Backgrounders

SoE backgrounders provide the historic and scientific context for SoE themes. They will mainly be useful for users who are less familiar with a topic or who are reading about an issue for the first time.

The five backgrounders below were published in 2000:

• Human Settlement
• Atmosphere
• Land
• Water
• Biodiversity.

Note that links to SoE chapters in these backgrounders are to the 2000 report.