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RAC Technician Video App
(2016)Watch short instructional videos on refrigeration & air-conditioning (RAC) techniques, safety, and best practices on your mobile device -
RAC Technician Videos - Full Length Films!
(2020)OzonAction Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Technician Video Series consists of instructional videos on techniques, security and best practice and flammable refrigerant safety. They are intended to serve as a complementary ... -
Races Ovines Mediterranennes en Regression
(1979)Cet ouvrage est le rapport d'une enqute visant a retrouver et recenser les races ovi-nes moms communes des regions méditerranéennes de l'Europe et de l'Anatolie occidentale, a dresser la carte de leur distribution et a ... -
Radar Design for Determining the Strength of Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal : MARC Report Number 6
(1977)An especially severe and recurring natural disaster is the tropical cyclone particularly as affecting the land surrounding the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. A particularly well documented case there was the cyclone ... -
Radiation: Doses, Effects, Risks
(1985)Few scientific issues arouse so much public controversy as the effects of radiation. Scarcely a week seems to go by in developed countries without some expression of public feeling— and, as some developing Countries advance ... -
Radiation: Doses, Effects, Risks - 2nd Edition
(1991)Few scientific issues arouse so much public controversy as the effects of radiation. Scarcely a week seems to go by in developed countries without some expression of public feeling— and, as some developing Countries advance ... -
Radiation: Effects and sources
(2016)This publication is based on the major scientific reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) published in the last 25 years and aims to expand public knowledge on levels ... -
Radioactivity in the South Pacific - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 40
(1984)This Report is the outcome of the Technical Group's efforts. The Report can be said to have three overall objectives: (i) to provide the general reader with some basic information needed to understand the scientific issues ... -
Radiofrequency and Microwaves - Environmental Health Criteria 16
(1981)Microwave and radiofrequency (RE) radiation constitute part of the whole electromagnetic spectrum. This document is concerned with frequencies lying between 105 and 3 × 1011 Hz (100 kHz and 300 GHz). The term radiofrequency ... -
Rain Forest Regeneration and Management
(1988)Some two weeks after the formal opening of the dam, Guri was the venue for an international workshop on rain forest regeneration and management. The workshop was concerned with the interface between research and management ... -
Rainwater harvesting : a lifeline for human well-being
(UNEP, 2009)This publication highlights the link between rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and human wellbeing and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology and how the negative ... -
Raising Awareness of Climate Change: A Handbook for Government Focal Points
(2006)UNEP has prepared this 'handbook for government focal points' by drawing on a recent series of UN-sponsored workshops and its own experience in supporting outreach activities. The handbook gathers together a range of ... -
Raising the Bar - Advancing Environmental Disclosure in Sustainability Reporting
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)This global cross-sector report assesses the environmental dimension of sustainability reporting and provides recommendations to make environmental reporting relevant to all stakeholders. It analyses what the key and most ... -
Rangeland Restoration: Model Summary And Toolkit Guide
(2017)This draft model has emerged from five years of intensive implementation and research work in four wards of the communal tenure landscape of the Matatiele Municipality, located in the upper uMzimvubu catchment, in the ... -
A Rapid Assessment of the Impacts of the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict on Terrestrial Ecosystems Part Three: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(1991)This report gives an overall assessment of the effects of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict on the terrestrial ecosystems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It also provides a description of the state of the environment in the Kingdom ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza River Basin
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)The report notes that the Tsiza river basin ecosystem is regenerating itself after the cyanide accident, with wildlife largely recovering. But, it says more concerted action is needed to address environmental threats or ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza RIver Basin
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1998)Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region remain at risk ... -
Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Urban Community of AlFayha’,Lebanon
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Rapid Environmental Assessment Republic of Maldives
(Joint United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/ The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Environment Unit, 2005)On 26 December 2004, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale caused powerful tsunamis that reached the Maldives around 9:30 in the morning. A United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team was ... -
Rapidly growing middle class presents severe challenge for the environment and human health in Asia and the Pacific: Global Environmental Outlook 6 - Factsheet
(UNEP, 2016)The factsheet highlihts the findings of the GEO 6 Regional Assessment of the state of environment in Asia Pacific
