Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "CANCER"
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Arsenic - Environmental Health Criteria 18
(1981)Arsenic is a ubiquitous element with metalloid properties. Its chemistry is complex and there are many different compounds of both inorganic and organic arsenic. In nature, it is widely distributed in a number of minerals, ... -
Assessing the Risk of Genetic Damage
(1992)The major objective of the study was to develop a series of principles and recommendations that may serve as the basis for assessing the genotoxic hazards of environmental agents. It was considered that such principles and ... -
Climate Change and Human Health: An Assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme
(1996)This book covers the subject of climate change to the full extent possible, given current scientific knowledge. It is intended to assist and promote further international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding ... -
Electricity and the Environment: Proceedings of a Senior Expert Symposium on Electricity and the Environment
(1991)The Senior Expert Symposium on Electricity and the Environment was held from 13 to 17 May 1991, in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of the Symposium was to provide a comprehensive assessment of the environmental and health ... -
Electromagnetic Fields (300 Hz to 300 GHz) - Environmental Health Criteria 137
(1993)This monograph is concerned with the health effects of electromagnetic fields in the frequency range of 300 Hz-300 GHz, which includes the radiofrequency (RF) range (100 kHz-300 GHz) covered in the earlier publication (WHO, ... -
Experimental Aflatoxic Cancerogenesis and Undernutrition Ultrastructural and Pathomorphological Basis
(1985)Knowledge about aflatoxine has developed during an era of increasing awareness of the importance of natural as well as man-made chemicals as environmental contaminants -
Guidelines on Studies in Environmental Epidemiology - Environmental Health Criteria 27
(1983)The present monograph should serve as a useful guide to the conduct of epidemiological studies on the effects of non—biological agents on the health of human communities. An epidemiological investigation would involve not ... -
The Impact of Ozone-Layer Depletion - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 7
(1992)The ozone layer that has shielded the Earth from damaging ultraviolet radiation since life began is diminishing. This is caused by the use we have made, over the past 60 years, of the ozone layer depleting substances, ... -
IPCS Mode of Action Framework Part 1: IPCS Framework for Analysing the Relevance of a Cancer Mode of Action for Humans and Case Studies. Part 2: IPCS Framework for Analysing the Relevance of a Non-Cancer Mode of Action for Humans
(2007)The IPCS Harmonization Project goal is to improve chemical risk assessment globally, through the pursuit of common principles and approaches, and, hence, strengthen national and international management practices that ... -
Le Protocole de Montréal et la Santé Humaine: Comment une action mondiale nous protège des ravages du rayonnement ultraviolet
(2016)Ce livret, tout en présentant un condensé des connaissances actuelles sur les effets des variations du rayonnement UV sur la santé humaine, offre aussi un panorama de ce que le monde aurait pu être si nous n’étions pas ... -
The Ozone Depletion Problem (An Example of Harm Commitment) - MARC Report Number 1
(1976)The problem of ozone depletion is so interdisciplinary and complex that it is difficult for the non-expert to evaluate its urgency and severity. As a result, this potential threat cannot readily be compared with the myriad ... -
Radiation: Doses, Effects, Risks - 2nd Edition
(1991)Few scientific issues arouse so much public controversy as the effects of radiation. Scarcely a week seems to go by in developed countries without some expression of public feeling— and, as some developing Countries advance ... -
The State of the Environment 1987
(Butterworths, 1987)This book provides an analysis of the state of the environment as viewed by the United Nations organization responsible for the safety and better management of the environment at the global level. It is not meant to be an ... -
The State of the Environment: Selected Topics - 1977
(1977)This is the first of the annual state of the environment reports which, instead of covering a broad range of environmental issues, focuses on a limited number of environmental problems of international importance - in this ... -
Toluene Diisocyanates - Environmental Health Criteria 75
(1987)Toluene diisocyanates (TDIs) are synthetic organic chemicals of low relative molecular mass (174.17). They are colourless to pale yellow liquids, at room temperature, with a distinct pungent odour detectable around 0.7 ... -
Ultraviolet Radiation - Environmental Health Criteria 14
(1979)Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) occurs from both natural and artificial sources. The sun is the principal natural source. The known effects of UVR on man may be beneficial or detrimental, depending on a number of ...