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| BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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21 |
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[88th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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2.04 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[34th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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14,269.4 |
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[79th of 178]
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Current issues
air pollution from metallurgical plants; sites for disposing of urban waste are limited; water shortages and destruction of infrastructure because of the 1992-95 civil strife; deforestation |
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Ecological footprint
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1.29 |
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[95th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0% |
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[139th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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42.68 % of land area
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[58th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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21,850 km²
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[101st of 195]
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Known mammal species
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72 |
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[119th of 145]
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Marine fish catch
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0 tons |
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[138th of 141]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.16 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[107th of 141]
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Protected area
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0.5 |
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[132nd of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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1,780 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[34th of 141]
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Threatened species
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25 |
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[80th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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10 |
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[90th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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7.91 thousand cubic metres |
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[44th of 141]
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration
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6.15 mls/litre |
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[111st of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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0.16 tons/cubic km |
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[57th of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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5.79 %
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[7th of 114]
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Wildness
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0% |
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[137th of 141]
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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; World Development Indicators database; FAOSTAT on-line database; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Jacaranda Atlas; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water Quality Monitoring System, with data for an additional 29 countries from Prescott-Allen,R. The Well being of Nations, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosna i Hercegovina, bosnia & herzegovina, bosnia and h., bosnia and herzegowina, bosnia-hercegovina, bosnia-herzegovina
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