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Guidelines for Establishing or Strengthening National Food Contamination Monitoring Programmes
(1979)
These guidelines are intended to assist national authorities wishing to establish or strengthen food contamination monitoring programmes as part of their overall food safety, food control and resource management activities. ...
Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
(2008)
The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ...
Mine Rehabilitation for Environment and Health Protection - A Training Manual
(1998)
This manual has been prepared jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme, Industry and Environment (UNEP JE) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). It complements an earlier trainer's package on Environmental ...
Multilevel Course on the Safe Use of Pesticides and on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pesticide Poisoning
(1994)
This course is presented to try to meet the need for widescale training in the safe and effective use of pesticides.
PART I opens by outlining the structure of the course. It discusses the techniques that can be used in ...
Safety and Health in the Use of Chemicals at Work - A Training Manual
(1993)
The International Labour Conference adopted, in June 1990, the Chemicals Convention (No. 170), and Recommendation (No. 177), with a view to reducing the incidence of chemically induced illness and injuries at work.
Health & Environment: Tools for Effective Decision-Making: Review of Initial Findings
(2004)
In response to the urgent need for a more coherent and proactive policy agenda, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) joined forces at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable ...
Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure
(2008)
This “Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure” is intended to inform countries concerned about the potential health impacts of mercury pollution and, if necessary, to assist in identifying specific ...
Water Pollution Control - A Guide to the Use of Water Quality Management Principles
(1997)
Water pollution control is clearly one of the most critical of those challenges. Without
urgent and properly directed action, developing countries face mounting problems of
disease, environmental degradation and economic ...