Monitoring environmental progress : a report on work in progress /

Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank. Environmentally Sustainable Development, c1995
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Introduction: Making environmental data useful to policymakers
  • 1. Can we save the forest while using the trees?
  • 2. What do we know about biodiversity?
  • 3. How can we monitor air and water?
  • 4. Are we using resources efficiently?
  • 5. What role do taxes and subsidies play?
  • 6. Are we sharing the burden of reducing climate risks?
  • 7. Are we saving enough for the future?
  • 8 Where is the wealth of nations?
  • 9. How have the poor fared?
  • Appendix: Technical notes
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Boxes.