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Desertification
See also Water
World
Bank publications on dry land management and desertification
- Describes World Bank programs to mitigate land degradation and
desertification problems affecting more than one billion people in 100
countries.
United Nations
Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought ¿
This site was designed to facilitate the access to the official documents
maintained or received by the secretariat for participants as well as to
establish a general source of information on the topic of desertification
for the interested public.
UN
Convention to Combat Desertification ¿ Full
text of the convention with explanatory notes, a brief history and
ratification status report.
Disasters
Natural Disaster Reference
Database - NDRD is a bibliographic database on research, programs,
and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster
mitgation. The NDRD was compiled and abstracted from articles published
since 1981. Major sources for this database were the NASA RECON and ISI
Current Contents databases.
OECD, Radiation Protection
¿ information exchange, provision of safe practice guidelines and
evaluation of nuclear emergency preparedness
Virtual
Disaster Library - The Library was developed in November 1999, by
PAHO/WHO (Pan American Health Organization / Regional Office of the World
Health Organization). It contains over 250 publications of experiences,
ideas and solutions to advance the cause of disaster reduction.
World Health
Organization, ionizing radiation safety - Use of radioactive
isotopes in medical facilities and industrial installation means possible
hazards during production, transport, storage, use and waste disposal. WHO
reports on the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
Statistics
UNEP Global Resource Information
Database - Environmental Risk Assessment, disaster sites,
interactive maps.
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June 23, 2005
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