UNEP Annual Review, 1978

UNEP Annual Review, 1978
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1980
Genre: Conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 9280710133

UNEP Annual Review, 1980

UNEP Annual Review, 1980
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1981
Genre: Conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 9280710419

UNEP Annual Report

UNEP Annual Report
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2004-05-14
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN: 9280724266

This report details the goals and activities of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global sustainable development in 2003, as well as providing information on the organisation's funding, structure, personnel and offices around the world. Special attention is given to: Water for the future; Environment and security; Protecting the atmosphere; The regional perspective; Leadership for sustainable development; Knowledge for decision making; Sustainable consumption and production; and, Participation and inspiration.

The Fertilizer Encyclopedia

The Fertilizer Encyclopedia
Author: Vasant Gowariker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2009-04-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470431764

Fertilizers are key for meeting the world s demands for food, fiber, and fuel. Featuring nearly 4,500 terms of interest to all scientists and researchers dealing with fertilizers, The Fertilizer Encyclopedia compiles a wealth of information on the chemical composition of fertilizers, and includes information on everything from manufacturing and applications to economical and environmental considerations. It covers behavior in soil, chemical and physical characteristics, physiological role in plant growth and soil fertility, and more. This is the definitive, up-to-date reference on fertilizers. This book is not available for purchase from Wiley in the country of India. Customers in India should visit Vasudha Research & Publications Pvt. Ltd. at www.fertilizer-encyclopedia.com

International Environmental Policy

International Environmental Policy
Author: Lynton Keith Caldwell
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1996
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780822318668

In this newly revised and expanded edition of the award-winning International Environmental Policy, Lynton Keith Caldwell updates his comprehensive survey of the global international movement for protection of the environment. Serving as a history of international cooperation on environmental issues, this book focuses primarily on the development of international agreements and institutional arrangements--both governmental and nongovernmental--along with the impact of science, technology, trade, and communication on environmental policy. With implications for multinational commerce, population policy, agriculture, energy issues, biological and cultural diversity, transnational equity, ideology, and education, this book takes a broad view of the policy outcomes of what may be the most important social movement of the 20th century, and addresses the events and politics that have significantly affected the movement over the last twenty years and will continue to affect it into the next century.

Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
Author: Virginia H. Dale
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461383633

Roger C. Dahlman Environmental Sciences Division U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C. The potential for humans to alter Earth's atmosphere has been recognized since the end of the 19th century when Arrhenius estimated that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide could alter the atmospheric radiation balance and raise average global temperature. Today, atmospheric CO concentrations play an important part in the 2 climate-change debate. Sources and sinks of CO associated with land use can be 2 significant determinants of the rate and magnitude of atmospheric CO change. 2 Combustion of fossil fuels and the deforestation associated with land-use change both contribute CO to the atmosphere; in contrast, biological processes on land create 2 potential sinks for the excess CO . Thus, land-use change and associated biological 2 processes become important elements in assessments of future atmospheric CO 2 increase; land-cover properties also affect the Earth's albedo, which is a climate feedback.

Global Biopiracy

Global Biopiracy
Author: Ikechi Mgbeoji
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0774840250

Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.

International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: Jonas Brendebach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351206419

International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is the first volume to explore the historical relationship between international organizations and the media. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and coming up to the 1990s, the volume shows how people around the globe largely learned about international organizations and their activities through the media and images created by journalists, publicists, and filmmakers in texts, sound bites, and pictures. The book examines how interactions with the media are a formative component of international organizations. At the same time, it questions some of the basic assumptions about how media promoted or enabled international governance. Written by leading scholars in the field from Europe, North America, and Australasia, and including case studies from all regions of the world, it covers a wide range of issues from humanitarianism and environmentalism to Hollywood and debates about international information orders. Bringing together two burgeoning yet largely unconnected strands of research—the history of international organizations and international media histories—this book is essential reading for scholars of international history and those interested in the development and impact of media over time.