Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "PUBLIC HEALTH"
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25 Clean Air Measures for Asia and the Pacific
(2019)Air pollution is not only a major health risk, it also has damaging impacts on the environment and agricultural crop yields. These impacts have significant economic consequences. While existing policies have made progress ... -
Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production: priority products and materials - Factsheet
(2010)The assessment report identifies priorities amongst global consumption activities, industrial sectors and materials from primary industries in terms of their environmental impacts and their resource use. This can play a ... -
Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production: Priority Products and Materials - Summary
(2010)This report prepared by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management assesses best available science on the environmental and resource impacts of production and consumption. The assessment report identifies ... -
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries : Volume V - Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
(1998)The Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries was published for the first time in 1996. The 1996 Edition of the Compendium is produced in about four volumes. The first volume contains the framework environmental ... -
Contaminant Monitoring Programmes Using Marine Organisms: Quality Assurance and Good Laboratory Practice - Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 57
(1990)The Regional Seas Programme was initiated by UNEP in 1974. Since then the Governing Council of UNEP has repeatedly endorsed a regional approach to the control of marine pollution and the management of marine and coastal ... -
Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland - Executive Summary
(2011)The report represents the best available understanding of what has happened to the environment of Ogoniland – and the corresponding implications for affected populations – and provides clear operational guidance as to how ... -
Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland Chapter 5: Assessment of Vegetation, Aquatic and Public Health Issues
(2011)In this chapter, contamination of non-site specific environmental media, such as air and surface water, is discussed, as is the fate of receptors such as human beings, fish and mangroves, all of which can receive pollution ... -
Environmental Impact Assessment: Operational Cost Benefit Analysis - MARC Report No. 42
(1988)This guideline report concentrates on the operational aspects of applying CBA to evaluate projects when there are significant environmental impacts. It is addressed to the need for officials and planners in developing ... -
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 ... -
Guidelines for Monitoring Chemical Contaminants in the Sea Using Marine Organisms - Reference Methods For Marine Pollution Studies No. 6
(1993)The present Reference Method is designed to provide a set of guidelines to assist in pollution and public health to design and implement monitoring programmes based upon the measurement of chemical contaminants in marine ... -
Hydrogen Sulfide - Environmental Health Criteria 19
(1981)Hydrogen sulfide is a colourless gas with a characteristic odour that is soluble in various liquids including water, alcohol, ether, and solutions of amines, alkali carbonates, and bicarbonates. It can undergo a number of ... -
Information for Environmental Health Emergencies: What Can WHO Offer?
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2006)Information for environmental health emergencies -
Phase-Out of Mercury Fever Thermometers and Blood Pressure Devices in Health Care in Brazil and South Africa - Final Report
(2015)HCWH with the support of UNEP and in collaboration with two partner NGOs in South Africa and Brazil implemented a series of activities designed to encourage the emergence of national policies for implementing the phase-out ... -
Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India: Assessment of Motor Vehicle Use Characteristics in Three Indian Cities
(2014)Globally, fuel efficiency of vehicles is taking centre stage within the context of climate change, public health, and reducing dependence on oil. In India, efforts are underway to formulate fuel efficiency standards for ... -
Promoting the ‘Phase Down’ Approach of Dental Amalgam in Developing Countries – Tanzania: Final Project Report
(2014)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the World Dental Federation (FDI) and the International Association of Dental Manufacturers (IDM) implemented a ... -
Report of the Implementation of the UNEP/WHO/Government Of Kenya East Africa Dental Amalgam Phase-Down Project
(2014)The project oh phase-down approach was conceived to assist countries address the use of mercury in dental amalgam. It involved stakeholders in environment, health and dental practitioners. The project helped Kenya understand ... -
Think Piece: Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
(2020)2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and to ... -
Towards a Worldwide Assessment of Freshwater Quality - A UN-Water Analytical Brief
(2016)This Analytical Brief provides information about past assessments, outlines the challenge but also provides a plan for a world water quality assessment, which, if undertaken, would provide decision makers with the information ...