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To establish, develop, operate and maintain for the benefit of the people of the United States an educational and scientific center in the form of a tropical botanical garden or gardens, together with such facilities as libraries, herbaria, laboratories and museums which are appropriate and necessary for encouraging and conducting research in basic and applied tropical botany.

The integration of CBDRM into socio-economic development should be seen as a process, which needs to be conceived as part of the three phases of disaster management project: initiating, preparing and implementing phases.

The Earth's biological resources are vital to humanity's economic and social development. As a result there is a growing recognition that biological diversity is a global asset of tremendous value to present and future generations.

This publication presents amendments to the SOLAS convention and the 1988 Protocol concerning, in part of : Goal-based ship construction standards for bulk carriers and oil tankers. Corrosion protection of cargo oil tanks of crude oil carriers. Gas measurements and detection in double hull and double bottom spaces. Life-saving appliances and arrangements. The automatic identification system.

Given the use of a wide range of board spectrum pesticides some of which in the past were POPs it is still important that the levels of pollution and contamination of environments with these toxic chemicals should be effectively monitored.