(a) the evaluation of the weakness of the present atlas

The atlas will be published in book form in 2006.

Taking into consideration the overall criticism of the present atlas, and also the suggestions of experts in the field of assessment and mapping for drought and desertification, there is a definite need for revision and further development of the atlas.

The most famous of which is a little to the north.

The Middle Atlas Mountains consist mostly of a series of limestone plateaus.

The 334 page book, containing 271 satellite images, 215 ground photos and 66 maps, clearly documents scientific evidence of global environmental change caused through natural processes and human induced activities.

The Digital Universe Atlas has been built at the American Museum of Natural History over the past 12 years.

The atlas contains many maps that are politically sensitive, especially when it involves Tibet and Xinjiang.

Environmental changes in Africa's lakes, which in many cases can only be truly appreciated from space, are brought into sharp focus.

First and foremost, the target audience for the new atlas should be identified and the purposes of compilation should be determined.

The View from Fez shares tips on mountaineering in the High Atlas.

A smaller ad hoc team, the World Atlas Team (WAT) should be established within the frame of the GoE under the leadership of the coordinator of the work plan task.

It took him more than 30 years to complete the work, and the eight volume atlas was published from 1982 to 1988.

Intended for environmental policy makers, non governmental organizations, the private sector, academics, teachers and the public at large, the atlas uses powerful satellite and geographic information system technology tools to tell the story of environmental change.

The atlas warns about the crucial importance of Africa's lake ecosystems for poverty alleviation and meeting internationally agreed development goals by 2015.

The atlas has already become one of the best selling books produced by UNEP, with more than 1,500 copies sold by September 2005.

The atlas shows that, despite the dedicated efforts of many individuals and organizations, the great apes all fall into the endangered or critically endangered categories of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List.

There are some examples of non human primates that live outside of the tropics the mountain dwelling Japanese macaque lives in the north of Honshū where there is snow cover eight months of the year the Barbary macaque lives in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco.

According to the work plan of the GoE determined in the Hamburg meeting of GoE, 2002, one of its tasks is to determine the criteria on the basis of which the new atlas can be accomplished, and to prepare recommendations for the terms of reference for, and the development of, mapping the sensitivity of areas affected by drought and desertification.