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Understanding environment: conflict and cooperation
United Nations Environment Programme
This publication represents UNEPs response to the growing worldwide interest in further exploring the environment and security nexus and the contribution of timely and credible assessments to conflict prevention.
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Waste stabilization ponds and constructed wetlands: design manual
Kayombo, S., Mbwette, T.S.A., Katima, J.H.Y, Ladegaard, N., Jrgensen, S.E.
This Manual provides information for designers, builders and operators about a wide range of applications and objectives such as developing, implementing and operating Artificially Constructed Wetlands (ACW) and Waste Stabilization Ponds (WSP)||Standard systems approach which can be adopted universally and which can accommodate a development technology with changes in information concepts and ideas with time||theoretical background on the biological, chemical and physical processes of each method, the current state of the technology and technical knowledge on how to design, operate and maintain them||and theoretical knowledge on how best the models may be used to describe the systems.
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Cold Water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight-No Longer Out of Mind
Andre Freiwald, Jan Helge Fossa, Anthony Grehan, Tony Koslow and J Murray Roberts
UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series No 22. Cold-water coral reefs : Out of sight - no longer out of mind describes the various cold-water coral ecosystems and associations together with their known and potential worldwide geographical distribution. Case studies and observations from several locations illustrate the state of these reefs and highlight their vulnerability to threats caused by human activities, which have already destroyed or affected a large number of cold-water coral reefs.
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National Solid Waste Management Strategy for Zambia
Environmental Council of Zambia
This National Solid Waste Management Strategy (NSWMS) is a vital document that proposes integrated approaches to addressing the problem of poor solid waste management, which has had over the years far reaching effects on both human health and also the environment. It is important to note that this strategy will focus on solid waste management but it will however include such wastes as used oils and sewer sludge which may not necessarily be solid.
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Cloud forest agenda
United Nations Environment Programme
This report provides the first global maps of cloud forests, a regional analysis of the threats facing these forests and information on their biodiversity and watershed importance. Cloud Forest Agenda was compiled by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) as a product of the Mountain Cloud Forest Initiative, which is a partnership between UNEP-WCMC, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme and International Hydrological Programme (IHP), and the Commission on Ecosystem Management of the IUCN-The World Conservation Union.
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