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The State of the Environment: Ten Years after Stockholm - Project Plan
The main focus of the state of the environment is the changes - positive and/or negative - that occur in the different components of the natural environment (atmosphere,... -
Asean Heritage Parks and Reserves
the Second ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok, on 29 November 1984, issued the important Declaration on Heritage Parks and Reserves which created the first group of 11... -
Report of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Terrestrial Ecosystems...
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A Rapid Assessment of the Impacts of the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict on Terrestrial...
This report gives an overall assessment of the effects of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict on the terrestrial ecosystems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It also provides a description... -
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations Environment... -
Voices from the Land: Restoring Soils and Enriching Lives
As vital to our existence as air or water, land is one of our greatest shared assets – and degradation of that land one our most pressing common challenges. Unchecked... -
L'impact potentiel des activités socio-économiques sur l'environnement marin...
le présent rapport a pour but principal de passer en revue et d'évaluer les activités socio-économiques actuelles, y compris les projets de développement susceptibles... -
Mapping Current and Future Priorities for Coral Restoration and Adaptation...
This report summarises the findings of an initial scoping study which aimed to identify common interests, facilitate global and regional collaborations, and help identify... -
Copper - Environmental Health Criteria 200
Copper is a reddish-brown, ductile and malleable metal. It belongs to group IB of the Periodic Table. In compounds found in the environment it usually has a valence of 2 but can... -
Methanol - Environmental Health Criteria 196
Methanol is a clear, colourless, volatile flammable liquid with a mild alcoholic odour when pure. It is miscible with water and many organic solvents and forms many binary... -
Aluminium - Enviromnental Health Criteria 194
Aluminium is a silvery-white, ductile and malleable metal. It belongs to group IIIA of the Periodic Table, and in compounds it is usually found as AlIII. It forms about 8% of... -
Tributyltin Compounds - Environmental Health Criteria 116
Tributyltin (TBT) compounds are organic derivatives of tetravalent tin. They are characterized by the presence of covalent bonds between carbon atoms and a tin atom and have the... -
Cyhalothrin - Environmental Health Criteria 99
Cyhalothrin is formed by esterifying 3-(2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoroprop-1-enyl)-2,2- dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid with alpha-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol, and it consists... -
Tetramethrin - Environmental Health Criteria 98
Tetramethrin was first synthesized in 1964 and first marketed in 1965. Chemically, it is an ester of chrysan-themic acid (2,2-imethyl-3-(2,2-dimethylvinyl)-cyclopro-... -
Fenvalerate - Environmental Health Criteria 95
Fenvalerate is a potent insecticide that has been in use since 1976. It is an ester of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyric acid and alpha-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol, but lacks... -
Aldrin and Dieldrin - Environmental Health Criteria 91
Aldrin and dieldrin are the common names of insecticides containing 95% HHDN and 85% HEOD, respectively. Throughout this monograph the names aldrin and dieldrin are used,... -
Formaldehyde - Environmental Health Criteria 89
Formaldehyde is a flammable, colourless and readily polymerized gas at ambient temperatures. The most common commercially available form is a 30-50% aqueous solution.... -
DDT and its Derivatives: Environmental Aspects - Environmental Health Criteria 83
It is the aim of this document to take the ecotoxicologist's point of view and consider effects on populations of organisms in the environment. The risk to human health of the... -
Cypermethrin - Environmental Health Criteria 82
Cypermethrin was initially synthesized in 1974 and first marketed in 1977 as a highly active synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, effective against a wide range of pests in... -
Vanadium - Environmental Health Criteria 81
?letaliic vanadium does not occur in nature. Over 70 vanadium minerals are known, carnatite and vanadinite being the most important from the point of view of mining. Production...