Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern - Chapter 1

United Nations Environment Programme

Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern - Chapter 1

dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organization	Science Division
dc.contributor.other	Kolodziejczyk, Bartlomiej
dc.contributor.other	Kofler, Natalie
dc.contributor.other	Araya, Marianela
dc.contributor.other	Bull, James
dc.contributor.other	Champer, Jackson
dc.contributor.other	Liu, Chen
dc.contributor.other	Yuthavong, Yongyuth
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-01T11:19:31Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-01T11:19:31Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description	The world is facing unprecedented challenges to a healthy and sustainable future. Habitat destruction, invasive species, and overexploitation are contributing to immense biodiversity loss. Unsustainable, extractive industry practices further burden the environment, and by extension, human welfare. Vector-borne infectious diseases pose a major threat to global health. Rapid climate change is likely to expand the geographical range of tropical diseases and further stress already taxed species and ecosystems. A number of approaches devised to meet these challenges – some proposed and others already implemented – share a common strategy. That is, they depend upon the genetic manipulation of living organisms to acquire new functions that otherwise do not exist in nature, in order to serve human needs.	en
dc.description.uri	https://www.unep.org/resources/frontiers-201819-emerging-issues-environmental-concern
dc.format	pdf
dc.identifier.isbn	978-92-807-3737-0
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27544
dc.language	English
dc.page.number	23 pages
dc.relation.ispartof	Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
dc.rights.accessLevel	Public
dc.subject	synthetic biology
dc.subject	biotechnology
dc.subject	genetic
dc.subject	biological diversity
dc.subject.sdg	SDG 13 - Climate Action
dc.subject.sdg	SDG 15 - Life on Land
dc.title	Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern - Chapter 1	en
dc.title.alternative	合成生物学：重新设计整合环境	zh
dc.title.alternative	Biologie synthétique: reconfigurer l’environnement	fr
dc.title.alternative	Синтетическая биология: реконструирование окружающей среды	ru
dc.title.alternative	Biología sintética: rediseñar el medio ambiente	es
dc.type	Technical report
wd.identifier.sdgio	http://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000047
wd.identifier.sdgio	http://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000049