Tolba tells the story of the negotiations that led to a number of landmark agreements, such as the Vienna Convention on Ozone and its Montreal Protocol, the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes, and the Biodiversity Convention.As Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) from 1976 to 1992, Mostafa K. Tolba had as much ...
Over the past three decades, the pace of global environmental change has been increasing, and there are warning signals that this trend may accelerate. This has triggered much reflection (and action) within the environmental policy community. Volume Four of the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change provides key information on the progress ...
This piece of futures forcasting reports on the prospects for the development and environment of the Mediterrranean for the next 40 years. It is sponsored by the UN Environment Programme and has been carried out by the Blue Plan Regional Activity Centre under the leadership of Dr Grenon. It uses "scenarios" to explore the implications of ...
This work analyzes the changes (both positive and negative) that have occurred in the environment in the past two decades. It focuses not only on the state of the environment but also on the interactions between development activities and the environment. It highlights the main responses since 1972 to protect the environment, and is based on a ...
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