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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 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 the Diesel Vehicle - UNEP Industry & Environment Guidelines Series
(1985)
Greater use of diesel vehicles in the transportation sector creates opportunities to solve certain environmental problems associated with motor vehicles, such as those arising from emissions of carbon monoxide and to a ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Motor Vehicle and its Use - UNEP Industry & Environment Guidelines Series, Volume 2
(1981)
The environmental aspects of the motor vehicle and its use were first brought under review by UNEP at the Seminar on the Motor Vehicle and the Environment, held in 1976. Material gathered in association with the Seminar ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Direct Reduction Route to Steel Making
(1983)
The electric arc furnace and the development of the mini-steel mill, along with direct reduction, has enabled countries to install for themselves steel making capacities for 60 to 70% of the capital cost required for an ...