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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.
The World Environment 1972 - 1982: A Report by The United Nations Environment Programme
(1982)
This volume reviews the state of knowledge about changes in the world environment since 1970. It concentrates on events known to have occurred. While the final section of each Chapter looks at the implications of what ...
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 ...
Photosynthesis in relation to Plant Production in Terrestrial Environments : Natural Resources and the Environment Series Volume 18
(1985)
This book presents the current state of the art on the subject of photosynthesis by initially describing in part one the various photosynthetic mechanisms in relation to plant productivity. Part two of the book deals with ...
Photosynthesis and Production in a Changing Environment : A Field and Laboratory Manual
(1993)
The origins of this book lie in a series of training courses sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (Project No. FP/6108-88-01 (2855); 'Environment changes and the productivity of tropical grasslands'), with ...
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
(1989)
In recent years, the amount of hazardous wastes shipped across national borders has increased substantially. As the generation of wastes in industrialized countries has increased dramatically in the past decades and disposal ...
The Basel Convention: A Global Solution for Controlling Hazardous Wastes
(1997)
The purpose of this booklet: The Basel Convention.- A Global Solution for Controlling Hazardous Wastes is to promote knowledge about the implementation of the Basel Convention. Furthermore one of the main functions of the ...