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Mostafa K. Tolba
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United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
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Osama A. El-Kholy
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Cairo University, Egypt
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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The Issues
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 5-31
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 33-59
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 61-81
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 83-103
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 105-130
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 131-155
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 157-182
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 183-214
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 215-245
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 247-275
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Causes and Consequences
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Front Matter
Pages 277-279
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 281-320
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 321-371
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 373-403
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 405-447
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 449-471
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 473-503
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- Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
Pages 505-527
About this book
Our planet is under siege. Assaults on the atmosphere -the greenhouse effect, the depletion of the ozone layer and increasing air pollution - pose a still unquantified threat to human life. The dumping of hazardous wastes, and land based sources of pollution, present a similar threat to the oceans. On land we are destroying a tropical forest the size of Austria every year, and more than a hundred species of wild plants and animals are lost forever each day. When the General Assembly of the United Nations established UNEP it charged us with reporting on the changing state of the world's environment, tracking the underlying causes of change, and working with governments to develop responses to those changes. Every year since 1974, UNEP has produced a State of the Environment report, focusing on one or more emerging environmental issues and always stressing the human factor -the impact of environmental quality on people and society. Three times since its inception (1982, 198 7 and 1992) UNEP has undertaken a more wide-ranging study. The results of the present study are the most disturbing of the three. However, not all the signs are negative. Throughout the 19 70s and into the 1980s, UNEP was able to report progress in some important areas. Environmental monitoring capacity was being rapidly improved in many parts of the world, and Ministries of the Environment were being set up in an attempt to deal with environmental threats in a more coherent way.
Editors and Affiliations
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United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Mostafa K. Tolba
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Cairo University, Egypt
Osama A. El-Kholy