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Sources, Effects and Risks of Ionizing Radiation, UNSCEAR 2013 Report, Part I: Levels and Effects of Radiation Exposure due to the Nuclear Accident after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

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SOURCES, EFFECTS AND RISKS OF IONIZING RADIATION

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UNSCEAR 2013 Report

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This publication, the first of two volumes of scientific annexes, provides a detailed review of scientific material that underpins the Committee’s evaluation of the radiation doses and effects due to the accident which occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station on 11 March 2011. It covers the amount and composition of radioactive material released to the environment, the pattern of dispersion and deposition of the radioactive material over land and sea, the radiation doses received by the general public and workers, the radiation effects on the environment, the radioactivity in food, and the implications of the radiation exposures for human health and the environment.

Volume I REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SCIENTIFIC ANNEX A: Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 great east-Japan earthquake and tsunami

ISBN 978-92-1-142291-7

Publication Date: November 2014 ISBN: 9789211422917

Pages: 318 Price: $60.00

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Abortion Policies and Reproductive Health Around the World United Nations

Abortion Policies and Reproductive Health around the World

This report provides up-to-date information on government policies on abortion and related reproductive health issues for all 193 Member States, 2 Observer States and 2 non-member States of the United Nations. The report provides changes between 1996 and 2013 on legal grounds on which induced abortion is permitted in each country. Seven critical legal grounds for abortion are included. It also includes the latest available information on government policies and programmes related to fertility, family planning, access to reproductive health services, and maternal mortality. In addition, this report provides information on how abortion policies are associated with selected reproductive health indicators.

ISBN 978-92-1-151521-3

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division

Publication Date: December 2014 ISBN: 9789211515213

Pages: 48 Price: $18.00

Latin America and the Caribbean Demographic Observatory 2013: Population Projections United Nations

This issue of the Demographic Observatory presents estimates and projections of the population of the 20 countries of Latin America, for the period of 1950 to 2100. The figures contained in this publication are a revision of those presented in the Demographic Observatory No. 13. From this edition, Demographic Observatory will follow a standard format containing information that will be updated annually and were prepared by CELADE-Population Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Publication Date: January 2015 ISBN: 9789211218589

1-056535-6 -P ons, 2014

TEL: 1 703 661 1571

Pages: 142 Price: $25.00

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