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Combating Global Climate Change by Combating Land Degradation: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya
(1995)
An International Workshop was held to consider land degradation in drylands and its management, particularly as it relates to carbon management as a means to combat global warming. Twenty specialists from nine countries ...
Review of Contaminants in Marine Mammals - Technical Report Number 2
(1991)
In this document, the known and suspected effects of various classes of contaminants on marine mammals are reviewed. The document then considers in more detail the evidence linking organochiorine contamination with ...
State of the Marine Environment in Antarctica - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 129
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1990)
The better understanding of the changing problems facing the marine environment is a continuing goal of UNEP's ocean programme, as it provides the necessary scientific background for shaping UNEP's policy towards the ...
Water Quality Monitoring, Assessment & Management: A Guide to the Modular GEMS/ Water Training Programme
(1996)
Due to the success of this programme and the high demands expressed by network participants, it was agreed by the GEMS/WATER Steering Committee to develop a comprehensive guide which compiles all training course opportunities ...
Water Resources Development and Vector-borne diseases in Kenya: Proceedings of a Seminar on Water Resources Development and Vector-Borne Diseases in Kenya
(1990)
At the end of the 1980s the troubled relationship between the biosphere of planet Earth and the man-driven process of economic development came to the foreground as the key topic in international discussions almost independent ...
Water Quality of World River Basins: Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) - UNEP Environment Library No. 14
(1995)
The Water Quality of World River Basins selectively summarizes data contributed by countries participating in the GEMS/WATER Programme over the period 1976-90. The book also includes information gathered from many other ...
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification 1996-1997
(1997)
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard was approved by the 28th World Health Assembly in 1975 and has since gained wide acceptance. When it was published in the WHO Chronicle, 22, 397-401 (1975), an ...
Workshop on the Practical Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Baltic Countries
(1994)
The workshop on the Practical Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in tine Baltic Countries, held in Tallinn from 16 - P October 1994. was an important step in facilitating the follow-up of the United ...
World Map of Present-Day Landscapes : An Explanatory Note
(1993)
The wall-chart World Map of Present-Day Landscapes is designed to raise awareness among policy-makers and decision-makers,
as well as among students, scholars and the environmentally concerned public at large, on the scope ...
The State of the World Environment 1991
(1991)
The world's population reached 5.3 billion in 1990 and is expected to grow by another one billion to reach 6.3 billion by 2000. About 93 per cent of this population growth will be in the developing countries. Although there ...