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Environmental Law in UNEP
(1991)
The thrust of UNEP's environmental law activity comes from the decisions of its Governing Council and is strengthened by such major UNEP programme documents as the "In-depth Review of Environmental Law" (pertaining to ...
Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion 1991 Update - Panel Report Pursuant to Article 6 of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer Under the Auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
(1991)
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer requires, in Article 6, periodic assessments of available scientific, environmental, technical, and economic information. The assessments shall be made every ...
Report of the International Conference on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Impacts - Hanoi, Vietnam 9-10 November, 1991
(1991)
The expressed aims of this conference were to promote scientific exchange and the formation of collaborations between scientists from many different disciplines and countries who share an interest in the impacts of climate ...
Global Digital Datasets for Land Degradation Studies: a GIS Approach - GRID Case Study Series No. 4
(1991)
This report describes GRID's work in assembling the core data sets used in the production of the global and regional sections of the thematic atlas. Its aim is to serve as a source of background information rather than as ...
Earth and Us: Population-Resources-Environment-Development
(1991)
There are very close and intricate interrelationships between population, resources, environment and development. Changes in one affect the others, positively or adversely. Some of these changes are immediately visible, ...
Global Environment Monitoring Systems: The Potential Socio-Economic Effects of Climate Change – A Summary of Three Regional Assessments
(1991)
This report summarizes the major conclusions of three regional studies of the potential impact of climate change undertaken by national governments with the support of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The Global Climate System: Climate System Monitoring June 1986-November 1988
(1991)
This report, the third biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provides a basis for the monitoring of global change. Due to deficiencies in ...
Water Management of the Amazon Basin
(1991)
This paper analyzes annual maximum precipitation series for the Xingu and Tapajos basins located both in the Amazon basin. The analysis has the objective of indicating a probability distribution function that can be used ...
Electricity and the Environment: Proceedings of a Senior Expert Symposium on Electricity and the Environment
(1991)
The Senior Expert Symposium on Electricity and the Environment was held from 13 to 17 May 1991, in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of the Symposium was to provide a comprehensive assessment of the environmental and health ...
Status of Desertification and Implementation of the United Nations Plan of Action to Combat Desertification - Report of the Executive Director
(1991)
Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas (drylands) resulting mainly from adverse human impact. By General Assembly's Resolution 44/172 of December 1989, the Governing Council and the ...