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Environmental and Safety Incidents concerning Tailings Dams at Mines: Results of a Survey for the Years 1980-1996
(1996)
This study aims to identify and to annotate major incidents involving mine tailings dams since 1980. Although mining in some form takes place in almost every country, it was not feasible, within the time constraints of the ...
Reference Methods and Materials: A Programme of Support for Regional and Global Marine Pollution Assessments
(1990)
This document describes a programme of comprehensive support for regional and global marine pollution assessments developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the International Atomic ...
Development of a New Method of Desertification Evaluation of the Sahel Region : The Land Use Component is Analized by Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques 1950-1990 - Final Report of Stage 1
(1993)
The projects objective is to develop a method allowing for an evaluation of a possible environmental degradation occurred in various Sahelian countries in the last decades. In case this method (after improvement as recommended ...
Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: 1994 Assessment
(1994)
The provisions in the Montreal Protocol and its amendments in London (1990) and Copenhagen (1992) have brought about a marked decrease in production and use of ozone depleting chemicals. However, the ozone layer is still ...
Resources Volume for Tertiary Level Education and Training in the Management of Toxic Chemicals and Hazardous Wastes
(1995)
The resource materials related to education and training the management of toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes which appear in this volume were prepared at a workshop convened by UNEP's Network for Environmental Training ...
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 ...
Action Plan for the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Marine and Coastal Areas of the East Asian Region
(1994)
During the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 5-16 June 1972), the Action Plan for the Human Environment, including the General Principles for Assessment and Control of ...
Evironmental Problems affecting the Coastal and Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP Technical Report 19
(1992)
The obejective of the present document is to provide an assessment of the main environmental problems affecting the marine and costal environment in the Wider Caribbean region, with some analysis of the emerging environmental ...
Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Response to Future Climatic Conditions in the Marine And Coastal Regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, and the Northeast Coast Of South America - CEP Technical Report 22
(1993)
This study emphasizes the marine and coastal environment and addresses the implications of climatic change in the Intra-Americas Sea and its environs. To facilitate understanding the technical terms of this report, a ...
WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Belize - CEP Technical Report 18
(1991)
The status of sea turtle stocks in Belize has been thoroughly reviewed in this document,
and many implementing measures designed to promote their recovery have been introduced.
Beyond serving as a national blueprint for ...