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Environment - current issues Bhutan, in 34 editions.

The entry for Bhutan published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 7 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
7
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:
soil erosion; limited access to potable water
natural hazards:
  • violent storms coming down from the Himalayas are the source of the country's name which translates as Land of the Thunder Dragon;
  • frequent landslides during the rainy season
international agreements:
  • party to - Nuclear Test Ban;
  • signed,
  • but not ratified - Biodiversity,
  • Climate Change,
  • Law of the Sea

Rewritten: too little of the 1993 text remains to mark the changes.
current issues: soil erosion; limited access to potable water
natural hazards: violent storms coming down from the Himalayas are the
source of the country's name which translates as Land of the Thunder
Dragon; frequent landslides during the rainy season
international agreements: party to - Nuclear Test Ban; signed, but not
ratified - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Law of the Sea

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

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