The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) global resourceinformation database

摘要

Since the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) wasestablished in 1972. The world has seen an ever increasing need fromdecision makers, resource managers, school children, media and thepublic for getting access to information about the state of the globalenvironment. To improve on this situation UNEP established the GlobalResource Information Database GRID in 1985. GRID's main objective is toprovide up-to-date, reliable and easily understandable environmentalinformation to decision makers and the public. GRID's main technologicaltools are geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing(RS). The paper describes the current status of GRID including data andinformation available. The future development strategy of GRID is alsopresented particularly as a response to the recommendations made at theRio conference regarding the needs for improved access to environmentalinformation