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Mineral Fertilizer Use and the Environment
(1998)
This document aims to present a balanced view of, on the one hand, the benefits of using mineral fertilizers and on the other hand the environmental risks involved. This review presents the evidence supporting the view ...
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 ...
Review of the Protected Areas System in Oceania
(1986)
The area covered by this review is that served by the South Pacific Commission with some minor additions. It is a region of a few larger and many tiny islands, with diverse and often unique species and ecosystems, scattered ...
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 ...
Tropical Forest Ecosystems: A State-of-Knowledge Report - Natural Resources Research XIV
(1978)
The joint action of Unesco and UNEP in preparing this state-of-knowledge Report on tropical forest ecosystems can be seen as a natural outcome of the desire to provide better guidance to research that is vital for the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...