OECD Environmental Performance Reviews [electronic resource] : Ireland 2000
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2000.
This review of Ireland's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. The analyses presented are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Foreword""; ""General Introduction""; ""Outline of the Report""; ""Detailed Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Abbreviations and Signs""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Signs""; ""Country Aggregates""; ""Currency""; ""Cut off Date""; ""List of Team Members""; ""Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""1. Implementing Environmental Policies""; ""Improving the cost-effectiveness of environmental policies and strengthening environmental infras...""; ""Water""; ""Air""; ""Waste""; ""2. Towards Sustainable Development""; ""Integrating environmental concerns in economic decisions""
""Towards sustainable transport""""3. International Co-operation""; ""1. The context""; ""1. The Physical Context""; ""Figure 1.1  Map of Ireland""; ""2. The Human Context""; ""3. The Economic Context""; ""Figure 1.2  Economic structure and trends""; ""4. The Institutional Context""; ""Central environmental administration""; ""Table 1.1  Fiscal revenues, 1997""; ""Figure 1.3  Organisational chart of the Department of the Environment and local Government""; ""Environmental responsibilities of local authorities""; ""5. Environmental Legislation""
""Table 1.2  Selected legislation relating to the environment""""Part I. Pollution Prevention and Control""; ""2. Water Management""; ""1. Current Situation and Trends""; ""Freshwater resources""; ""Water quality""; ""Figure 2.1 Water resources""; ""Figure 2.2 Water use, late 1990s""; ""Pressures on water resources""; ""Pressures on water quantities""; ""Pressures on water quality""; ""Table 2.1  Main sources of pollution of rivers and streams, 1997""; ""2. Responses""; ""Legal and institutional framework""; ""Figure 2.3 Agricultural inputs, 1997""; ""Figure 2.4 Livestock a density, 1999""
""Objectives""""Regulatory instruments""; ""Discharge permits""; ""Strategic and management plans""; ""Monitoring""; ""Economic instruments""; ""Table 2.2  Water prices, 1998""; ""Funding and expenditure""; ""3. Environmental Performance""; ""Water quantity""; ""Drinking water supply""; ""Water quality and aquatic ecosystems""; ""Environmental conditions and trends""; ""Cost-effectiveness and instruments""; ""Financing present and future efforts""; ""Figure 2.5  Population connected to public waste water treatment plant, late 1990s""
""Table 2.3  Population connected to public waste water treatment plant""""3. Air Management""; ""1. Air Pollution Situation and Trends""; ""Emissions of atmospheric pollutants""; ""Figure 3.1 Air pollutant emissions""; ""Figure 3.2 Energy structure and intensity""; ""Ambient air quality""; ""Table 3.1  Ambient air quality limits applied in Ireland""; ""2. Responses""; ""Objectives""; ""Measures to prevent and control air pollution""; ""Regulatory measures""; ""Economic instruments""; ""Monitoring and reporting""; ""Investment and expenditure for air pollution prevention and control""
""Air quality management and the energy sector""
This review of Ireland's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. The analyses presented are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data.
Environmental management -- Ireland.
Environmental policy -- Ireland.
Environmental protection -- Ireland.
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