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Guidelines for the determination of selected trace metals in aerosols and in wet precipitation
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1988)
RSRM 42
Cleaner Production: A Training Resource Package
(1996)
This is a trainers support package, not a reference book. It does not give a systematic, comprehensive overview (there is not enough room to do this); rather, it focuses on some selected aspects that are central to the ...
Computer Analysis for Environmental Biologists
(1987)
It is appropriate that a training course in computer based quantitative methods for environmental biologists be held at this time and it is especially appropriate that it be held in Singapore. For developing countries, ...
UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines for the Integrated Management of Mountain Ecosystems
(1995)
The purposes of these guidelines are first to provide general background information useful for integrated land/soil management in mountain ecosystems. Second, the guidelines detail key techniques for integrated management ...
Environmental Guidelines for Irrigation in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 2
(1982)
Since the dawn of civilization irrigation has played an important role in helping man satisfy the most basic of all his needs the need for food. However, the impact of irrigation projects is not exclusively beneficial, and ...
Environmental Guidelines for Handling Treatment and Disposal of Hazardous Wastes - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 18
(1990)
Concern regarding the handling, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes is growing, as is the need to develop appropriate hazardous waste management strategies. Questions are being asked about suitable actions and ...
Environmental Guidelines for Farming Systems Research - UNEP Environemntal Management Guidelines No. 12
(1986)
Farming Systems Research (FSR) has increased in popularity recently both in academic circles and among administrators of national and international agricultural development programmes. In the expectation that FSR programmes ...
Environmental Guidelines for Agroforesry Projects - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 11
(1986)
There is no doubt that Agroforestry can be an environmentally sound and economically feasible means of developing and protecting marginal and ecologically fragile lartds. Agroforestry, however, is a highly com-plex and ...
Environmental Guidelines for Afforestation Projects - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 9
(1986)
The environmental operational guidelines in this series are presented in the belief that dynamics and change induced by development aims are not without environmental hazards and risks. It is necessary to identify such ...
Environmental Guidelines for Flood Plain Management - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 16
(1988)
Floods are a natural and recurring event that are only a problem when man competes with rivers for the use of the high water channels of rivers or flood plains. Flood-plain occupancy and use is based on the economic ...