OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Australia 2007OECD Publishing, 2008 M03 19 - 304 pages OECD's periodic review of Australia's environmental policies and programmes. This edition reviews progress since the last review in 1998 and in relation to the 2001 OECD Environmental Strategy. It systematically examines environmental management (water, air, nature), sustainable development (environment-economy interface, environment-agriculture interface, environment-social interface) and international commitments. In each area, it makes a series of recommendations. |
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Page 14 - Tables: .. : not available - : nil or negligible . : decimal point Country Aggregates OECD Europe: All European Member countries of the OECD, ie countries of the European Union plus the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and Turkey.
Page 4 - Environmental performance is assessed with respect to a country's effort in reducing the overall pollution burden and managing natural resources within OECD countries, as well as integrating environmental and economic policies and strengthening co-operation within the international community. Environmental performance is assessed with regard to the degree of achievement of domestic objectives and international commitments. Such objectives and commitments may be broad aims, specific qualitative goals,...
Page 30 - The present chapter reviews progress in the last ten years, and particularly since the previous OECD Environmental Performance Review of 1998.
Page 4 - The primary goals for this programme are: - to help individual governments assess progress by establishing baseline conditions, trends, policy commitments, institutional arrangements and routine capabilities for carrying out national evaluations; - to promote environmental improvements and a continuous policy dialogue among Member countries, through a peer review process and by the transfer of information on policies, approaches and experiences of reviewed countries; and - to stimulate greater accountability...
Page 4 - Spain for its co-operation in expediting the provision of information and the organisation of the experts' mission to Spain, and in facilitating contacts with many individuals both inside and outside administrative and governmental structures.
Page 41 - Initiative seeks to achieve: • clear and nationally-compatible characteristics for secure water access entitlements; • transparent, statutory-based water planning; • statutory provision for environmental and other public benefit outcomes, and improved environmental management practices; • the return of all currently overallocated or overused systems to environmentallysustainable levels of extraction; • progressive removal of barriers to trade in water and meeting other requirements to facilitate...
Page 37 - to promote and co-ordinate effective planning and management for the equitable, efficient and sustainable use of the water, land and other environmental resources of the MurrayDarling Basin' (Murray-Darling Basin Agreement 1992, cl 1).
Page 16 - A number of recommendations are put forward that could contribute to strengthening the country's environmental performance.
Page 31 - Recommendations The following recommendations are part of the overall conclusions and recommendations of the environmental performance review of...
Page 37 - Most countries now have water resources management policies aimed at achieving sustainable use of their water resources by protecting and enhancing their quality while maintaining economic and social development.