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Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)
This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ...
Evironmental Problems affecting the Coastal and Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP Technical Report 19
(1992)
The obejective of the present document is to provide an assessment of the main environmental problems affecting the marine and costal environment in the Wider Caribbean region, with some analysis of the emerging environmental ...
WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for St. Kitts and Nevis - CEP Technical Report 17
(1992)
Three species of sea turtle, all internationally classified as endangered species, nest on the beaches of St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis. These are the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), green (Chelonia mydas), and ...
Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics : Summary Record - Environmental Economics Series Paper No.4
(1992-02)
The Consultative Meeting on Environment and Economics was sponsored by UNEP in order to solicit expert advice on how the discipline of economics can assist UNEP better fulfil its catalytic, coordinating, consensus-building ...
The Impact of Ozone-Layer Depletion - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 7
(1992)
The ozone layer that has shielded the Earth from damaging ultraviolet radiation since life began is diminishing. This is caused by the use we have made, over the past 60 years, of the ozone layer depleting substances, ...
The El Nino Phenomenon - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 8
(1992)
Places as far apart as Australia and North America, Peru and India are affected by recurrent climatic anomalies known as El Niño. Originating in the Pacific region, El Niño effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ...
Convention on Biological Diversity
(1992)
Convention on Biological Diversity
Economic Assessment of Forestry Project Impacts - FAO Forestry Paper 106
(1992)
By the end of the 80s the shift in emphasis in forestry development towards social and environmental concerns had added complexity to forestry sector and project work. but it had not diminished the importance of a solid ...
Assessing the Risk of Genetic Damage
(1992)
The major objective of the study was to develop a series of principles and recommendations that may serve as the basis for assessing the genotoxic hazards of environmental agents. It was considered that such principles and ...
Environmental Quality Criteria for Coastal Zones in the Wider Caribbean Region: a Compilation - CEP Technical Report No. 14
(1992)
The purpose of this document is to contribute to the process of development of an environmental quality criteria to scientifically address the ecological, cultural and socio-economic conditions of the Wider Caribbean region, ...