Agrochemicals, health and environment: directory of resources
UNEP/Topham
Agrochemicals – health and environmental overview
This directory provides direct links to web-accessible resources on health and environment aspects of agrochemical management, organized into categories of relevance to policy-making. To move from topic to topic, please click on the keywords in the index. Direct links to agrochemicals-related web portals and programmes of the United Nations Environment Programme, World Health Organization, and other United Nations agencies are provided in Section 10 of the directory
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Buccini J. The global pursuit of the sound management of chemicals, part 1. Washington, DC, the World Bank, 2004.
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Buccini J. The global pursuit of the sound management of chemicals, part 2. Washington, DC, the World Bank, 2004.
http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/essd/envext.nsf/50ByDocName/ TheGlobalPursuitoftheSound ManagementofChemicalsPartTwo/$FILE/GlobalPursuitOfSoundManagementOfChemicals2004Pages68To83.pdf -
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Damstra T et al., eds. Global assessment of the state-of-the-science of endocrine disruptors. Geneva, UNEP/ILO/WHO International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) and World Health Organization, 2002 (WHO/PCS/EDC/02.2).
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Daniels JL, Olshan AF, Savitz DA. Pesticides and childhood cancers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1997, 105(10):1068–1077.
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Eskenazi B, Bradman A, Castorina R. Exposures of children to organophosphate pesticides and their potential adverse health effects. Environmental Health Perspectives Supplements, 1999, 107(S3):409–419.
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The GEO Yearbook 2003, emerging challenges. The nitrogen cascade. Nairobi, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2003: 56-59.
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Goldman L, Tran N. Toxics and poverty: the impact of toxic substances on the poor in developing countries. Washington, DC, World Bank, 2002.
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Gorman S, Tynan L. Persistant organic pollutants – a legacy of environmental harm and threats to health. Washington, DC, World Bank, May 2003 (World Bank Environment Strategy Series No. 6).
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Kannan K et al. Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in foodstuffs from Asian and oceanic countries. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 1997, 152:1–55.
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Konradsen F et al. Missing deaths from pesticide self-poisoning at the IFCS Forum IV. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2005, 83(2):157–158.
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Pontius J, Dilts R, Bartlett A. From farmer field schools to community IPM: ten years of training in Asia. Jakarta, FAO Community IPM Programme, 2000.
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Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH). A searchable database containing overviews of scientific literature in the field of children's environmental health. Washington, DC, United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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Toxicology and environmental health: TOXNET. A cluster of databases on toxicology and hazardous chemicals, including pesticides, gateways to search engines for both research literature on health impacts, and guidance/policymaking materials. Bethesda, Maryland, USA, National Library of Medicine.
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Yáñez L et al. Overview of human health and chemical mixtures: problems facing developing countries. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2002, 110(S6):901–909.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2002/suppl-6/901-909yanez/ehp110s6p901.pdf