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The European environment - State and outlook 2005
EEA, 2005.
ISBN: 92-9167-776-0.
This is the third state and outlook report on the European environment produced by EEA since 1994. Looking back, the last report, published in 1999 concluded that, despite 25 years of Community environmental policy, environmental quality in the European Union (EU) was mixed and that the unsustainable development of some key economic sectors was the major barrier to further improvements.

EEA Signals 2004
A European Environment Agency update on selected issues
EEA, 2004.
ISBN: 92-9167-669-1.
The 2004 edition of the EEA's annual survey of environmental trends in its member countries covers aspects of agriculture, water pollution, nature protection, packaging waste, energy, transport, air pollution and climate change. It also provides an environmental perspective on the economic and social situation in Europe, including trends in demography and resource use, in the context of progress towards sustainability.

High nature value farmland
Characteristics, trends and policy challenges
EEA, 2004.
ISBN: 92-9167-664-0.
Farmland supports many habitats and species of European conservation concern. In 2003, Europe's environment ministers agreed to identify all farmland areas with high nature value and take conservation measures. This report shows that these areas cover roughly 15-25 % of the European countryside and suffer from land abandonment and intensification. Current policy measures appear insufficient to prevent further biodiversity decline.

Europe's Environment: The Third Assessment
EEA, 2003. Environmental assessment report No 10.
ISBN: 92-9167-574-1.
This is the third pan-European state of the environment report produced by the EEA. It was prepared for the 'Environment for Europe' Ministerial Conference being held under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Kiev, Ukraine on 21-23 May 2003.
Previous issues (1998, 1995).

Environmental Signals 2002 - Benchmarking the millennium
EEA, 2002. Environmental assessment report No 9. 149p.
ISBN: 92-9167-469-9

Environment in the European Union at the Turn of the Century
EEA, 1999. 446p.
ISBN: 92-9157-202-0.
Report on the state of the european environment.

Technical workshops on Innovative techniques and techonologies for contaminated mine waters assessment, management and remediation
March 26 – 29, 2007; Brestovacka Spa, Bor, Serbia. Workshop summary report. ENVSEC, 2007.

The immediate outcome of the workshop and site visit package was to provisionally identify and
design a possible remediation solution for at least one site per country visited to enable well defined
and more concrete follow up work at three to five mining sites in the Western Balkans countries.

Environment and Security: Transforming risks into cooperation "Central Asia - Ferghana / Osh / Khujamd area"
UNEP, UNDP, OSCE, NATO, 2005.
ISBN: 82-7701-035-4
Also available in russian.
This assessment has been produced upon the request of the countries of the Ferghana Valley – Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – and has widely benefited from their inputs. It shows how the ‘Environment and Security’ initiative has helped identify both environmental threats to regional security and opportunities for cross-border dialogue.

Environment and Security: Transforming Risks into Cooperation "The Case of the Southern Caucasus”
UNDP/ UNEP/OSCE, 2004.
ISBN: 82-7701-027-3.
This report—available in both Russian and English—presents through maps and graphics the linkages between environmental stress, potential social tension and areas of particular vulnerability in the Southern Caucasus, as identified by stakeholders from the countries.

Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation "The Case of Central Asia and South Eastern Europe"
UNDP/ UNEP/OSCE, 2003.
ISBN: 82-7701-023-0.
This report focuses on the environmental stress affecting security in two case regions, Central Asia and South Eastern Europe. It provides maps with an overview on major environmental risks to human development and security.

The Condition of Forests in Europe 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
UNECE/European Comission, 2002.
This report describes the actual damage observed on trees and forests, the report also presents computer model calculations of future risks.

European Forest Sector Outlook Study
UNECE/FAO, 2005. ISSN 1020 2269.
he European Forest Sector Outlook Study presents long term trends for supply and demand of forest products (roundwood, sawnwood, panels, pulp, paper, non-wood products) and services and outlook to 2020, in western and eastern Europe and four major CIS countries, including Russia. It reviews trends for the forest resource, trade, markets and recycling. It stresses the future shift in the balance of the sector to the east, and the importance of cross-sectoral issues, notably consequences for the forest sector of energy, environment and trade policies, which are examined in some detail.

Assessment of Progress in Sustainable Developmet since Rio 1992
for Member States of the United Nations Economic Comission for Europe
UNECE and UNEP/ROE secretariats, 2001.

Reducing Environment & Security Risks from Mining in South Eastern Europe
UNEP, 2004.
Desk-assessment study for the Environment and Security Initiative Project, November 2004.
This study addressed mining activities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo (Territory under UN interim administration), the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro, and has identified and catalogued a large number of mineral resources related sites that can be of high hazard.

Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza River Basin
UNEP, 2004.
The report notes that the Tsiza river basin ecosystem is regenerating itself after the cyanide accident, with wildlife largely recovering. But, it says more concerted action is needed to address environmental threats or “insecurities”, and recommends an “Integrated Sustainable Development Strategy” for the entire catchment area of the river Tisza, which includes Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia and Montenegro.

Freshwater in Europe - Facts, Figures and Maps
UNEP/DEWA, 2004.
UNEP/DEWA~Europe capitalised on its activities and data available on freshwater for the pan-European region and produced a new report: “Freshwater in Europe - Facts, Figures and Maps”. This publication is an overview, through a set of graphics, maps and other illustrations, on the state of Freshwater in Europe and Central Asia. The review has been compiled in support of UNEP’s reporting work on freshwater.

Caucasus Environment Outlook 2002
UNEP, 2002.
ISBN - 99928-803-2-5.

Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances
Europe
UNEP/CHEMICALS, 2003. 500p.
GE.03-00151.

Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances
Mediterranean
UNEP/CHEMICALS, 2003. 500p.
GE.03-00149.

Water and Health in Europe
WHO, 2002. WHO Regional Publications. European Series No 93.
Bartram, J., Thyssen, N., Gowers, A., Pond, K., Lack, T.
A Joint Report from the European Environment Agency and the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
ISBN: 92 890 1360 5.

Climate Change and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion:
Early Effects on our Health in Europe
WHO, 2000. WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No. 88
ISBN: 92 890 1355 9.
A balanced assessment, based on currently available scientific knowledge, of the effects that climate change may have on the environment in Europe and the health of its populations.

Freshwater and Tourism in the Mediterranean
WWF, 2004.
The expansion of the tourism industry in the Mediterranean is destroying valuable wetlands and contributing to the depletion of the water resources that local communities and the tourism industry depend on.