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Guidelines for Impact Assessment in the Western Indian Ocean Region
(2007-10-18)
The purpose of these guidelines is to:
- Highlight the issues of concern in the WIO region, especially how transboundary impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems could foreclose future livelihood and development options.
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Hazardous & Noxious Substances (HNS) Response Operation Guideline
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2009)
This regional guideline aims to give general recommendations and provide information needed for proper decision making when responding to accidents in the marine environment involving chemicals and dangerous goods. It shoud ...
Eutrophication Monitoring Guidelines by Remote Sensing for the NOWPAP Region
(NOWPAP Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (NOWPAP CEARAC), 2007)
These guidelines have been designed particularly for coastal managers in local government and professional researchers involved in translating satellite remote sensing into information and tools that are useful for the ...
Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
(2008)
The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ...
Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Mercury Releases: Pilot Draft - November 2005
(2005-11)
This Toolkit aims to assist countries that are developing their mercury inventory to estimate releases of mercury, and also leads them through the process of how to enhance and refine these inventories. The Toolkit’s goal ...
Guide for Reducing Major Uses and Releases of Mercury
(2006)
This document is intended to assist countries to identify sources of mercury exposure and to assess main methods of reducing mercury exposures and risks to their people.
World Atlas of Coral Reefs
(2001)
Coral reefs are one of the world's most spectacular ecosystem.
Interim Guidelines on the Hazardous Characteristic H12-Ecotoxic Basel Convention Series/SBC No. 2003/4
(2003)
The present document proposes criteria for the ecotoxicological hazard of wastes. It is an aim of the Basel Convention that the management and transboundary movement of hazardous waste are consistent with the protection ...
Training Manual for Customs Officers: Second Edition - Saving the Ozone Layer: Phasing Out Ozone Depleting Substances in Developing Countries
(2008)
This training manual provides the guidance and information needed to conduct training programmes for Customs offi cers in developing countries. It should be used together with the complementary “Country Handbook on ODS ...