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Environmental Guidelines for Fish Farming - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 19
(1990)
These guidelines are intended to build awareness of the nature of the relationship between fish farming and the environment and the factors that determine that relationship. The booklet discusses how the culture system ...
Environmental Guidelines for Pesticide Use on Industrial Crops - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 1
(1982)
Pest control is directly related to two of man's most pressing problems: the provision of food and agricultural commodities for ever-expanding populations and the maintenance of health by the suppression of vectors of human ...
Environmental Guidelines for Sand and Gravel Extraction Projects - Environmental Management Guidelines, No. 20
(1990)
The environmental impacts of sand and gravel extraction are not always readily obvious and hence have long been under-estimated. The cumulative, far-reaching effects of numerous uncontrolled operations have contributed ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Diesel Vehicle - UNEP Industry & Environment Guidelines Series
(1985)
Greater use of diesel vehicles in the transportation sector creates opportunities to solve certain environmental problems associated with motor vehicles, such as those arising from emissions of carbon monoxide and to a ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Motor Vehicle and its Use - UNEP Industry & Environment Guidelines Series, Volume 2
(1981)
The environmental aspects of the motor vehicle and its use were first brought under review by UNEP at the Seminar on the Motor Vehicle and the Environment, held in 1976. Material gathered in association with the Seminar ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Direct Reduction Route to Steel Making
(1983)
The electric arc furnace and the development of the mini-steel mill, along with direct reduction, has enabled countries to install for themselves steel making capacities for 60 to 70% of the capital cost required for an ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Restoration and Rehabilitation of Land and Soils after Mining Activities - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 8
(1983)
These are general guidelines for the protection and reclamation of mining areas. They are applicable irrespective of global location and prevalent socio-economic relations.
Environmental Guidelines for Watershed Development - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines, No. 3
(1982)
Economic and development activities in watersheds can be manifold and the interactions between the physical, biologic and socio-economic factors very complex. Therefore, watershed management and development needs an ...
Biogeotechnology of Metals - Manual
(1988)
The main task of the Manual is to outline the basic methodic approaches to the solution of technological problems. It shows that the combination of different microbiological, chemical and technological methods will allow ...
A Directory of Environmentally Sound Technologies for the Integrated Management of Solid Liquid and Hazardous Waste for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Indian, Mediterranean and Atlantic Region
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1999)
This directory has been prepared, to identify and describe ESTs which are suited to the environmental, economic, climatic, cultural, and social context of the IMA/SIDS Region. This directory is structured around 7 separate ...