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Eco-i Manual - Metals Supplement
(2016)The sector specific supplement for metals value chains is an integral part of the Eco-I manual, as it applies the eco-innovation methodology with all its phases and activities on the metals value chain. Valuable background ... -
Eco-i Manual: Eco Innovation Implementation Process
(2016)The Eco-I manual introduces the methodology for the implementation of eco-innovation within small and medium sized companies in developing and emerging economies. The manual presents the core eco-innovation process and ... -
Eco-Innovation Application in Jordan: SwitchMed in Jordan - SwitchMed Programme [Factsheet]
(2020)Eco-innovation is the development and application of a business model, shaped by a new business strategy that incorporates sustainability throughout all business operations based on life cycle thinking and in cooperation ... -
Eco-Labelling of the Priority Groups – PVC Sustainable Windows and Doors and Organic Fruits and Vegetables Final Report
(2015)Concepts like "green public procurement," "sustainable development," "sustainable public procurement," are increasingly common in development strategies established at the European, national or local levels. In this regard, ... -
Eco-technological Approach to Erosion and Mass Wasting Assessment and Management
(2019)Eco-technology (Ecotech) is an emerging approach working with nature by assessing and harnessing the biological systems. The biological protection of soil on slopes, the re-establishment of optimal slope drainage densities ... -
Eco-Trails in Palestine: SwitchMed in Palestine - SwitchMed Programme [Factsheet]
(2020)While hiking and walking on nature trails is popular in Palestine, no clear guidelines on selecting and rehabilitating eco-trails is available. Under the EU-funded SwitchMed programme Palestine’s Environment Quality Authority ... -
Ecoinovação nos Pequenos Negócios
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Ecolabelling as a Potential Marketing Tool for African Products: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges
(2007)Ecolabelling entered mainstream environmental policy making in 1977, when the German government established the blue angel programme. since that time, ecolabels have become one of the more high- profile market-based tools ... -
An Ecological Catalyst for Vietnam’s Guava Farms - Eco-Innovation success story from Vietnam
(2017)On the banks of the Red River in northern Vietnam, the region’s guava fruit farmers face all manner of challenge to their businesses. Like elsewhere, the use of pesticides to protect trees from disease and chemical fertilizers ... -
Ecological debt: balancing the environmental budget and compensating developing
(UNEP, 2001)Every year we witness the hand-wringing of the G7 heads of state over the seemingly intractable poor country debt crisis. But at the 10th anniversary of the Earth Summit in 2002 they may be trapped in negotiations over a ... -
Ecological Footprint and Investment in Natural Capital in Asia and the Pacific
(Asian Development Bank (ADB)World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International), 2012)The widespread loss of natural ecosystems and biodiversity is much more than a conservation issue. Natural ecosystems provide socially and economically valuable services--such as food and fiber resources, clean water and ... -
Ecological interactions between tropical coastal ecosystems
This report consist views expressed of SPC, SPPC, ESCAP -
Ecological Interactions between Tropical Coastal Ecosystems. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 73
(1985)The objective of this report is to summarize information from the literature on ecological interactions between tropical coastal ecosystems and to review management issues and legislation regarding integrated, tropical ... -
The Ecological Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR - Phase II) Volume VII: Near East - Grassland Education and Training with special reference to Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, P.D.R.
(1978)As one of the main constraints for the implementation of grassland development in the EMASAR countries is the inadequacy of national technicians and trained manpower, great emphasis has been stressed on the urgent need of ... -
The Ecological Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR - Phase II) - Volume V: Grassland Education and Training
(1978)This report, made following a visit to Kenya, Botswana and Swaziland in January 1977, has been prepared with a view to developing the regional and sub-regional strategy on information, education and training requested under ... -
The Ecological Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR - Phase II) Volume IX: The Countries of North Africa - Education and Training in the Rangeland Sector
(1979)In order to meet the need for additional information, and for the purpose of formulating an education, training and information policy, consultant missions were organized in the various arid countries of Africa, the Near ... -
The Ecological Management of Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR): Formulation of an International Cooperative Programme - Report of an International Conference held in Rome
(1975)In May 1974 an expert consultation was held in Rome, sponsored jointly by FAO and UNEP, to advise on the formulation of an international programme on the ecological management of arid and semi-arid rangelands in Africa and ... -
Ecological Management of Arid and Semi—Arid Rangelands in Africa and the Near and Middle East (EMASAR - Phase II) Volume VIII: Sudan - Proposals for Grazing Land Development
(1978)At he request of the Government of the Republic of Sudan and with the assistance of the EMASAR Phase II project, a grazing land consultation mission visited Sudan from 23 May to 26 June 1977. The present Phase II endeavored ... -
Ecological Management of Arid and, Semi-Arid Rangelands in Africa and the near Middle East (EMASAR - Phase II) Volume IV: Indigenous Arid and Semi-Arid Forage Plants of North Africa, the Near and Middle East - Technical Data
(1978)The study is the first phase of a programme for the selection, testing, seed exchange and eventually improvement through a breeding programme of forage plants - the programme has two objectives to improve the yield and ...