It is an 80 page final report detailing PNG's State on Environment, Environmental Policy, Legislative and Institutional Framework including EU and other Donor Cooperation agreements with PNG.
Discusses in detail the A SEAFRAME gauge, the sea level trend, the Variations in monthly mean sea level dominated by seasonal cycles and variations in monthly mean air and water temperatures are likewise affected by the 1997/1998 El Niño. It further discusses Manus Island and the tsunami that followed a magnitude Mw7.1 earthquake and underwater landslide on 17 July 1998 which caused numerous deaths and widespread devastation near Aitape on the northern mainland.
Its an 8 paged report on PNG's background, meterological network, PNG National Weather Service and Climate-related physical and social impacts of the 1997/98 El Nino episode.
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This report describes PNG's current situation and constraints with respect to the occurrence, uses and management of water resources in PNG. It proposes remedial measures aimed at ensuring the sustainable utilization of the available water resources in order to achieve human well being and maintain environmental integrity
This report was approved by the MDG National Steering Committee on September 2010. It was prepared by the Department of National Planning and Monitoring with support from the United Nations Development Programme in Papua New Guinea.
Assessing the Capacity of PNG to Implement the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
These notes describe the derivation of environmental domains, forest type/ domain combinations and species bioclimatic profile group distributions and their preparation for use as biodiversity surrogates for the TARGET program priority area analysis of D.Faith and C.Margules, CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology. The locations to be considered are the Resource Mapping Units (RMU's) from the PNGRIS database. TARGET requires these units be described in terms of their composition of each of the biodiversity surrogate attributes.
Consists of essays which began as presentations in a panel we co-chaired at the State of the Pacific conference at The Australian National University in 2014.
Discussion paper on Christianity, Masculinity and Gender Violence in Papua New Guinea
One of the chapters in Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain's book titled "Passage of Change: Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific" published by ANU Press. Found on pages 95-124 under the section heading SECTION 3: CUSTOMARY LAW of this book.
As an emergency medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders provides assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, neglect, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. This document consists of information on the medical and emotional needs of people who have survived family and sexual violence in PNG.
This article discusses the issue of plastic waste found in the ocean, and it was published in Science Magazine in February 2015.
The resolution is 1:500,000 but It was quite useful to this day and normally used for EP Assessment.
The Resolution is 1:100,000 and is still useful as legacy data. By now most of these forest have depleted to make way for development or by the effects global warming or sea level rise etc. An overlay of recent data over this data could show some interesting land use changes. Dr Phil Shearman's report is one step in the right direction.
In order to maintain marine and coastal ecosystem services, stakeholders an d decision-makers require spatial information to enable governance for sustainable development and management of natural resources and cultural heritage. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Resource Organisation (CSIRO) has developed a Marine and Coastal Values Framework that can be applied to natural resource, ecological and socio-cultural data to comprehensively value ecosystem features and cultural assets.