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A Handbook to Estimate Climatological Concentration Deposit and Horizontal Fluxes of Pollutants on a Regional Scale - Technical Report
(1979)
It is now recognized that the air transport of pollutants to distances outside of urban and local industrial areas must be considered for a number of environmental problems. Two general types of problems arise.. In the ...
An Introduction to the Exposure Commitment Concept with Reference to Environmental Mercury - MARC Report Number 12
(Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre, 1979)
When a toxic substance is released to the environment, it may not immediately reach and affect a population of sensitive receptors. This is particularly true if the substance must pass through a sequence of environmental ...
Kinetic and Exposure Commitment Analyses of Lead Behavior In A Biosphere Reserve : A Technical Report - MARC Report Number 15
(1979)
The detailed analysis of an environmental system is a prerequisite to efficient monitoring design. Such analysis includes the sampling scheme, field measurements, pathway analysis and exposure response. The exposure ...
The State of the Environment: Ten Years after Stockholm - Project Plan
(1979)
The main focus of the state of the environment is the changes - positive and/or negative - that occur in the different components of the natural environment (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, etc), with particular ...
Recommended Practices for the Prevention of Mycotoxins in Food, Feed and their Products
(1979)
The purpose of this publication is to recommend practices for the prevention of mycotcxins in food, animal feed and their products. It recognizes that effectiveness of preventive and protective practices to be adopted ...
Desertification Control: The Semi-Annual Bulletin on Plans and Activities Volume 2 Number 1, June 1979
(1979)
Desertification is an old process. Poets and wise men have witnessed its steady action over the centuries. But only recently has man endeavoured to stop the spread of the disease. The rhythm acquired by the process and its ...
Desertification Control: The Semi-annual Bulletin on Plans and Activities Volume 1 Number 2 December 1978
(1979)
Here is the second issue of the Desertification Control Bulletin. Many people from all over the world are involved in efforts aimed at stopping desertification. In this issue we have tried to bring you a variety of perspectives.
Technology, Development and the Environment : A Re-Appraisal
(1979)
Development must be viewed as a comprehensive and global process, embracing all aspects of the social system and its interrelationship with the natural environment. In this dynamic interrelationship, technology is the ...
Manual of Methods in Aquatic Environment Research Part 5 - Statistical Tests. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 182
(1979)
Further to a Manual on Sampling and Analyses of Biological Material (FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. 158), this Manual on Statistical Tests has been prepared to assist laboratories participating in the FAD/UNEP project in proper ...
A Report on the Status, Importance and Protection of the Montane Forests: IPAL Technical Report Number D-2a
(1979)
The terms of reference for this study of the montane forests were for "an ecological study of the isolated mountain rain forests within the project working area. It will include preliminary ecological surveys to provide ...