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Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention
… the atmospheric contamination contributes to respiratory disease. Mercury containing hospital products that are … substances, in particular asbestos, which can cause lung disease. The poor, and particularly women, children and the … are ambitious, and include curbing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and …
Waste management for human health and livelihood
… Development Goals (MDGs), to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and … healthier. In some countries, more than one third of the disease burden could be prevented through environmental … main victims and make up 74% of deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory infections. Low income …
Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs
… limits the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes in accordance … limits the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes in accordance … and use of DDT for controlling mosquitoes and other disease vectors in accordance with World Health Organization …
Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with mercury or mercury compounds
… Minamata City, Japan, National Institute for Minamata Disease, Ministry of the Environment, Japan, pp. 73-84. … Minamata City Hall, 2000. “Minamata Disease - History and Message”, Minamata Disease Museum, Minamata City, Japan. Ministry of …
Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with the pesticides aldrin, alpha hexachlorocyclohexane, beta hexachlorocyclohexane, chlordane, chlordecone, dieldrin, e
… Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, August 2005. UNIDO, 2009. Perfluorooctane …