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Category : Organic compounds
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
National Implementation Plan Under the Stockholm Convention on POPs for Sri Lanka
Preliminary Inventory of POPs Pesticides in Sri Lanka
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Category : Persistent pollutants
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Global Approaches to Site Contamination Law
Author: Elizabeth BrandonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940075745X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The book describes the complex and variable laws addressing site contamination, reviewing existing international, regional and national law of relevance to site contamination. It also offers detailed case studies of national approaches to the issue, and goes on to explore avenues for promoting the development of comprehensive domestic laws on site contamination, with a focus on the role of international law and actors. A detailed discussion analyzes such variations as a binding international legal instrument, a non-binding instrument, and a model framework for site contamination management. The text includes recommendations regarding the key elements needed for regulating site contamination at the national level. The author also offers an appropriate and feasible timetable for international action to promote better national law and policy regarding contaminated sites.
Paradigm Shift in E-waste Management
Author: Abhijit DasPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000568571
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Paradigm Shift in E-waste Management: Vision for the Future addresses the challenges in the management of electronic wastes in various forms. The book describes resource-efficient and circular e-waste management processes including valorization amalgamating the sustainable benefits of electronic component recycling, industrial symbiosis, green technology implementation, and efficient supply chain networks with a vision towards year 2025. It further explains e-waste recycling technologies, supply chain aspects, e-waste disposal in IT industries, and trans-boundary movement issues including policy concerns supported by global case studies and benchmark practices. Further, the book illustrates resource recovery from e-waste, sustainability of e-waste recycling, circular economy in e-waste and so forth. Features: Covers intricacies of e-waste management with an outlook towards a checkpoint of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2025. Describes the global status of e-waste recycling and management with country-specific contributions. Includes focus on policy tools such as EPR, ARF, policy gaps, and the informal sector activities. Offers detailed information about advanced green and smart technologies for e-waste valorization and management. Explores urban mining, sustainability, and circular economic approaches. This book is of interest to graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering, waste management, urban mining, circular economy, waste processing, electronics and telecommunication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, and chemical engineering.
Preliminary Inventory of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Sri Lanka
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Category : Persistent pollutants
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Austria 2013
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264202927
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This report is the third OECD review of Austria’s environmental performance. The report evaluates Austria's progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on chemicals management and climate change adaptation.
Directory of Environmental Expertise in Sri Lanka
Author: Water
Author: UnescoPublisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9231040065
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
This illustrated report sets out a global review of the state of the world's freshwater resources, based on the collective work of 24 United Nations agencies, following on from the conclusions of the first UN World Water Development Report 'Water for People, Water for Life' published in 2003 (ISBN 9231038818). This second edition discusses progress towards the water-related targets of the UN Millennium Development Goals and examines a range of key issues including population growth and increasing urbanisation, changing ecosystems, food production, health, industry and energy, as well as risk management, valuing and paying for water and increasing knowledge and capacity. It contains 16 case studies which consider key challenges in water resource management and makes a number of recommendations to guide future action and encourage sustainable use, productivity and management of our increasingly scarce freshwater resources.
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