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Environmental Activities of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) Related to UNEP Programmes: Report and Directory - Prepared for the Eighth Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme
(1980)
This document presents an overview of non-government organisation (NG0) activities in the seven subject areas selected for in-depth review at the eighth session of the United Nations Environment Programmes Governing Council. ...
Environmental Assessment of Ozone Layer: Depletion and its Impact as of April 1984 - Bulletin No.9 January 1985
(1985)
Bulletin No. 9 shows an important change from previous issues. Its new title, "Envirorxnental Assessment of ozone layer modification and its impact", reflects the uncertainty that exists with respect to future budgets of ...
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 ...
Directory of Environmental Education Institutions, Programmes and Resource People in the Caribbean Region
(1985)
This directory is intended to assist in building foundations for continuing environmental education and public awareness programmes in the region, thus providing the support needed for the satisfactory implementation of ...
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 ...
Environmental Guidelines for Pesticide Use on Industrial Crops - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 1
(1982)
Pest control is directly related to two of man's most pressing problems: the provision of food and agricultural commodities for ever-expanding populations and the maintenance of health by the suppression of vectors of human ...
Environmental Guidelines for the Diesel Vehicle - UNEP Industry & Environment Guidelines Series
(1985)
Greater use of diesel vehicles in the transportation sector creates opportunities to solve certain environmental problems associated with motor vehicles, such as those arising from emissions of carbon monoxide and to a ...