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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… width and height have been shown to have a positive effect on wave attenuation and shoreline stabilization … of people (UNESCO, 2008). This may have had a cascading effect on the Brahmaputra river system in Bangladesh, though … the Hydrological Risk Emergencies Plan. It was put into effect with integrated and preventive actions in order to …
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Global Mercury Assessment

… before emissions reductions begin to have a demonstrable effect on mercury levels throughout the environment and in … UN Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP). Th e report also drew on … UN Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) Convention groups; …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Handbook of working procedures and policy guidance for the Chemical Review Committee

… agreements – the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their … Risk of Persistent Organic Pollutants from Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. Relevant guidelines and … LD50 median lethal dose LOAEL lowest-observed-adverse-effect level LOEL lowest-observed-effect level m metre m.p. …
17 Jun 2026 Document

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

… to discern since they exist as averted costs. The combined effect is that it can be difficult to persuade hard stretched … agricultural production and increasing the risk of transboundary diseases. Adaptation responses include … out that the common pool problem remains because of the transboundary and shared nature of the resources with …
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Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit

… bodies of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their … evidence to prove a causal link between emissions and effect" (Kriebel et al., 2001). The precautionary principle … and society at large) to the entities producing it. In effect, it internalizes the cost of waste disposal into the …
17 Jun 2026 Document

Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… resilience, Oliver et al. (2015) mentioned the ‘insurance effect’ of higher diversity, which is relevant at both … that have been lost (Oliver et al., 2015). A similar effect can occur within species with, for example, different … (Ghestem et al., 2014). Stokes et al. Biodiversity type Effect on ecosystem Source Beta-diversity of fish communities …
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