February 18, 2016 Professor Gio Batta Gori Editor, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 525B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA. Professor Gori, We are writing on behalf of four associations to express our regret and concern regarding the comments made towards the crop protection industry in the December 2015 commentary by Bergman et al. (2015) entitled “Manufacturing Doubt Ab...

The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors. The illustrations of the cover page are from the WHO photo library. III Preface T his book is part of a World Health Organization (WHO) series on teaching material and provides an introduction to the basic principles and methods of human exposure assessment. It constitutes a complement to Basic Epi...

with comments received from OSCE, UNEP, UNDP and members of the project steering committee. The contents do not necessarily reflect the views of UNEP, UNDP or OSCE.ABSTRACT Consensus is emerging that cooperative and effective management of natural resources, and national, regional, and international security, are closely linked. For this reason, UNEP, UNDP and OSCE have initiated a process to b...

Ecosystems of the Azerbaijan Republic have a lot unique characteristics that demand special focus in context environmental protection. Taking into account their importance, it is necessary to apply whole potential international cooperation including institutional dimension. The purpose article describe participation activities United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Council Europe and Co...

1. At its eighth meeting, in decision VIII/19 A.(4), the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to complete the assessment on unauthorized harvesting of fauna (including bushmeat) as proposed in document UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/INF/12. Pursuant to this decision, and as a contribution to the in-depth review of the programme of work on forest biodiversity, the Executive Secretary ...

Max. 2000 characters)The report describes the work of theSystems Analysis Department at RisøNational Laboratory during 1997. Thedepartment is undertaking research withinEnergy Systems Analysis, Integrated Energy,Environment and Development Planning –UNEP Centre, Industrial Safety and Reliabilityand Man/Machine Interaction. The reportincludes lists of publicat...

Decision 14.78 (Rev. CoP15) directs the Secretariat to produce an updated analysis of MIKE data, and invites TRAFFIC to submit an updated analysis of ETIS data, UNEP-WCMC to provide an overview of the latest elephant trade data and the IUCN/SSC African and Asian Elephant Specialist Groups to submit new and relevant information on the conservation status of elephants, and on pertinent conservati...

ometime in the early-to-mid-1980s national park and protected area planning entered a different phase or paradigm. A broad threshold was reached where the theory, methods, and practice of protected area planning and management re-arranged themselves into what is essentially a new framework that is still evolving (IUCN/UNEP/WWF 1991; McNeely 1993; Nelson and Serafin 1997; Sportza 1999). This shi...