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Global Biodiversity Strategy: A Policy-makers' Guide
(1992)
The Global Biodiversity Strategy was developed through a process of research and consultation beginning in 1989 and involving six consultations, six workshops, and more than 500 individuals. This Policy-makers' Guide to ...
Report of IUCN Workshop on Marine Mammal/Fishery Interactions
(1981)
Interactions between various species of marine mammals and fisheries are geographically widespread and of many different kinds. They give rise to a variety of conflicts of interests which appear to have increased in recent ...
Report of the ACMRR/IABO Working Party Biological Effects of Pollutants and Report of the ACMRR/IABO Expert Consultation on Bioassays with Aquatic Organisms in relation to Pollution Problems
(1976)
Report of the working party on biological effects of pollutants
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Fields - Environmental Health Criteria 35
(1984)
This document comprises a review of data on the effects of ELF fields, predominantly ELF electric fields at 50 and 60 Hz, on biological systems pertinent to the evaluation of health risks for man. The purpose of the document ...
Methylene Chloride - Environmental Health Criteria 32
(1984)
The document focuses on describing and evaluating the risks of methylene chloride for human health and the environment.
Methylene chloride (dichloromethane) is widely used as a multi-purpose solvent and paint remover. ...
Epichlorohydrin - Environmental Health Criteria 33
(1984)
The document focuses on describing and evaluating the risks of epichlorohydrin for human health and the environment. Epichlorohydrin is a highly reactive and flammable chemical. It is used as an intermediate in the production ...
Chlordane - Environmental Health Criteria 34
(1984)
Chlordane is a viscous, light yellow to amber-coloured liquid. Technical chlordane is a mixture of at least 26 different components and up to 14 distinct chromatographic components have been described. Its main components ...
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 ...
Government Strategies and Policies for Cleaner Production
(1994)
The purpose of this report is to explain to leaders in government and industry that cleaner production is likely to lead to economic benefits as well as environmental ones, that there is now an important window of opportunity ...
Aquatic (Marine and Freshwater) Biotoxins - Environmental Health Criteria 37
(1984)
This document deals with outbreaks of certain human diseases associated with human exposure to compounds produced by algae. Predators feeding on the algae become contaminated by these compounds which, in this way, enter ...