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The Role of the WMO in Enviromental Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

David Arthur Davies
David Arthur Davies
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David Arthur Davies is secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization.
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. By definition it is concerned with the atmosphere and atmospheric processes and, hence, with the human environment, for whatever definition of the human environment may be adopted, the atmosphere is clearly one of its essential elements. Many atmospheric processes are intimately, indeed inextricably, related to processes and phenomena the study of which falls within the compass of other geophysical disciplines — notably hydrology and oceanography. The WMO has therefore certain responsibilities in these fields also, and as a result its interest in the human environment is somewhat wider than its title may suggest.

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Part 3. International Institutions: Their Present and Potential Roles
Information
International Organization , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , Spring 1972 , pp. 327 - 336
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1972

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References

1 UN Document A/CONF. 48/12.

2 See General Assembly Resolution 1721 C (XVI), of December 20, 1961.

3 WMO Resolution 16 (VI), paragraph 9, of April 1971.