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Every Drop Counts: Environmentally Sound Technologies for Urban and Domestic Water Efficiency

Product Description: Water use efficiency within the context of sustainable water balance in the urban and domestic sector means optimizing safe and sufficient supply and water demand while also closing the life cycle. This source book is expected to assist policy makers and water managers in identifying those most commonly used Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs)...read more

By United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author)

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9789280728613 | Pap/com edition (United Nations Pubns, December 11, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Water use efficiency within the context of sustainable water balance in the urban and domestic sector means optimizing safe and sufficient supply and water demand while also closing the life cycle.

Dams and Development: Relevant Practices for Improved Decision-Making

Product Description: This is a compilation of relevant practices of dealing with environmental and social issues during the planning, design and management of dams. It is designed as an informative learning tool for decision-makers and technical practitioners...read more

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9789280728163 | United Nations Pubns, May 31, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is a compilation of relevant practices of dealing with environmental and social issues during the planning, design and management of dams.

Implementing Sustainable Development: Integrated Assessment and Participatory Decision-Making Processes

Product Description: Decision-makers increasingly seek to design environmental and development policies that will support sustainable development. Thus, practical tools to help formulate sustainable development policies and clear methods to assess their acceptability and effectiveness are urgently needed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Hussein Abaza (editor), Andrea Baranzini (editor) and United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author)

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9781840649130 | Edward Elgar Pub, December 1, 2002, cover price $146.00 | About this edition: Decision-makers increasingly seek to design environmental and development policies that will support sustainable development.

Africa Environment Outlook - Past, Present and Future Perspectives

Product Description: The Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) Integrated Assessment Report Project is a collaborative initiative between the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is the first comprehensive integrated report on the African environment and it uses the same cutting-edge assessment methodology as UNEP's Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports...read more

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9789280721010 | U N Environmental Programme, December 1, 2002, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) Integrated Assessment Report Project is a collaborative initiative between the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Global Environment Outlook 3: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

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By United Nations Environment Programme (editor)

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9781853838446 | Hardcover with CD edition (Routledge, August 1, 2002), cover price $210.00

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9781853838453 | Pap/cdr edition (Routledge, August 1, 2002), cover price $78.95

Vital Signs 2002: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Product Description: This annual volume, written by the staff of the award-winning Worldwatch Institute, gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts. By distilling forty-five "vital signs" of our times from thousands of government, industrial, and scientific documents, this book allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Janet N. Abramovitz (editor), United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author) and Worldwatch Institute (editor)

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9780393323153 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This annual volume, written by the staff of the award-winning Worldwatch Institute, gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts.

World Atlas of Coral Reefs

Presents a detailed account of the ecological functions of, threats to, and current state of the planet's coral reefs, providing eighty-four detailed maps, more than 200 color photos, and informative descriptions. (view table of contents)

By Edmund P. Green, Corinna Ravilious, Mark D. Spalding and United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author)

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9780520232556 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Provides photographs and text to discuss the geographic distribution and conservation status of coral reefs in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.

Neurotoxicity Risk Assessment

Product Description: This publication summarizes the scientific knowledge base on which principles and methods involved in neurotoxicity risk assessment are based. It is aimed at providing a framework for public health officials, research and regulatory scientists and risk managers on the use and interpretation of neurotoxicity data from human and animal studies and it discusses emerging methodological approaches to studying neurotoxicity...read more

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9789241572231 | World Health Organization, January 30, 2001, cover price $57.60 | About this edition: This publication summarizes the scientific knowledge base on which principles and methods involved in neurotoxicity risk assessment are based.

Global Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century

Product Description: The 1990s seen a remarkable increase in appreciation of the links between the state of ecosystems and the state of humankind. This publication explores the key global issues of biodiversity. It examines the relationships between humankind and biodiversity, covering salient features of human impacts on the environment from the earliest hominines onward, and the uses currently made of elements of biodiversity...read more

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9781899628155 | United Nations Pubns, December 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The 1990s seen a remarkable increase in appreciation of the links between the state of ecosystems and the state of humankind.

Global Assessment of Acidification and Eutrophication of Natural Ecosystems: (Environment Information and Assessment Technical Report)

Product Description: This publication presents a global assessment of acidification and eutrophication caused by sulphur and nitrogen deposition. The study has two objectives: the first is to assess the present and possible future risks of acidification and eutrophication of terrestrial natural and semi-natural ecosystems, as well as nitrogen loading of rivers and estuaries...read more

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9789280718331 | United Nations Pubns, August 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This publication presents a global assessment of acidification and eutrophication caused by sulphur and nitrogen deposition.

Phasing Lead Out of Gasoline: An Examination of Policy Approaches in Different Countries

Product Description: Studies have confirmed that any absorption of lead into the body has detrimental effects. With this knowledge, some governments have established programmes to completely eliminate the use of lead as a gasoline additive. This publication discusses the options and programmes policy makers can adopt in their efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of lead in gasoline...read more

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9789280717969 | United Nations Pubns, May 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Studies have confirmed that any absorption of lead into the body has detrimental effects.

Earth and Faith: A Book of Reflection for Action

Product Description: This publication reflects on the numerous links between faith and the preservation of our planet Earth. It offers an overview of lessons that the various faith traditions provide through the profound respect they teach for our planet...read more

By Libby Bassett (editor), John T. Brinkman (editor), Kusumita P. Pedersen (editor) and United Nations Environment Programme

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9789280719154 | U N Environmental Programme, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This publication reflects on the numerous links between faith and the preservation of our planet Earth.

Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: 1998 Assessment

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By United Nations Environment Programme (editor)

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9789280717242 | United Nations Pubns, June 1, 1998, cover price $45.00

Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 1998

By United Nations Environment Programme (editor)

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9789280717228 | United Nations Pubns, January 1, 1998, cover price $135.00

Ecolabels in the Tourism Industry

By United Nations Environment Programme

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9789280717082 | U N Environmental Programme, January 1, 1998, cover price $45.00

World Resources 1996-97

Product Description: Provides up-to-date statistics on economic, population, natural resources, environmental trends and conditions for nearly every country in the world. Ideal for both quick fact-checking and for sophisticated research and analysis, the World Resources Database Diskette allows easy access to all of the statistics found in the print edition of World Resources 1996-97, and more...read more

By United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank and World Resources Institute

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9781569730942 | World Bank, November 14, 1996, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Provides up-to-date statistics on economic, population, natural resources, environmental trends and conditions for nearly every country in the world.

Interactions of Desertification and Climate

Product Description: This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of reference available on current knowledge of the interactions between desertification and climate. It has been jointly commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological organization and brings together a wide range of material that is currently scattered around journals...read more

By Robert C. Balling, United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author), M. A. J. Williams and World Meteorological Organization (corporate author)

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9780470235478 | Halsted Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of reference available on current knowledge of the interactions between desertification and climate.

9780340632178 | Hodder Education, October 15, 1995, cover price $90.00 | also contains Where Does Kitty Go in the Rain?

Global Biodiversity Assessment

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By V. H. Heywood (editor), United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author) and R. T. Watson (editor)

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9780521564038 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $180.00

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9780521564816 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $65.00

Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Prospects

Product Description: The concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was developed as an alternative to chemical pesticides following the widespread realization or their horrifying and damaging effects on environment, human, animal and plant health, which were vividly portrayed in Rachel Carson s book Silent Spring...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Hiremagalur N. B. Gopalan (editor), K. N. Kailash (editor), Annalee N. Mengech (editor) and United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author)

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9780471960768 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $471.00 | About this edition: The concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was developed as an alternative to chemical pesticides following the widespread realization or their horrifying and damaging effects on environment, human, animal and plant health, which were vividly portrayed in Rachel Carson s book Silent Spring.

National Biodiversity Planning: Guidelines Based on Early Experiences Around the World

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By Steven M. Lanou (editor), Kenton Miller (editor), United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author) and World Resources Institute (corporate author)

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9781569730256 | Spiral-bound edition (World Resources Inst, June 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by

Review of Country Case Studies on Climate Change

By Jan Fuglestvedt (editor), Global Environment Facility (corporate author), United Nations Development Programme (corporate author), United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author) and World Bank (corporate author)

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9781884122064 | World Bank, March 1, 1993, cover price $22.00

Art for Survival: The Illustrator and the Environment

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By Joy Aquilino (editor), Earth Island Institute (corporate author) and United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author)

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9783857094347 | Graphis Inc, August 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Quarto, , PP.

Climate Change: The Ipcc Scientific Assessment

By J. J. Ephraums (editor), John Theodore. Houghton (editor) and G. J. Jenkins (editor)

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9780521403603 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 26, 1990), cover price $135.00

The Ozone Layer: A Synthesis of Papers Based on the Unep Meeting on the Ozone Layer, Washington, D.C., March, 1977

By United Nations Environment Programme (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

9780080224299 | Franklin Book Co, July 1, 1979, cover price $89.00

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