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Report of the FAO/UNEP/IBPCR Technical Conference on Crop Genetic Resources
(1981)
Report of the conference on crop genetic resourses
Directory of Coastal and Marine Environmental Institutions in the North-West Pacific Region - NOWPAP Publication No. 2
(1998)
The Governing Council of UNEP on its 15th Session (Decision 15/1 Strengthening the Role and Effectiveness of the United Nations Environment Programme, part VI.3) approved preparation of new action plans for seas not yet ...
Report of the FAO/UNEP Meeting on Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Selected Substances in Marine Organisms, Rovinj, Yugoslavia, 5-9 November 1984 - FAO Fisheries Report No. 334
(1984)
The toxicity of certain chemicals reaching the marine environment has aroused public concern which, in turn, has been translated by administrators in many countries into legislative measures designed to prevent marine ...
Phosphine and Selected Metal Phosphides - Environmental Health Criteria 73
(1988)
Phosphine, or hydrogen phosphide, is a colourless gas which is odourless when pure, but the technical product usually has a foul odour, described as "fishy or "garlicky", because of the presence of substituted phosphines ...
Aldrin and Dieldrin - Environmental Health Criteria 91
(1989)
Aldrin and dieldrin are the common names of insecticides containing 95% HHDN and 85% HEOD, respectively. Throughout this monograph the names aldrin and dieldrin are used, although concentrations determined in the different ...
Lead: Environmental Aspects - Environmental Health Criteria 85
(1989)
Lead is a bluish or silvery-grey soft metal. With the exception of the nitrate, the chlorate, and, to a much lesser degree, the chloride, the salts of lead are poorly soluble in water.This document, although based on a ...
Pentachlorophenol - Environmental Health Criteria 71
(1987)
Pure pentachlorophenol (PCP) consists of light tan to white, needlelike crystals and is relatively volatile. It is soluble in most organic solvents, but practically insoluble in water at the slightly acidic pH generated ...
Permethrin - Environmental Health Criteria 94
(1990)
Permethrin was first synthesized in 1973 and marketed in 1977 as a photostable pyrethroid. Approximately 600 tonnes per year of permethrin is at present used world-wide, mostly for agricultural purposes. It has a potential ...
Guidelines for Environmental Assessment of Development Projects
(1982)
The purpose of the Test Model is to make available to the policy and decision makers environmental information in a form they can readily use. It facilitates development decisions that are conducive to making resources ...
Directory of Experts and Institutions on Soils and Fertilizers in Africa
(1995)
The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) decided and recommended the establishment of Eight Regional Technical Cooperation Networks on environment and ecodevelopment in Africa during their meeting in ...