Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "WATER"
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The ABC for Sustainable Cities: A Glossary for Policy Makers
(2016)The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements of it by compiling terms and concepts from ... -
Addressing Marine Plastics: A Roadmap to a Circular Economy
(2019)This document provides an action-oriented strategy by identifying a core set of priority solutions to be implemented by targeted stakeholders from the whole plastics value chain. It aims to reduce the leakage of plastics ... -
Air Concentration and Deposition Rates from Uniform Area sources - A Technical Report
(The Monitoring and Assessment Research Center, 1987)The surface of the earth or the sea may release certain substances to the atmosphere. Often these substances are also classed as pollutants when produced by human activities. This report provides a theory and illustrative ... -
Asia-Pacific Environment Outlook 2
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2001)This report analyzes the state of changes of environment and natural resources that took place over the last hundred years. Time series data on land, forest, biodiversirv, water, marine and atmosphere revealed the alarming ... -
Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Hurricane Gilbert on Coastal and Marine Resources in Jamaica. CEP Technical Report No. 4
(Caribbean Environment Programme, 1989)Hurricane Gilbert struck Jamaica on 12th September 1988, causing loss of life and considerable property damage. The Government and the scientific community acted quickly to establish several working groups to assess the ... -
Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Hurricane Gilbert on Coastal and Marine Resources in Jamaica. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 110
(1990)Hurricane Gilbert struck Jamaica on 12th September 1988, causing loss of life and considerable property damage. Government and the scientific community acted quickly to establish several working groups to assess the damage ... -
Assessment Report on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Palestine 2015: SCP Assessment - SwitchMed Programme
(2016)In Palestine, and according to this analytical study, we have several bright aspects which we can build on and maximize, in addition to many initiatives in terms of legislations and policies, and of practical implementation. -
Better Measuring of Water Supplies and Uses Vital to Meet Global and Local Needs
(2012)Many water problems the world faces are economic, social and political and could be solved by switching to the Green Economy -
Biofuels Vital Graphics: Powering a Green Economy
(2011)Issues related to biofuels are complex and interconnected: they require solid planning and balancing of objectives and trade-offs. Safeguards are needed and special emphasis should be given to options that help mitigate ... -
Cambodia: Ecosystem-based Adaptation 2013-2019 - Enhancing Climate Change Resilience of Rural Communities Living in Protected Areas of Cambodia
(2019)UN Environment is helping the Government of Cambodia to build climate adaptation near 5 community protected forests across the country. These areas are extremely vulnerable to climate change due to increasingly erratic ... -
Challenges for the Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market - Foresight Brief No. 017 June 2020
(2020)Electric vehicles (EV) can play an important part in the decarbonisation of the traffic sector. This helps in climate mitigation and positively impacts the air quality of cities, due to reduced emissions such as CO2, NOx, ... -
Chemical leasing: A global success story
(2011)This brochure presents selected projects that were implemented in close cooperation with the National Cleaner Production Centres of Colombia, Egypt, Russia, Serbia and Sri Lanka, and illustrates how this model helped ... -
Chief Liquidity Series: Water-Related Materiality Briefings for Financial Institutions – Issue 1: Agribusiness
(2009)This report offers financial institutions the expertise required to effectively manage water, and ensure that financial institutions understand the global water challenge and act locally to make a global difference. -
Climate Change and Governance in Afghanistan
(National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), 2015)This report provides a broad overview of the landscape of climate change governance in Afghanistan in order to identify past achievements and current and future entry points for the further mainstreaming of climate change ... -
Community Natural Resource Management & Farm Forestry: Twenty-five Years of Experience in Kordofan and Darfur
(2015)This report provides important lessons learned from community natural resource management and farm forestry in Sudan, including resources such as water and rangelands. -
Consuming Differently, Consuming Sustainability: Behavioural Insights for Policymaking
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The objective of this publication is to shed light on opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of policies for sustainable consumption in both developed and developing countries. The publication provides evidence-based ... -
Data Profile on Mercury with Special Emphasis on Data from the Mediterranean Region - IRPTC Data Profile Series Number Three
(1980)Data profiles of chemicals provide the information necessary to evaluate the potential hazards posed by chemicals to the health of man and his environment, or indicate the absence of such information in publicly available ... -
Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
(2008)The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ... -
Determination of Mesophylic Aeromonads in Sea Water by the Membrane Filtration (MF) Culture Method - Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 69
(1995)The method described is suitable fer the determination of mesophilic aeromonads in coastal bathing waters of temperate and trop1cal seas. It is designed to be used as a supplementary parameter 111 san1tary surveillance of ... -
Determination of Organotins in Environmental Samples - Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 59
(1994)This publication describes reference methods for the determination of organotin compounds in environmental samples. Inputs of organotin compounds to the aquatic environment arise from the use of triorganotins as biocides ...