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Industrial pollution inventory and management in Nepal

Autor
Devkota S.R., Koirala B., Gautum C.
Título de serie
Industry and Environment | Vol. 19(1); 37 - 42; 6 p.
Fecha
1996
Fuente
IUCN (ID: ANA-058420)
Editor | Lugar de publicación
UNEP / Industry and Environment Programme Activity Centre | Paris, France
Idioma
Inglés
País/Territorio
Nepal
Materia
Medio ambiente gen.
Palabra clave
Control de la contaminación Monitoreo
Resumen

This article shows how Nepal, a relatively small and littlee - developed country, is applying up-to-date tools and thinking to assess the pattern and sources of industrial pollution, and is creating legislation in light of the information obtained. To develop an industrial pollution inventory, emission factors taken from US EPA and WHO publications were used with figures from Nepal's 1992 census of industrial units with ten or more employees