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Chemical Risk Assessment: Human Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment - Training Module No. 3
(1999)
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of chemicals in recent years, many of them new compounds and mixtures whose toxicological properties have not previously been studied and which might prove to be harmful to ...
Urban Air Pollution - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No 4
(1991)
In almost all developing countries, meanwhile, urban air pollution is worsening. Rapidly growing cities, more traffic on roads, use of dirtier fuels, reliance on outdated industrial processes, growing energy consumption, ...
The Contamination of Food
(1992)
The GEMS/Food monitoring programme aims not only to protect public health, but to promote confidence in the purity of foodstuffs through international information exchange on food contamination, and thus encourage international ...
Our Common Seas: Coasts in Crisis
(1990)
Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the ...
Manual for the Geochemical Analyses of Marine Sediments and Suspended Particulate Matter - Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 63
(1995)
The reference methods described in this manual are intended for use in marine monitoring programmes. It has been written to provide detailed instructions on the analytical procedures required for environmental workers to ...