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The State of the Environment 1987
(Butterworths, 1987)
This book provides an analysis of the state of the environment as viewed by the United Nations organization responsible for the safety and better management of the environment at the global level. It is not meant to be an ...
Colonizacion de los Territorios Aridos y Lucha Contra la Desertificacion: Enfoque Integral
(1987)
La catáslrofe, vinculada con la primera fase de Ia sequia en la region de Sahel-Sudán en los años 1968-1973, impulsó a Ia comunidad mundial a examinar el estado de los territorios âridos en el mundo entero y elaborar medidas ...
Uganda Case Study: A Sampler Atlas of Environmental Resource Datasets within GRID - GRID Case Study Series No.1
(1987)
Data entry, modeling and graphical output for the Uganda case study have been carried out with the ARC/INFO Geographic Information System on a PRIME minicomputer. Most of the basic datasets were digitized from the Atlas ...
Plan of Action to Combat Desertification in Syria
(1987)
The Plan of Action to Combat Desertification in Syria highlights the gravity of the desertification problems encountered in the various Syrian environmental regions, notably the soil erosion in coastal ranges, the misuse ...
Procedures and Methods for Integrated Global Background Monitoring of Environmental Pollution
(1987)
The aim of the present paper is to formulate the basic principles of integrated background monitoring, and to describe procedures and methods of integrated background monitoring with respect to observation of background ...
The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)
Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland. But the main purpose of this report was simply to establish ...
A Geographical Information System and Satellite Remote Sensing to Plan for Aquaculture Development: A FAO - UNEP/GRID Cooperative Study in Costa Rica - FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 287
(1987)
Planning for aquaculture development has been hindered by a lack of comprehensive information on the land, water, human and economic resources available at national, subnational,and ecosystem levels of organization.
Pesticides in the Aquatic Environment: A Global Assessment of Use and Effects - MARC Report Number 39
(1987)
This review investigates the deliberate use of pesticides in global freshwater environments and highlights those areas where pesticides are used in large quantities. The potential risk to the aquatic ecosystems is assessed ...
Towards a Prosperous Planet: UNEP's Clearing house
(1987)
UNEP's Clearing-house, one of our youngest programmes, expands our roles of 'catalysis and co-ordination" in the field of technical co-operation. The Clearing-house acts as a benevolent broker, an impartial friend and ...
Directives de Londres applicables à l'échange de renseignements sur les produits chimiques quid font l'objet du commerce international: (Decision 14/27 du Conseil d'administration du PNUE en date du 17 juin 1987) - Droit de l'environnement: Lignes directrices et principes 10
(1987)
Le présent recueil de directives est adressé aux gouvernements afin de les aider à accroître les conditions de sécurité dans le domaine chimique dans tous les pays grâce à l'échange d'informations relatives aux produits ...