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Economic Assessment of Forestry Project Impacts - FAO Forestry Paper 106
(1992)
By the end of the 80s the shift in emphasis in forestry development towards social and environmental concerns had added complexity to forestry sector and project work. but it had not diminished the importance of a solid ...
Assessing the Risk of Genetic Damage
(1992)
The major objective of the study was to develop a series of principles and recommendations that may serve as the basis for assessing the genotoxic hazards of environmental agents. It was considered that such principles and ...
Environmental Quality Criteria for Coastal Zones in the Wider Caribbean Region: a Compilation - CEP Technical Report No. 14
(1992)
The purpose of this document is to contribute to the process of development of an environmental quality criteria to scientifically address the ecological, cultural and socio-economic conditions of the Wider Caribbean region, ...
Climatic Change and the Mediterranean: Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climatic Change and Sea-level Rise in the Mediterranean Region
(1992)
This book deals with the present-day environmental and demographic, economic and sociological trends in the Mediterranean area with particular emphasis on the possible impact of climatic change and corresponding sea-level ...
Combating Desertification in the USSR: Problems and Experience
(Centre of International Projects, 1992)
The book discusses major natural and man-made factors contributing to desertification In arid regions of the USSR. Summarized is the experience gained in the USSR an controlling desertification in animal rangeland management ...
Glaciers and the Environment
(1992)
The aim of this publication is to make the knowledge we have gained about glaciers more widely known, and to emphasize the need to develop this knowledge. Glaciology holds one of the keys to our past. It may also hold many ...
Greenhouse Earth
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1992)
This book is an attempt to capture the messages in the reports from SCOPE and IPCC as well as some other information and in a way that is accessible to the non-expert reader. The ambition is also to provide the reader with ...
Hepatic Mixed Function Oxidase Induction in Fish as an Environmental Monitoring Technique - Reference Methods For Marine Pollution Studies No. 60
(1992)
This Reference Method was designed to provide the user with reliable techniques for the determination of certain specific biological effects of chemical contaminants. This is the first in a series of techniques which are ...
2-Nitropropane - Environmental Health Criteria 138
(1992)
2-Nitropropane (2-NP) is a colourless, oily liquid with a mild odour. It is flammable, only moderately volatile, and stable under ordinary conditions. It is only slightly soluble in water but miscible with many organic ...
Implications of Expected Climate Change in the Eastern African Region: An Overview - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 149
(1992)
This paper reviews the results of a series of papers prepared by members of the Task Team on Implications of Climate Changes in the Eastern African Region, in cooperation with the Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme Activity ...