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Environment - current issues Barbados, in 34 editions.

The entry for Barbados published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 5 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
5
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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1995 edition

Rewritten since 1993

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Published as “Environment”

current issues:
  • pollution of coastal waters from waste disposal by ships;
  • soil erosion;
  • illegal solid waste disposal threatens contamination of aquifers
natural hazards:
hurricanes (especially June to October); periodic landslides
international agreements:
  • party to - Climate Change,
  • Endangered Species,
  • Law of the Sea,
  • Marine Dumping,
  • Ozone Layer Protection,
  • Ship Pollution;
  • signed,
  • but not ratified - Biodiversity

Rewritten: too little of the 1993 text remains to mark the changes.
current issues: pollution of coastal waters from waste disposal by
ships; soil erosion; illegal solid waste disposal threatens
contamination of aquifers
natural hazards: hurricanes (especially June to October); periodic
landslides
international agreements: party to - Climate Change, Endangered
Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Barbados: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/barbados/environment-current-issues.

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