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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 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 Restoration and Rehabilitation of Land and Soils after Mining Activities - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 8
(1983)
These are general guidelines for the protection and reclamation of mining areas. They are applicable irrespective of global location and prevalent socio-economic relations.
Environmental Guidelines for Watershed Development - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines, No. 3
(1982)
Economic and development activities in watersheds can be manifold and the interactions between the physical, biologic and socio-economic factors very complex. Therefore, watershed management and development needs an ...
Emission Standards & Guidelines Information Clearinghouse (IE-ESGIC) Volume I: Textile Industry Effluent Discharge Standards
(1996)
Establishing environmental standards and guidelines for potentially polluting industrial wastes: liquid effluents, air emissions and solid wastes, is an important first step for countries concerned about regulating industrial ...