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The Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies
(1987)
Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland. But the main purpose of this report was simply to establish ...
A Geographical Information System and Satellite Remote Sensing to Plan for Aquaculture Development: A FAO - UNEP/GRID Cooperative Study in Costa Rica - FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 287
(1987)
Planning for aquaculture development has been hindered by a lack of comprehensive information on the land, water, human and economic resources available at national, subnational,and ecosystem levels of organization.
Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis Surveillance, Prevention and Control: FAO/UNEP/WHO Guidelines
(1982)
These guidelines can be regarded as a monograph embracing almost all aspects of echinococcosis/hydatidosis biology and control. Some parts will be of interest to one group of personnel and other parts will be important to ...
Pesticides in the Aquatic Environment: A Global Assessment of Use and Effects - MARC Report Number 39
(1987)
This review investigates the deliberate use of pesticides in global freshwater environments and highlights those areas where pesticides are used in large quantities. The potential risk to the aquatic ecosystems is assessed ...
Review of the Protected Areas System in Oceania
(1986)
The area covered by this review is that served by the South Pacific Commission with some minor additions. It is a region of a few larger and many tiny islands, with diverse and often unique species and ecosystems, scattered ...
Towards a Prosperous Planet: UNEP's Clearing house
(1987)
UNEP's Clearing-house, one of our youngest programmes, expands our roles of 'catalysis and co-ordination" in the field of technical co-operation. The Clearing-house acts as a benevolent broker, an impartial friend and ...
Tourism - Directory of Institutions and Experts in Mediterranean Region
(1988)
Information contained in this second group of Directories (human settlements, soil protection and tourism) has been compiled with the cooperation and help of a large number of experts, a majority of Mediterranean National ...
The World Environment 1972 - 1982: A Report by The United Nations Environment Programme
(1982)
This volume reviews the state of knowledge about changes in the world environment since 1970. It concentrates on events known to have occurred. While the final section of each Chapter looks at the implications of what ...
Photosynthesis in relation to Plant Production in Terrestrial Environments : Natural Resources and the Environment Series Volume 18
(1985)
This book presents the current state of the art on the subject of photosynthesis by initially describing in part one the various photosynthetic mechanisms in relation to plant productivity. Part two of the book deals with ...
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
(1989)
In recent years, the amount of hazardous wastes shipped across national borders has increased substantially. As the generation of wastes in industrialized countries has increased dramatically in the past decades and disposal ...