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The State of the World Environment 1987
(1987)
Over the past five years, there has been a marked improvement in the quality of the data base in certain fields and in our understanding of some environmental phenomena like the possible depletion of the ozone layer or the ...
Environmental Aspects of Nickel Production: Part I. Sulphide Pyrometallurgy and Nickel Refining - A Technical Review
(1987)
This technical review covers the most comnionly used methods of extractive metallurgy and the equipment to produce nickel and nickel products. It is divided into two parts:
Environmental Aspects of Nickel Production - ...
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 15, 1987: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1987)
In this issue: Desertification is a Human Tragedy: a foreword; The Tenth Anniversary of UNCOD; Reflections on the PACD; A Review of Progress since the UN Conference on Desertification; Seven Paths to Desertification; ...
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 14 1987: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1987)
In this issue: Shifting Sands and Human Sorrow: Social response to drought and desertification; Camel Vs Cattle Pastoralism: stopping desert spread; African Drought and its Impacts: Revived interest in a recurrent phenomenon; ...
The Greenhouse Gases - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 1
(1987)
The Earth's climate, over the millennia of its existence, has been shaped by the cosmic forces of nature—by the cooling of the Earth's core, variations in the intensity of the Sun, changes in the tilt of our planet. These ...
Bioenergy Tree Plantations in the Tropics: Ecological Implications and Impacts - Commission on Ecology Papers Number 12
(International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1987)
Report of the Workshop on Chemical Hazards for African Countries, Nairobi, September 14-18, 1987
(1987)
The workshop was held to review and assess the magnitude of chemical hazards in Africa; to review and assess the current status of capabilities for dealing with these hazards; to explore possibilities for co-operation ...
Climate Crisis: 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, organized and financed by the United Nations Environment ...
GRID Pilot Project: An Interim Status Report - GRID Information Series No. 9
(1987)
GRID serves as a switchboard for environmental data and gives access to information synthesized from global, regional and national monitoring of the Earth's environment.