GEO Yearbook 2006: An overview of our changing environment

The GEO Year Book 2006 is the third annual survey of the changing global environment produced by the United Nations Environment Programme, in collaboration with many world experts in environmental research and action. The Year Book includes global and regional overviews. It highlights the linkages between environmental well-being, vulnerability and poverty records recent findings on the value of ecosystem services and describes new research findings on polar and ocean changes that may prove a turning point in the urgency of our awareness and response to global change.