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The State of the Environment in the South Pacific - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 31
(1983)
The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme has collected enough information through country reports and topic reviews to make a summary overview of the state of the environment in the South Pacific region. It is thus ...
Problems And Prospects Desertification of Desertification Control in the ESCAP Region
(1983)
Desertification has always been one of the major environmental problems of the developing countries in Asia as well as Australia. To focus world attention on this serious problem, the United Nations Conference on Desertification ...
The State of the Environment 1983: Selected Topics
(1983)
The present state of the environment report deals with three topics of international significance selected by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its tenth session: two contemporary issues ...
Styrene - Environmental Health Criteria 26
(1983)
Styrene (ethenylbenzene) is a commercially important chemical used in the production of polymers, copolymers, and reinforced plastics. Exposure mainly occurs in industries and operations using styrene, and industrial sources ...
Acrylonitrile - Environmental Health Criteria 28
(1983)
Acrylonitrile is a colourless, volatile, chemically reactive liquid; it does not occur as a natural product. The monomer is used world-wide, on a large scale, in the manufacture of polymers, fibres, and rubbers and as a ...
Guidelines on Studies in Environmental Epidemiology - Environmental Health Criteria 27
(1983)
The present monograph should serve as a useful guide to the conduct of epidemiological studies on the effects of non—biological agents on the health of human communities. An epidemiological investigation would involve not ...
Hygienic and Toxicological Criteria of Harmfulness in Evaluating Hazards of Chemical Compounds
(1983)
This book is intended for toxicologists, hygienists and all those responsible for evaluation and control of harmful effects of chemicals to human health and Urn environment. It could also be useful in postgraduate training ...
Selected Radionuclides - Environmental Health Criteria 25
(1983)
In this report the more general considerations of environmental behaviour of several radionuclides are discussed, including sources, transport to man and dosimetry. The radionuclides discussed are those most frequently ...
Employers’ Organisations and the Working Environment
(1983)
The second item on the agenda of the ILO/UNEP Regional Meeting of Employers' Organisations on Environment and Development in Africa is devoted to the working environment. The present document is intended to serve as ...
Kuwait Regional Convention for Co-operation on the Protection of the Marine Environment from Pollution: Protocol Concerning Regional Co-operation in Combating Pollution by Oil and other Harmful Substances in Cases of Emergency
(1983)
This publication contains the texts of the two legal agreements that have been adopted for the protection and development of the marine environment and coastal areas of the Kuwait Action Plan Region. In considering the ...