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Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific

… now face declining environmental quality and decreasing local reserves of some local resources such as fish. Efforts to control these … to employ dedicated natural resource economists in their administration. In any event, there are few trained resource …
17 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention

… with economies in transition need to meet the global and local waste challenge. III. Waste is a global issue Because … and other wastes around the world, waste is not merely a local or national issue, it is a global issue. In the past … or were randomly burned, or left to rot, contaminating the local water supply and BASEL CONVENTION the world …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Recycling used lead-acid batteries: health considerations (WHO)

… in the sandy soil over time. Around October 2007, some local residents realised that the accumulated lead in the … homes. An investigative mission was sent to work with the local health authorities in investigating the deaths. For … 2004; CEC, 2016). The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration provides information about engineering and …
17 Jun 2026 Document

Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)

… chemical pollution, which can be of limited useto local hot spots, as in the example of the pesticide … instead looking at ecosystem impacts and regional and local boundaries. The question would then be how to translate the local/regional data to the global level. Another and related …
17 Jun 2026 Document