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Our Common Seas: Coasts in Crisis
(1990)
Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the ...
Surveillance of Drinking Water Quality in Rural Areas
(1991)
This book is based on concepts of water supply-related health risk assessment developed by the authors during the course of the Water Decade.These concepts would not have been worth publishing without the practical support ...
Towards Improved Policy Making for Natural Resources and Ecosystem Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results of a Consultation Meeting held at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry 2-6 October 1995
(1996)
This report documents the results of a workshop held at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Nairobi 2-6 October 1995 on Policies for sustain-able integrated ecosystem management. The workshop, ...
Training Course on Environmental Management in Industry: 4-25 August 1991, Tampere, Finland - Lecture notes
(1991)
Proceedings of training course on environmental management in industry
The World Environment 1972-1992: Two Decades of Challenge
(1992)
The World Environment 1972-1992 offers a look at the environment from three perspectives. Ten introductory chapters detail the range of environmental threats and examine how they have unfolded over the past two decades. ...
The Use of Economic Instruments in Carbon Dioxide Mitigation: A Developing Country Perspective - Environment and Trade 12
(1995)
This paper examines the use of economic instruments in the protection of the global environment (particularly, global warming caused by enhanced carbon dioxide emissions), examining the potential impact on trade and welfare, ...
The Present State of Environmental and Resource Accounting and its Potential Application in Developing Countries: Environmental Economics Series Paper No.1
(1992)
An essential step towards achieving sustainable development is through the sound and efficient management of natural resources. One way to achieve that, is by accounting for the depletion and degradation of natural resources.
Global Environment Monitoring System: The Potential Socio-Economic Effects of Climate Change in South-East Asia
(1992)
This report describes the results of a project funded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) over 1 988-1 991.
Trade and Sustainable Development - Environment and Trade 1
(1994)
Trade liberalization has been only a part of China's economic reforms, but liberalization, in addition to its direct benefits, has provided essential support for price rationalization, private sector development, openness ...
Trade related Environmental Measures in the Field of Safety in Biotechnology - Environment and Trade 14
(1997)
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how safety requirements in the field of biotechnology can sometimes take the form of trade measures when they create a restriction on trade to protect the environment and/or human ...