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The State of the Environment 1985: Environmental Aspects of Emerging Agricultural Technologies – Population and the Environment
(1984)In compliance with Governing Council decision 12/3 C of 28 May 1984, two closely interrelated topics are considered in the present report: environmental aspects of emerging agricultural technologies and population and the ... -
Guidelines for the Environmental Management of Alumina Production
(1984)These Guidelines are not intended to lay down statutory or mandatory rules, but rather, in summarizing current experience and generally accepted good environmental management practice, to indicate action to be taken, ... -
Environmental Guidelines for the Diesel Vehicle - UNEP Industry & Environment Guidelines Series
(1985)Greater use of diesel vehicles in the transportation sector creates opportunities to solve certain environmental problems associated with motor vehicles, such as those arising from emissions of carbon monoxide and to a ... -
Radiation: Doses, Effects, Risks
(1985)Few scientific issues arouse so much public controversy as the effects of radiation. Scarcely a week seems to go by in developed countries without some expression of public feeling— and, as some developing Countries advance ... -
The Impact of Water-Based Drilling Mud Discharges on the Environment: An Overview
(1985)The first well drilled in the United States was in the year 1859 in the state of Pennsylvania. Since then about 2.7 million onshore wells have been drilled in the U.S. onshore drilling presently continues at an annual rate ... -
Principes directeurs sur la gestion des risques et la prévention des accidents dans l'industrie chimique
(1985)Ce document propose concerne les éléments et les faciliter l'appréciation et prévenir les accidents dans industriels. -
Voices from the Desert
(1985)Ancient civilizations that once reigned 40 over green and fertile lands are now ruins shrouded in shifting sands. These haunting silhouettes of tired stone serve as a reminder of a threat which, if not impeded, moves swiftly ... -
El Medio Ambiente: Un Dialogo Entre las Naciones
(1985)Este informe senala los peligros que amenazan a La humanidad, a consecuencia de Ia pérdida a gran escala de La fertilidad del suelo, de alcances sin precedentes dado que más de un tercio de Ia superficie de Ia tierra está ... -
The Mangroves of the Eastern African Region
(1985)The Eastern African Region considered here, is the marine and coastal areas of the Indian Ocean within the jurisdiction of Comoros, Kenya, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, United Republic of Tanzania ... -
Guidelines for Environmental Management of Iron and Steel Works
(1986)These guidelines provide, in sections 1 and 2, an evaluation of the major environmental issues involved. This is followed by a check listing (table 2), setting out points requiring attention, where effects can be significant. ... -
Guidelines for Environmental Management of Aluminium Smelters
(1986)The objective of the guidelines is to assist Governments and industry in the development and elaboration of policies adapted to local needs, in relation to environmental management. They are not statutory or mandatory ... -
Aspects environnementaux des transports urbains: Principes de base adaptés à L’organisation des transports en zones urbaines dans le respect de l’environnement
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1986)Las principes directeurs étabiis par le Département Industrie at Environriement du PNUE s'inscrivent done dans un processus de diffusion percnanente d'informations techniques rpondant au mieux aux exigences de la protection ... -
Environmental Guidelines for Farming Systems Research - UNEP Environemntal Management Guidelines No. 12
(1986)Farming Systems Research (FSR) has increased in popularity recently both in academic circles and among administrators of national and international agricultural development programmes. In the expectation that FSR programmes ... -
Environmental Guidelines for Afforestation Projects - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 9
(1986)The environmental operational guidelines in this series are presented in the belief that dynamics and change induced by development aims are not without environmental hazards and risks. It is necessary to identify such ... -
The State of the Environment 1986: Environment and Health
(1986)This report aims to show that the achievement of sustained development, the promotion of health, and the rational use of the environmental resources are absolutely inseparable. Disregard one and, sooner or later, the other ... -
Disarmament, environment and sustainable development: A Time for Action
(1986)The origins of the present arms race are many and complex. To a large extent they can be found in the political and socio-economic differences between the countries from the two groups of States which later came to form ... -
Environmental Aspects of Iron and Steel Production: A Technical Review
(1986)The technical review, prepared to support and supplement the overview, deals with the technical aspects of environmental management in steel making. It covers primarily the air and water pollution, solid waste and noise ... -
Environmental Guidelines for Agroforesry Projects - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 11
(1986)There is no doubt that Agroforestry can be an environmentally sound and economically feasible means of developing and protecting marginal and ecologically fragile lartds. Agroforestry, however, is a highly com-plex and ... -
IRPTC Legal File 1986 Volume 1
(1987)This Register file is concerned with national and international recommendations and legal mechanisms related to control of a substance in various media, such as air, water and drinking water, wastes, soil and sediments, ... -
Towards a Prosperous Planet: UNEP's Clearing house
(1987)UNEP's Clearing-house, one of our youngest programmes, expands our roles of 'catalysis and co-ordination" in the field of technical co-operation. The Clearing-house acts as a benevolent broker, an impartial friend and ...
