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Cleaner Production: A Training Resource Package
(1996)
This is a trainers support package, not a reference book. It does not give a systematic, comprehensive overview (there is not enough room to do this); rather, it focuses on some selected aspects that are central to the ...
Children and the Environment - The State of the Environment 1990
(1990)
This report, issued as a joint contribution by UNEP and UNICEF, summarizes how children have been affected by environmental changes, and vice versa - and what can be done. Time is running out - but it is not yet too late.
Company Environmental Reporting : A Measure of the Progress of Business & Industry Towards Sustainable Development - Technical Report No. 24
(1994)
Corporate environment reports are quickly becoming a key channel for companies to communicate their environmental performance. Just as important, corporate environment reports are also becoming an effective tool to demonstrate ...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)
This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ...
Principles of Pesticide Toxicology
(1985)
This book discusses the goals and methods of modern pesticide toxicology and describes quantitative criteria needed to assess their toxicity and hazard to man. it emphasizes the cumulative effect of long-term exposure to ...
Computer Analysis for Environmental Biologists
(1987)
It is appropriate that a training course in computer based quantitative methods for environmental biologists be held at this time and it is especially appropriate that it be held in Singapore. For developing countries, ...
Combating Oil Pollution In The Kuwait Action Plan Region - United Nations Environment Programme Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 44
(1984)
This paper estimates that, during 1979, a total of about 144,000 metric tonnes of oil polluted the Kuwait Action Plan (KAP) Region and that, during the 10 years from 1980 to 1989, more than 1.5 million metric tonnes will ...
The Ozone Depletion Problem (An Example of Harm Commitment) - MARC Report Number 1
(1976)
The problem of ozone depletion is so interdisciplinary and complex that it is difficult for the non-expert to evaluate its urgency and severity. As a result, this potential threat cannot readily be compared with the myriad ...
Conservation, Science and Society Volume 1: Contributions to the First International Biosphere Reserve Congress, Minsk, Byelorussia/USSR, 26 September - 2 October 1983
(1983)
The First International Biosphere Reserve Congress was held in Minsk, Byelorussia/USSR on 26 September to 2 October 1983 and was jointly organised by Unesco and UNEP, in cooperation with FAO and IUCN, to review the experience ...