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Volume 27 No.2-3
April - September 2004
Pages: 88 pages
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Managing the risks of chemicals

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• Editorial: Balancing the benefits of chemicals with their health and environmental risks
• The chemical industry and international cooperation to manage chemical risks: facts and figures
• Global strategy on chemicals management: opportunities and risks - by Rainer Koch
• The Rotterdam Convention: why is it here and what is it trying to achieve? - by William Murray and Sheila Logan
• A science-based strategy for chemicals control - by Sven Ove Hansson and Christina Rudén
• The precautionary principle and EU chemicals policy - by Mary Taylor
• Integrated chemical management: dream or reality in the developing world? - by Laurraine H. Lotter
• The Montreal Protocol: lessons for successful international chemicals management
• The future of pesticide use in world agriculture - by J.D. Knight
• Mexico's success in eliminating chlordane within a regional cooperation framework - by Mario Yarto
• Effects of an environmental tax on pesticides in Mexico - by Carlos Muñoz Piña and Sara Avila Forcada
• The Africa Stockpiles Programme: cleaning up obsolete pesticides;contributing to a healthier future - by Clifton Curtis and Cynthia Palmer Olsen
• The evolution of Canada's approach to minimizing environmental and health risks from mercury - by Wanda M.A. Hoskin
• Cleaner production in the Indian dye and dye intermediate industry: a successful preventive environmental management strategy for waste minimization and resource conservation - by P.K. Gupta and S. Kalathiappan
• Implementation of Design for the Environment (DFE) in a Mexican chemical group - by Margarita Ferat
• A Danish company's use of Best Available Techniques for waste handling and treatment - by Vagn S. Christiansen, Lennart Scherman, Per Kjærgaard and Per Andreasen
• Shipbreaking and e-waste: the international trade in hazardous waste continues - by Kevin Stairs
• Safer road transportation of hazardous material in India: TransAPELL in practice - by Krishan C. Gupta
• Transparency and communities' right-to-know: working towards better disaster management through the OECD - by Marie-Chantal Huet

Other Topics

• Financial sustainability at a National Cleaner Production Centre: the experience of the Honduras NCPC - by Mily Cortés Posas and Nonita T. Yap
• Developing a consistent approach to estimating greenhouse gas emissions for the petroleum industry - by Susann Nordrum, Christopher P. Loreti, Mike McMahon and Karin Ritter
  

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