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Problems And Prospects Desertification of Desertification Control in the ESCAP Region
(1983)
Desertification has always been one of the major environmental problems of the developing countries in Asia as well as Australia. To focus world attention on this serious problem, the United Nations Conference on Desertification ...
Workshop on the Practical Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Baltic Countries
(1994)
The workshop on the Practical Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in tine Baltic Countries, held in Tallinn from 16 - P October 1994. was an important step in facilitating the follow-up of the United ...
The State of the Environment 1983: Selected Topics
(1983)
The present state of the environment report deals with three topics of international significance selected by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its tenth session: two contemporary issues ...
The State of the Environment 1986: Environment and Health
(1986)
This report aims to show that the achievement of sustained development, the promotion of health, and the rational use of the environmental resources are absolutely inseparable. Disregard one and, sooner or later, the other ...
The State of the Environment in Qatar
(1984)
In the course of discussions carried out during my visit to Qatar in April, 1983, it was recommended that the UNEP Regional Office for West Asia should assist the Permanent Environmental Protection Committee (EPC) of Qatar ...
The State of the Environment 1985: Environmental Aspects of Emerging Agricultural Technologies – Population and the Environment
(1984)
In compliance with Governing Council decision 12/3 C of 28 May 1984, two closely interrelated topics are considered in the present report: environmental aspects of emerging agricultural technologies and population and the ...
Definition of Internationally Shared Natural Resources
(1978)
This paper seeks to establish a working base for the formulation of a suitable definition of internationally shared natural resources, for the purpose of policy guidance and law making. It presents a first synthesis of the ...
Environmental Aspects of Iron and Steel Production: An Overview
(1984)
The purpose of the overview is rather to provide basic knowledge and an understanding of environmental protection in relation to the steel industry.
Environmental Aspects of Alumina Production: An Overview
(1995)
With a view to making more widely known the environmentally related issues associated with alumina production and to providing guidance to environmental policy makers in governments and industry, the UNEP Secretariat ...
Environmental Aspects of the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Technical Review
(1977)
The Pulp and Paper industry is one of the major industrial sectors agreed for examination. Consultations have been undertaken with experts nominated by Governments, Industry and international governmental and non-governmental ...