This publication reports on a case study conducted under the auspices of UN-Energy — the United Nations’ principal inter-agency mechanism in the field of energy. It analyses alternative policy options for increasing the share of renewables in the energy supply mix of Sichuan, China. Combining IAEA models for analysing national energy systems with data provided by UNEP, UN-DESA and other public sources, this study provides generic insights on policy options and demonstrates the kind of energy policy activities that UN-Energy can undertake. While the results are only illustrative with respect to the specific energy situation of Sichuan, they do suggest that all renewable energy policies tested in this least cost analysis can lead to an increase in investments in renewable energy technologies and an increase in the contribution of renewable energy to the total energy supply.

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. A first of its kind, this book takes a generic, comprehensive and global approach in describing the principles and practice of SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of economic importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for SIT. A great variety of subjects are covered in a balanced way, from the history of SIT to the prospects for its future application. The major sections discuss the principles, technical components and application. The four main strategic options in using SIT - suppression, containment, prevention and eradication - with examples of each option, are described in detail. Other sections deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental and management considerations, and the impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate SIT. This book provides a wealth of information and reference material never before available in one volume. It will be a standard reference on the subject for many years. The authors, from 19 countries, are highly experienced in the subject, and reflect the international character of SIT activities. Since no university offers courses on SIT, the book’s audience will be mainly students in general animal and plant health courses, but the in-depth reviews of all aspects of SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes will greatly assist researchers, teachers, and animal and plant health practitioners.

INIS Atomindex is a semi-monthly abstracting journal prepared by computer electronic publishing from the INIS Database on magnetic tape. It is printed on a high resolution laser printer. The bulk of the information contained in the magnetic tapes is present in INIS Atomindex. The major exception to this are the subject descriptors, whose main purpose is for online searching. These are omitted from all INIS Atomindex entries that are accompanied by abstracts, for which entries only the key descriptors are printed.
Each issue of INIS Atomindex contains bibliographic descriptions, descriptors and, usually, abstracts for all items recorded in the system, namely books, research reports, patents, journal articles, conference papers, etc. About 80 000 references per year are grouped by subject categories. Each issue includes a personal author index, a corporate entry index, a report, standard and patent number index, a subject index, and two conference indexes by date and place. The references are in English with the titles also given in the original language - transliterated where necessary. The abstracts are printed in English and may, in addition, appear in French, Russian or Spanish, the other official languages of the IAEA. Twenty-four issues are published per year, cumulative indexes are published annually. The first issue of each year includes a list of the journals regularly scanned for in-scope articles.

INIS Atomindex is a semi-monthly abstracting journal prepared by computer electronic publishing from the INIS Database on magnetic tape. It is printed on a high resolution laser printer. The bulk of the information contained in the magnetic tapes is present in INIS Atomindex. The major exception to this are the subject descriptors, whose main purpose is for online searching. These are omitted from all INIS Atomindex entries that are accompanied by abstracts, for which entries only the key descriptors are printed.
Each issue of INIS Atomindex contains bibliographic descriptions, descriptors and, usually, abstracts for all items recorded in the system, namely books, research reports, patents, journal articles, conference papers, etc. About 80 000 references per year are grouped by subject categories. Each issue includes a personal author index, a corporate entry index, a report, standard and patent number index, a subject index, and two conference indexes by date and place. The references are in English with the titles also given in the original language - transliterated where necessary. The abstracts are printed in English and may, in addition, appear in French, Russian or Spanish, the other official languages of the IAEA. Twenty-four issues are published per year, cumulative indexes are published annually. The first issue of each year includes a list of the journals regularly scanned for in-scope articles.