e, soil erosion and hazard management, and the way in which those assessments are fed into policy decision-making process. Each study focuses on a major area of concern for the selected country and analyses the use of different methodologies and policies for addressing the problem, the coordination and monitoring mechanisms devised, and the capacity of the various agencies in the assessment of trade-offs between environmental concerns and economic development objectives.
Four volumes of the country studies available in this site:
Integrating environmental considerations into economic policy making processes; background readings
This CD-ROM publication represents only a fraction of the effort put into the project. The secretariat would like to express its appreciation to all of the country consultants, including the whose papers appear here. The Government of Japan has been very generous in providing funding for the project.
Agenda 21, The United Nations Programme of Action from Rio. (United Nations publication, Sales No.E. 93.I.11, 1994)
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our common future (The Brundtland Report), (Oxford University Press, New York, 1987) (United Nations Publication, Sales No. E.93.I.11, 1944)