International Housing: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 275 pages |
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... Conference on the Human Environment____ Federal Home Loan Bank Board , statement of Preston Martin , Chairman__ Foundation for Cooperative Housing , statement of Wallace J. Campbell , president 193 Housing and Urban Development ...
... Conference on the Human Environment____ Federal Home Loan Bank Board , statement of Preston Martin , Chairman__ Foundation for Cooperative Housing , statement of Wallace J. Campbell , president 193 Housing and Urban Development ...
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... Conference on the Human Environment____ Federal Home Loan Bank Board , statement of Preston Martin , Chairman__ Foundation for Cooperative Housing , statement of Wallace J. Campbell , president 193 Housing and Urban Development ...
... Conference on the Human Environment____ Federal Home Loan Bank Board , statement of Preston Martin , Chairman__ Foundation for Cooperative Housing , statement of Wallace J. Campbell , president 193 Housing and Urban Development ...
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... Conference on the Human Environment scheduled to be held early next month in Stockholm . It is probably too late to affect the position papers already prepared for this conference , but it would be well to have for the record any ...
... Conference on the Human Environment scheduled to be held early next month in Stockholm . It is probably too late to affect the position papers already prepared for this conference , but it would be well to have for the record any ...
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... Conference . I think it will be most helpful to all of us . Thank you very much . Thank you , Carl . Mr. COAN ( presiding ) . We will have a brief interlude here until such time as Senator Proxmire arrives , and maybe Senator Cranston ...
... Conference . I think it will be most helpful to all of us . Thank you very much . Thank you , Carl . Mr. COAN ( presiding ) . We will have a brief interlude here until such time as Senator Proxmire arrives , and maybe Senator Cranston ...
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... Conference , the Department of Housing and Urban Development is concerned that the modest , but competent programs of the existing United Nations Center on Hous- ing , Building , and Planning not be lost in the process . The programs of ...
... Conference , the Department of Housing and Urban Development is concerned that the modest , but competent programs of the existing United Nations Center on Hous- ing , Building , and Planning not be lost in the process . The programs of ...
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action activities agencies ANNEX appropriate BARUCH Building and Planning capital Central African Republic CHAIRMAN cities COAN Conference congestion consideration construction cooperative housing costs developing countries economic effective employment Eric Carlson existing facilities field funds governments guarantee program Home Loan Bank Housing and Urban housing programs Human Environment human settlements IBRD impact important improvement income increase infrastructure institutions international housing investment John Sparkman Latin America lending loan associations major ment migration million municipal natural disasters organizations particularly patterns percent policies pollution population growth priority projects proposed recommended regional responsible Rural Housing savings and loan Secretary-General sector self-help Senator PROXMIRE Senegal sewerage social Stockholm technical assistance tion towns Uganda UNDP United Kingdom United Nations system urban areas urban centers urban development urban growth urban land urban population Venezuela water supply WIECZOROWSKI World Bank
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Page 252 - States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Page 252 - States should adopt an integrated and co-ordinated approach to their development planning so as to ensure that development is compatible with the need to protect and improve the human environment for the benefit of their population.
Page 252 - States shall co-operate to develop further the international law regarding liability and compensation for the victims of pollution and other environmental damage caused by activities within the jurisdiction or control of such States to areas beyond their jurisdiction.
Page 252 - Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being, and he bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations.
Page 252 - States shall take all possible steps to prevent pollution of the seas by substances that are liable to create hazards to human health, to harm living resources and marine life, to damage amenities or to interfere with other legitimate uses of the sea.
Page 257 - Increase the capability of the United Nations system to provide awareness and advance warning of deleterious effects to human health and well-being from man-made pollutants...
Page 236 - Identify, wherever possible, an existing agency within the United Nations system as the principal focal point for initiating and co-ordinating research in each principal area and, where there are competing claims, establish appropriate priorities...
Page 257 - Secretary-General take steps to ensure that the appropriate United Nations agencies shall assist the developing countries to plan for the inflow of visitors into their protected areas in such a way as to reconcile revenue and environmental considerations within the context of the recommendations approved by the Conference. The other international organizations concerned may likewise make their contribution.
Page 265 - Organized by the Committee on Housing. Building and Planning of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and Held in the Hague, at the Invitation of the Government of the Netherlands.
Page 252 - Having considered the need for a common outlook and for common principles to inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment...