Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "HUMAN HEALTH"
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Beat Plastic Pollution Practical Guide - World Environment Day 2023
(2023-05)Plastic pollution is preventable. Taking action across all sectors of society can halt and reverse it. This guide provides some tips on how we can all be part of the global movement to #BeatPlasticPollution. -
Domestic Environment and Health of Women and Children
(1999)Given that the health problems associated with the domestic environment mainly affect women and children, gender issues are a strong component of this study. The book provides examples of how social and political backgrounds ... -
Drowning in Plastics: Marine Litter and Plastic Waste Vital Graphics
(2021)This publication aims to provide a complete overview of the global challenges related to marine litter and plastic waste through a combination of condensed descriptions of key thematic areas and graphic illustrations that ... -
Gas Fracking: Can We Safely Squeeze the Rocks? - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) November 2012
(2012-11)Hydrological fracturing techniques have made accessible vast unconventional gas reserves. However, observed impacts on the environment and human health raise legitimate public concerns. The potential climate benefits of ... -
Growing Popularity of Alternate Food Systems for Environment and Health - Foresight Brief No. 015 April 2020
(2020)A food system could be defined as the path that food travels - starting from conception in the field to the resulting nutritional outcomes for those consuming it. This includes the growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, ... -
A guide to implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action at national level
(World Health Organization, 2023-12)The guide aims to provide countries with practical guidance on how to implement the One Health approach through the adoption and adaptation of the implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA), aligning with ... -
Key Messages - Preventing the Next Pandemic – Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
(2020)This evidence-based scientific assessment has identified the following key messages for decision-makers: 1) De-risking food systems; 2) Urgency; 3) Report audience; 4) Scope of the problem; 5) Outbreak frequency and ... -
One Health Joint Action Plan of Action (2022-2026): Working together for the Health of Humans, Animals, Plants and the Environment
(2022-10)The scope of the OH JPA is guided by the imperative for an inclusive One Health approach to addressing the health threats of humans, animals and plants in an integrated manner, while promoting environment and biodiversity ... -
Plastic in Cosmetics: Are We Polluting the Environment through our Personal Care? - Plastic ingredients that contribute to marine microplastic litter
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)This paper focuses on the emerging issue of plastic particles in personal care and cosmetic product (PCCP) formulations as a possible source of micro-sized plastic litter. Known as ‘microbeads’, when used in PCCPs, these ... -
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Zoonotic Diseases and how to Break the Chain of Transmission
(2020)In the spirit of the UN Framework for the Immediate Socio-economic Response to COVID-19, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has teamed up with the renowned International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and ... -
Proceedings of the GESAMP International Workshop on Assessing the Risks Associated with Plastics and Microplastics in the Marine Environment - GESAMP Reports and Studies No. 103
(2019)This report represents the proceedings of a three-day GESAMP workshop on the current risk assessment approaches for plastics and microplastics in the marine environment. The workshop was an opportunity to work with multiple ... -
Research Priorities on Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation: Responding to the Climate Change Challenge
(2013)Research Priorities on Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation: Responding to the Climate ange Challenge consists of 33 topics presented in three sections: Information to Support Policymaker Decisions, Systems and Regions ... -
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Recent discussion of biodiversity loss has focused on its expected ecological consequences, as well as on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, and economic effects this loss will have on our world. Sustaining Lfe is the ... -
What is the Right to a Healthy Environment? - Information Note
(2022)This Information Note aims to improve understanding of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment and why it matters. Further, the note traces the origins of this right, describes its key elements and ...