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Environmental Quality Objectives and Action Targets for Water Protection

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Since the presentation of the Report of the UN Commission for Environment and Development (Brundtland Report) in 1987 and the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 the concept of "sustainable development" has dominated the environmental debate world-wide. The 1994 Commission of Inquiry of the German Federal Parliament "Protection of Man and Environment" took up and further developed the concept with regard to basic principles for a policy on  chemical substances.

Series
Texte | 56/2000
Number of pages
4
Year of publication
January 2000
Author(s)
Ulrich Claussen, Dieter Cohors-Fresenborg, Ulrich Irmer, Heike Leonhardt, Christiane Markard, Bernd Mehlhorn, Hans-Werner Möller, Volker Mohaupt, Jörg Rechenberg, Eva Schmitz, Rüdiger Wolter
Abstract
Kurzfassung
Language
English
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
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 environmental quality criteria  water protection  environmental pollution  EC Water Framework Directive

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