: 226pp. PRICE: $50.00 DESCRIPTION: Sustainable Development and the Future of Mineral Investment explores and analyzes how the concept of sustainable development can be related to mineral enterprises. It discusses a wide range of issues under three main areas: Perspectives on sustainable development; Processes for furthering sustainable development; and Assessment methodologies and indicators. TITLE: Yearbook of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia YEAR: 1997 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 99.III.P.2 ISBN: 9211567033 PAGES: 280pp. PRICE: $45.00 DESCRIPTION: A complete historical record of the work of the Tribunal. The 1997 edition of the Yearbook outlines the Tribunal's jurisdiction, activities of the tribunal during 1997, state cooperation, speeches by members of the Tribunal at various fora, and the Tribunal's contribution to the establishment of an International criminal Court. It also contains a select bibliography, lists of 1997 legal documents, press releases and UN Security Council and General Assembly Resolutions referring to the Tribunal. TITLE: Arms Control and Disarmament: A New Conceptual Approach SERIES: Disarmament Occasional Papers No.: 4 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 00.IX.5 ISBN: 9211422413 PAGES: 76pp. PRICE: $7.50 DESCRIPTION: Since the end of the cold war, the end of the post-cold war period and the beginning of the new century, there has been a constant search for a new approach to disarmament and arms control. This publication makes available the papers that were presented at a panel discussion in May 2000. The papers are: Arms control and disarmament: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's new conceptual approach; international security and arms control; A comprehensive approach to nuclear arms control; Conventional arms control in Europe; Arms control and conflicts in Africa; and A future agenda for arms control. TITLE: Repertoire de la Pratique Suivie par les Organes des Nations Unies: Articles 92 á 105 et 108 á 111 VOLUME: Vol.VI No.: Supp.6 LANGUAGE: F. SALES #: 99.V.10 ISBN: 9212333303 SYMBOL: NO SYMBOL PAGES: 212pp. PRICE: $25.00 TITLE: Método de Sistemas para la Compilación de las Cuentas Nacionales, Un: Informe Técnico SERIES: Manual de Contabilidad Nacional LANGUAGE: S. SALES #: 99.XVII.10 ISBN: 9213611935 SYMBOL: ST/ESA/STAT/SER.F/77 PAGES: 160pp. PRICE: $20.00 DESCRIPTION: La publicación de la versión revisada del Sistema de Cuentas Nacionales en 1993 fue el resultado de diez años de esfuerzos concertados de muchos especialistas en cuentas nacionales de organismos de estadística tanto nacionales como internacionales, orientados a actualizar, aclarar y simplificar el SCN de 1968 y a armonizarlo con otras normas internacionales de estadística. La difícil tarea que se plantea en estos momentos a la comunidad internacional es la de formular directrices prácticas para la aplicación del SCN 1993 en países que se encuentran en diferentes etapas de desarrollo en materia de estadística. La primer etapa para aplicar el SCN 1993 en un determinado país es que los usuarios y los productores de información sobre las cuentas nacionales realicen un esfuerzo conjunto por obtener una respuesta para los dos interrogantes siguientes: a) diseño del sistema; ¿cuál es le sistema/marco de cuentas nacionales para el país? b) realización del sistema; ¿cómo deberá compilarse el marco resultante de información sobre cuentas nacionales? El presente informe considera detenidamente estos dos interrogantes y representa los esfuerzos realizados por la División de Estadística de las Naciones Unidas (DENU) para definir un enfoque sistemático para el diseño y realización efectiva de un marco de contabilidad nacional para un país. TITLE: Development with a Human Face: Experiences in Social Achievement and Economic Growth LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: 98.XX.USA.96 S ISBN: 0198296576 PAGES: 512pp. PRICE: $32.00 DESCRIPTION: Development with a Human Face examines the successful health and educational advances of 10 developing countries whose social achievements outpaced the majority of other developing countries - many of their social indicators being comparable with those of industrialized nations. The book provides valuable guidance to policy makers in developing countries seeking to duplicate these successful social policies. TITLE: Case Concerning Border and Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v. Honduras) SERIES: ICJ Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents VOLUME: Vol.II LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/691 ISBN: 9210707567 PAGES: 500pp. PRICE: $42.00 TITLE: Case Concerning Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) Order of 8 December 1998 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 1998 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/715 ISBN: 9210707842 PAGES: 8pp. PRICE: $5.00 TITLE: Case Concerning Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Lybian Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom) Order of 17 December 1998 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 1998 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/717 ISBN: 9210707869 PAGES: 8pp. PRICE: $5.00 TITLE: Case Concerning Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Lybian Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America) Order of 17 December 1998 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 1998 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/718 ISBN: 9210707877 PAGES: 8pp. PRICE: $5.00 TITLE: Request for interpretation of the Judgment of 11 June 1998 in the Case Concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Preliminary Objections (Nigeria v. Cameroon) Judgment of 25 March 1999 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 1999 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/723 ISBN: 9210707923 PAGES: 64pp. PRICE: $6.50 TITLE: Difference Relating to Inmunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights. Advisory Opinion of 29 April 1999 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 1999 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/726 ISBN: 9210707931 PAGES: 128pp. PRICE: $11.50 TITLE: Case Concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of America) SERIES: ICJ Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/770 ISBN: 9210708431 PAGES: 216pp. PRICE: $19.50 TITLE: Case Concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Yugoslavia) Order of 10 March 2000 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 2000 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/773 ISBN: 9210708474 PAGES: 8pp. PRICE: $5.00 TITLE: Case Concerning Maritime Delimitation Between Nicaragua and Honduras in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Honduras) Order of 21 March 2000 SERIES: ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders YEAR: 2000 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: ICJ/774 ISBN: 9210708482 PAGES: 8pp. PRICE: $5.00 TITLE: Report of the Commission on Human Rights (20 March-28 April 2000) YEAR: 2000 VOLUME: 56th Sess. No.: Supp.3 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: E/OR SYMBOL: E/2000/23 E/CN.4/2000/167 PAGES: 576pp. PRICE: $54.00 TITLE: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1999 YEAR: 55th Sess. No.: Supp.12 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GA/OR SYMBOL: A/55/12 PAGES: 44pp. PRICE: $6.00 TITLE: Report of the Human Rights Committee YEAR: 55th Sess. VOLUME: I No.: Supp.40 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GA/OR SYMBOL: A/55/40 VOL.I PAGES: 152pp. PRICE: $17.00 TITLE: Report of the Human Rights Committee YEAR: 55th Sess. VOLUME: II No.: Supp.40 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GA/OR SYMBOL: A/55/40 VOL.II PAGES: 276pp. PRICE: $28.50 TITLE: Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Biennium Ended 31 December 1999 and Report of the Board of Auditors for the United Nations Children's Fund YEAR: 55th Sess. No.: Supp.5B LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GA/OR SYMBOL: A/55/5/ADD.2 PAGES: 104pp. PRICE: $12.00 TITLE: Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Biennium Ended 31 December 1999 and Report of the Board of Auditor s for the Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme YEAR: 55th Sess. No.: Supp.5I LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GA/OR SYMBOL: A/55/5/ADD.9 PAGES: 60pp. PRICE: $7.50 TITLE: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board YEAR: 55th Sess. No.: Supp.9 LANGUAGE: E. SALES #: GA/OR SYMBOL: A/55/9 PAGES: 132pp. PRICE: $15.50 The following titles are also available on a subscription basis:(See our List of Periodicals for subscription details.)TITLE: Schedule of Daily Subsistence Allowance Rates YEAR: October 2000 LANGUAGE: B. SALES #: SUBSC. PAGES: 48pp. PRICE: $20.00 DESCRIPTION: Daily Subsistence Allowance Rates (DSAR) or per diem costs are determined by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) on the basis of the latest data on prices for single rooms at good commercial hotels and meal costs. Hotels and restaurants used are recommended by the responsible United Nations officials at various locations for more than 250 cities/towns in about 200 countries. Based on surveys and updated monthly, DSA rates are established in local currencies and the dollar equivalents are determined at the current United Nations official exchange rates. A subscription to this periodical includes access to DSAR On-line. The business traveller and organizations whose staff routinely undertake travel will find this an extremely important reference. TITLE: Population and Vital Statistics Report YEAR: October 2000 VOLUME: LII No.: 4 LANGUAGE: E. SYMBOL: ST/ESA/STAT/SER.A/215 PAGES: 24pp. PRICE: $15.00 DESCRIPTION:This quarterly journal, released in English, gives you estimates of world and regional populations as well as estimates for 218 countries. Information is derived from each country's latest population, national census and from nationally representative statistics on birth and mortality.
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