Stories
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How can we prevent violence?
Evidence shows that strategies to prevent some types of violence can be very effective, while other, less well-acknowledged forms continue unabated. But hope can still guide us into a more peaceful future.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
Catalogue
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Global environment outlook 2000 / United Nations Environment Programme ; foreword by Klaus Töpfer.
Date: 2002- Books
Needs and specifications for an information resource for the release of organisms into the environment (IRRO) : proceedings of a UNEP/MSDN workshop held in Vienna, Austria, and Rockville, MD, USA, 11-15 March 1991 / editors, B.E. Kirsop and M.I. Krichevsky ; participating-supporting organisations, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [and others].
Date: 1991- Books
Nonionizing radiation protection / edited by Michael J. Suess ; supported by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Date: 1982- Books
German technology for environmental protection : technical equipment and materials / German Committee for the United Nations Environment Programme.
United Nations Environment Programme. German Committee.Date: 1990- Books
World resources, 1998-99 : a guide to the global environment environmental change and human health / a joint publication by the World Resources Institute, the United Nations Environment Programme; the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank.
Date: [1998], ©1998