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| LIBYAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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0% |
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[117th of 141]
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI
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1.01 % of GNI
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[32nd of 179]
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Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI
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0.02 % of GNI
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[55th of 57]
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Areas under protection
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8 |
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[122nd of 146]
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Areas under protection (per capita)
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1.38744 per 1 million people |
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[95th of 146]
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Breeding birds threatened
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1.1% |
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[110th of 136]
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Carbon efficiency
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2.78 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[21st of 141]
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CFC consumption
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80,339.9 |
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[20th of 107]
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CFC consumption (per capita)
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13.9334 per 1,000 people |
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[11th of 107]
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CO2 Emissions
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42,274.9 |
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[57th of 178]
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CO2 Emissions (per capita)
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7.33176 per 1,000 people |
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[41st of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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50,179.44 kt
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[54th of 195]
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CO2 emissions > kt (per capita)
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8.915 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[37th of 196]
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Current issues
desertification; limited natural fresh water resources; the Great Manmade River Project, the largest water development scheme in the world, is being built to bring water from large aquifers under the Sahara to coastal cities |
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Ecological footprint
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4.36 |
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[39th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0% |
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[132nd of 141]
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Fertiliser consumption
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277.13 hundred grams/hectare |
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[95th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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0.12 % of land area
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[193rd of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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2,170 km²
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[151st of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km (per capita)
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370.721 km²
per 1,000 people |
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[170th of 195]
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Freshwater withdrawal
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4.27 |
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[51st of 124]
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Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural
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83% |
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[45th of 124]
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Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic
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14% |
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[66th of 124]
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Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial
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3% |
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[83rd of 124]
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Groundwater withdrawals
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734.9 |
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[2nd of 188]
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International agreements > Party to
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands |
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International agreements > Signed but not ratified
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Law of the Sea |
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Known breeding bird species
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76 |
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[142nd of 146]
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Known breeding bird species (per capita)
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13.1807 per 1 million people |
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[91st of 146]
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Known mammal species
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76 |
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[115th of 145]
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Known mammal species (per capita)
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13.1807 per 1 million people |
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[64th of 145]
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Marine areas under protection
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3 |
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[66th of 95]
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Marine areas under protection (per capita)
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0.520291 per 1 million people |
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[46th of 95]
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Marine fish catch
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32,450 tons |
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[72nd of 141]
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Marine fish catch (per capita)
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5.62782 tons per 1,000 people |
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[59th of 141]
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Non-wildness
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0.12% |
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[133rd of 141]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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6.34 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[1st of 141]
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Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions > kg per day
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3,531.99 kg/day
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[92nd of 115]
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Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions > kg per day per worker
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0.21 kg per day per worker
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[37th of 115]
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PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter
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98.1 mcg/m³
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[19th of 185]
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Protected area
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0.1 |
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[145th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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3,220 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[16th of 141]
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SO2 exports
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3,087.65 hundred metric tons |
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[14th of 141]
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Threatened species
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16 |
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[112nd of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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11 |
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[76th of 160]
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Total renewable water resources
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0.6 cu km |
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[26th of 31]
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Urban NO2 concentration
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46.57 micrograms/m3 |
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[81st of 141]
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Urban SO2 concentration
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63.66 micrograms/m3 |
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[52nd of 141]
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Water > Availability
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0.6 thousand cubic metres |
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[118th of 141]
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration
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7.58 mls/litre |
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[77th of 141]
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Water > Phosphorus concentration
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0.47 mls/litre |
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[40th of 141]
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Water > Salinisation
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1,858.24 |
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[16th of 141]
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Water > Severe water stress
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83.7 |
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[19th of 140]
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Water > Suspended solids
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6.32 mls/litre |
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[31st of 141]
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Water pollution, chemical industry > % of total BOD emissions
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10.96 %
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[11th of 114]
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Water pollution, clay and glass industry > % of total BOD emissions
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0.69 %
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[4th of 112]
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Water pollution, food industry > % of total BOD emissions
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77.04 %
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[15th of 114]
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Water pollution, paper and pulp industry > % of total BOD emissions
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1.43 %
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[106th of 111]
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Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions
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9.58 %
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[68th of 114]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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596.01 %
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[1st of 114]
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Wildness
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89.9% |
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[1st of 141]
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SOURCES: Stockholm Environment Institute at York, Acidification in Developing Countries: Ecosystem Sensitivity and the Critical Loads Approach at the Global scale, 2000 via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; 2000 IUCN Red List, and World Resources Institute,World Resources 2000-2001, Washington, DC: WRI, 2000. Original sources: World Conservation Monitoring Center, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; UNEP, Production and Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances, 1986-1998, October 1999. via ciesin.org; 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 Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org; ; FAOSTAT on-line database; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the last wild places on the earth's surface. Accessed via ciesin.org; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Jacaranda Atlas; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, RAINS-ASIA and Co-operative Programme formonitoring and evaluation of the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe (EMEP) via ciesin.org; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998-99; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2000; WHO,Air Management Information System-AMIS 2.0, 1998; and Global Urban Observatory, Citibase, 1999. via ciesin.org; 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; 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; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 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:
Libya, Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma, libyan arab jamahiriya, the libyan arab jamahiriya
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