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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 ...
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 ...
Guidelines and Checklists to Review Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
(2010)
An environmental and social impact assessment report is a statement about the likely impacts of a proposal and how the identified negative impacts can be mitigated and managed and how the positive impacts can be enhanced. ...
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 ...
Integrated Assessment: Mainstreaming Sustainability into Policymaking - A Guidance Manual
(2009)
This guidance manual provides support in using Integrated Assessment as a tool for mainstreaming sustainability into policymaking processes (policies, plans and programmes). In doing so, it uses international experiences ...
Summary Guidelines for Training of Civil Society Organizations and Journalists on Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda
(2007)
As part of the Rwanda’s development efforts, the integration of long-term climate change adaptation activities into their national planning process was facilitated and achieved through the implementation of an Education, ...
Guidelines for conducting Integrated environmental assessments
(2019)
Integrated Environmental Assessments have been part of the environmental management
landscape following up on the Resolution 2997 of the 1972 United Nations (UN) Conference on
The Human Environment, Stockholm, that stated, ...
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 ...