Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "RISK ASSESSMENT"
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Aid for Trade: A Vehicle to Green Trade and Build Climate Resilience
(2020)Aid for Trade (Aft) is a mechanism to support developing countries build the capacity and infrastructure needed to benefit from trade opening. It accounts for roughly 30% of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA). Developing ... -
Basic Environmental Health
(2001)This comprehensive interdisciplinary text draws from the social sciences, the natural sciences and the health sciences to introduce students to the principles and methods of environmental health. It offers an overview of ... -
Biomarkers in Risk Assessment: Validity and Vlidation - Environmental Health Criteria 222
(2001)The aim of risk assessments is to provide society with estimates of the likelihood of illnesses and injury as a consequence of exposure to various hazards. Risk assessments are needed when social policy decisions are in ... -
Calculator for the Estimation of Relative Risks and Vulnerabilities of Contaminated Sites - A User Manual
(2020-12)This Guidance document assists users in understanding and completing the Calculator for the estimations of relative risks and vulnerabilities of contaminated sites. The Calculator for the estimations of relative risks and ... -
Case Studies on Tailings Management
(1998)With the cooperation of a large number of experts, ICME has compiled this collection of case studies of tailings management practices in operations in many parts of the world. The first section provides the reader with an ... -
Challenges and Strategies for Implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Human Health in Developing Countries: Reflections from Regional Consultations
(2001)This publication is devoted to promote the Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health concept and to disseminate the main conclusions of three international consultations held in 1999 and 2000 and sponsored by multiple international ... -
Chemical Risk Assessment: Human Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment - Training Module No. 3
(1999)There has been a dramatic increase in the use of chemicals in recent years, many of them new compounds and mixtures whose toxicological properties have not previously been studied and which might prove to be harmful to ... -
Chemicals in Plastics - A Technical Report
(2023-05)This report aims to inform the global community about the chemical-related issues of plastic pollution and options to address them. It also aims to support the negotiation process to develop the instrument on plastic ... -
ChemObs Risks and Vulnerabilities Calculator
(2020-12)The Calculator for the estimations of relative risks and vulnerabilities of contaminated sites is a is a decision-making tool to provide a relative risk assessment for different chemical pollutants, both at a point source ... -
Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Developing Countries: Assessing the Impact of Climate Risks on Sovereign Borrowing Costs
(2018)This collaborative research project between Imperial College Business School and SOAS has been commissioned by UN Environment, with generous financial support from the MAVA Foundation. The study finds that climate risks ... -
Disinfectants and Disinfectant By-Products - Environmental Health Criteria 216
(2000)Chlorine (Cl,) has been widely used throughout the world as a chemical disinfectant, serving as the principal barrier to microbial contaminants in drinking-water. The noteworthy biocidal attributes of chlorine have been ... -
Environmental Risk and Commercial Banks: Discussion Paper
(1994)The purpose of this discussion paper is to provide lenders -- particularly lenders that have recently begun to address environmental issues -- with a "snapshot" of some key issues. It begins with an overview of current and ... -
The Environmental Risk Disclosure Regime: Navigating Complexity in Global Financial Markets - CIGI Papers No. 47
(Centre For International Governance Innovation, 2014)This paper will address this gap by first describing environmental risk disclosure as a regime complex that is defined by characteristics, including multiple actors and governance levels, fragmented decision making, rule ... -
Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure: A Practical Guide for Financial Institutions
(2018)Financial institutions wishing to understand and assess their exposure to natural capital risks have faced a lack of comprehensive and systematic information on how businesses depend on the environment and the consequences ... -
Extremely Low Frequency Fields - Environmental Health Criteria 238
(2007)This Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) monograph addresses the possible health effects of exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic fields. It reviews the physical characteristics or ELF fields as ... -
Genetically Modified Organisms: A Guide to Biosafety
(1995)This volume is intended to provide an unbiased technical guide to those dealing with genetically modified organisms at the research or regulatory level. Reference to existing regulations is meant to bring into perspective ... -
Global Chemicals Outlook II - From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2019)The Global Chemicals Outlook II – From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, mandated by the UN Environment Assembly in 2016, seeks to alert policymakers and other ... -
Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure
(2008)This “Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure” is intended to inform countries concerned about the potential health impacts of mercury pollution and, if necessary, to assist in identifying specific ... -
Implementation of Policy Response Packages to Promote Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Confronting Sustainability in the Mining Sector Role for a Sustainability Fund
(2003)The present study offers a detailed analysis of the Sustainability Fund proposal and investigates the answers to the aforementioned questions. Sustainability is basically seen at a local level, and the analysis is directed ...