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Appropriate Technology for Sewage Pollution Control in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP Technical Report 40
(1998)
This report is part of an effort to assist the Governments in developing the annex on domestic wastewater. The purpose of the annex is to identify the most appropriate wastewater treatment technologies and water quality ...
Seagrasses of East Asia: Environmental And Management Perspectives - RCU/EAS Technical Report Series No.6
(1995)
Seagrasses are the only group of submerged flowering plants in tropical and temperate marine environment. Thriving mostly in shallow-water coastal habitats, they are adapted to live submerged in saline medium, with an ...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Voluntary Programmes
(1997)
The United Nations estimates that total global energy consumption in the agri-cultural, buildings, industrial, and trans-portation sectors together could be reduced by 35 per cent by the year 2020 through the adoption of ...
Reefs at Risk: Coral Reefs, Human Use and Global Climate Change - A Programme of Action
(1993)
For once, the popular mythology contains some truth. Coral reefs can be likened to tropical forests in certain important ways. Both reefs and jungles are biologically diverse in comparison with other ecosystems. Reefs are ...
Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics : Summary Record - Environmental Economics Series Paper No.4
(1992-02)
The Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics was sponsored by UNEP in order to solicit expert advice on how the discipline of economics can assist UNEP better fulfil its catalytic, coordinating, consensus-building ...
Contaminant Monitoring Programmes Using Marine Organisms: Quality Assurance and Good Laboratory Practice - Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 57
(1990)
The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by UNEP in 1974. Since then the Governing Council of UNEP has repeatedly endorsed a regional approach to the control of marine pollution and the management of marine and coastal ...
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, ...
Environmental Impact of Large-Scale Mining in Papua New Guinea: Mining Residue Disposal by the Ok Tedi Copper-Gold Mine
(1995)
The Ok Tedi copper-gold mine, located in the eastern part of the central mountain range of New Guinea, discharges daily approximately 80,000 tons of ore processing residues and a similar volume of waste rock and overburden ...
Environmental Impact Assessment: Issues, Trends and Practice
(1996)
The main objective of the EIA: 155ue5, Trends and Practice document is to enhance the capacity of countries, particularly developing countries and countries in transition to market economies, to devise suitable country ...
Environmental Impacts of Structural Adjustment Programmes: Synthesis and Recommendations
(1996)
The major question explored in this paper is: "What are the environmental effects of stabilization and structural adjustment programmes?" Implicit in this question is a desire for policy makers and advisors to provide the ...