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UNEP/IOC Guidelines on Survey and Monitoring of Marine Litter
(2009)
The objective of this document is to develop standardized operational guidelines for marine litter survey and monitoring programmes so that litter levels on our beaches and within our seas and oceans can be estimated and ...
Judicial Training Materials on Environmental Law : Application of Environmental Law by national Courts and Tribunals
(2006)
UNEP’s Global Judges Programme was conceived in the context of strengthening the Rule of Law in the area of sustainable development. The Rule of Law comprises an intricately inter-linked chain of fundamental ideas including ...
Building an Environmental Management Information System (EMIS): Handbook with Toolkit
(2001)
EMIS stands for Environmental Management Information System. Such a system consists of formalised steps to capture information, as well as fixed procedures to retrieve this information. Generally speaking, the EMIS covers ...
Managing Urban Sewage: An Introductory Guide for Decision-makers - Newsletter and Technical Publications Freshwater Management Series No. 10
(2003)
This document is part of the IETC series of Introductory Guides for Decision-makers. These guides are intended to assist decision-makers at the local level in understanding the issues and making informed decisions for the ...
SCP Indicators for Developing Countries: A Guidance Framework
(2008)
This document has been developed to provide guidance to policymakers in developing countries on the development of indicators that measure progress towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production (SCP), a ...
National Capacity Self-Assessment Resource Kit
(2005)
The NCSA Resource Kit was developed to provide countries with a “tool box” of capacity development approaches, techniques and tools, based on international best practices and NCSA experience to date. The purpose of the kit ...
Port Reception Facilities in the NOWPAP Region
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2009)
These guidelines were designed to assist local organizations, local governments and NOWPAP member states by providing information on port collection facilities as submitted by the member states or collected from the ...
Guideline for Shoreline Clean-up
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2005)
This guideline has been developed to provide practical suggestions for the treatment or cleanup of oiled shorelines by expert groups, taking into account the reference materials and methods used in the NOWPAP region. In ...
Guideline for the Use of Dispersants
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2005)
This report aims to give an overview of the international use of dispersants, as a basis for the development of NOWPAP Guidelines on Oil Spill Dispersants that can be used during joint response operations within the framework ...
Marine Litter Guidelines for Tourists and Tour Operators in Marine and Coastal Areas
(NOWPAP Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (NOWPAP CEARAC), 2007)
These guidelines were prepared to help reduce tourist-generated marine litter in recognition of the expected growth in tourism and the negative impacts of tourists on the marine environment. The guidelines provide a synopsis ...