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 ...
Examining environmental policy and policy making in Egypt, this book analyzes and explains the nature, development and possible implications of environmental concern as a political issue. It explains who makes environmental policy, how that policy is arrived at, and what its impact is.
A collection of reports focusing on the inter-relationships among population, resources, environment and development. The contributors include Robert Mugabe, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Rajiv Gandi, Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia and Barbara Brundtland, president of the World Bank.
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 ...
Since the establishment of the United National Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1972, the world community's awareness that workable solutions to enviromental problems must be found has grown substantially. The contribution of UNEP to this process has been enormous. Twenty years on in June 1992, the "Earth Summit" (United Nations Conference on ...
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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