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Promoting Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Development
(2013)
This highly interactive and problem-based module provides students with theoretical concepts and practical tools in understanding environment and disaster linkages and applications of ecosystem-based disaster risk management. ...
Water statistics in the state of Qatar 2013
(2013)
Water is life! Therefore, the protection of our national natural freshwater resources is part of our National Development Strategy. Qatar’s main source of water is desalination of seawater for drinking water supply and ...
Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Factsheet
(2013)
Due to increasingly complex products metal recycling in the 21st century is becoming a more challenging business. The report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel on “Metal Recycling – Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure” ...
Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Infographic
(2013)
A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report addresses the challenges of recycling ...
Dental Amalgam and its Impact on the Environment: Actions for Dental Associations
(2013)
Dental Amalgam and its Impact on the Environment: Actions for Dental Associations
City-level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Factsheet
(2013)
Global economic production is now concentrated in cities. Some 80% of global GDP is produced in cities on just 2% of the land surface, though cities depend on the flow of resources from near and far. Cities have been growing ...
Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet
(2013)
The unique properties of metals make them essential for many applications and future global demand is predicted to increase. Given this relevance the report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel on “Environmental Risks ...
Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles: How Metals Determine Our Lives – Infographic
(2013)
How metals determine our lives
Dental Amalgam and its Impact on the Environment: Some Facts and Figures - Information for Dentists
(2013)
Dental amalgam is composed of approximately 50% elemental mercury and of 50% silver-zinctin-copper alloy. Mercury is toxic to human health and environment.