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Environmental Guidelines for Irrigation in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 2
(1982)
Since the dawn of civilization irrigation has played an important role in helping man satisfy the most basic of all his needs the need for food. However, the impact of irrigation projects is not exclusively beneficial, and ...
Environmental Guidelines for Handling Treatment and Disposal of Hazardous Wastes - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 18
(1990)
Concern regarding the handling, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes is growing, as is the need to develop appropriate hazardous waste management strategies. Questions are being asked about suitable actions and ...
Directory of Environmental Education Institutions, Programmes and Resource People in the Caribbean Region
(1985)
This directory is intended to assist in building foundations for continuing environmental education and public awareness programmes in the region, thus providing the support needed for the satisfactory implementation of ...
Environmental Guidelines for Farming Systems Research - UNEP Environemntal Management Guidelines No. 12
(1986)
Farming Systems Research (FSR) has increased in popularity recently both in academic circles and among administrators of national and international agricultural development programmes. In the expectation that FSR programmes ...
Environmental Guidelines for Agroforesry Projects - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 11
(1986)
There is no doubt that Agroforestry can be an environmentally sound and economically feasible means of developing and protecting marginal and ecologically fragile lartds. Agroforestry, however, is a highly com-plex and ...
Environmental Guidelines for Afforestation Projects - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 9
(1986)
The environmental operational guidelines in this series are presented in the belief that dynamics and change induced by development aims are not without environmental hazards and risks. It is necessary to identify such ...
Environmental Guidelines for Flood Plain Management - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 16
(1988)
Floods are a natural and recurring event that are only a problem when man competes with rivers for the use of the high water channels of rivers or flood plains. Flood-plain occupancy and use is based on the economic ...
Environmental Guidelines for Fish Farming - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 19
(1990)
These guidelines are intended to build awareness of the nature of the relationship between fish farming and the environment and the factors that determine that relationship. The booklet discusses how the culture system ...
Environmental Guidelines for Pesticide Use on Industrial Crops - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 1
(1982)
Pest control is directly related to two of man's most pressing problems: the provision of food and agricultural commodities for ever-expanding populations and the maintenance of health by the suppression of vectors of human ...
Environmental Guidelines for Pulp and Paper Industry: A Technical Review. UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 4
(1977)
The Pulp and Paper industry is one of the major industrial sectors agreed for examination. Consultations have been undertaken with experts nominated by Governments, industry and international governmental and nongovernmental ...