OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Subtitle: United States 2005
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD environmental performance reviews; OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789264013179
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This book presents OECD assessments and recommendations regarding the United States' efforts to manage its environment including air, water, nature, and biodiversity; to do this in a sustainable manner; and to do this in co-operation with its global neighbours. In particular, it assesses progress made since 1996, when OECD's previous review on the US was done.
Table of contents: title: 1.Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Part I. Environmental Management; title: 2. Air Management; title: 3. Water Management; title: 4. Nature and Biodiversity Management; title: Part II. Sustainable Development; title: 5. Environmental-Economic Interface; title: 6. Environmental-Social Interface; title: 7. Health and Environment; title: Part III. International Commitments; title: 8. International Co-operation; title: Co-operation at the Global Level; title: Co-operation with Canada; title: Co-operation with Mexico; title: Regional Co-operation; title: References; title: -Selected Environmental Data; title: Selected Economic Data; title: Selected Social Data; title: Selected Multilateral Agreements (Worldwide); title: Selected Multilateral Agreements (Regional); title: Abbreviations; title: Physical Context; title: Selected Environmental Web Sites