OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Subtitle: France 2005
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD environmental performance reviews; OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789264009141
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This book presents the results of a peer review of France's environmental policies and programmes. It systematically looks at environmental management (air, water, biodiversty), sustainable development, and international commitments. This edition includes a sectoral chapter covering energy. The book presents specific conclusions and policy recommendations, and includes extensive statistical data.
Table of contents: title: 1. Conclusions and Recommendations; title: PART I. ENVIRIONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; title: 2. Air Management; title: Recommendations; title: Conclusions; title: 1. Objectives; title: Emission Trends; title: Air Quality Trends; title: Framework for Action; title: 3. Integrating Air Quality Concerns in the Transport Sector; title: 3. Water Management; title: 1. Water Management Objectives; title: 2. Quality Management; title: 3. Management of the Resource; title: 4. Enforcement of Regulations; title: 5. Basin-Based Management and Application of the User Pays and Polluter Pays Principles; title: 4. Nature and Biodiversity Management; title: 2. Biodiversity in Metropolitan France; title: 3. Landscapes; title: 4. Overseas Territories; title: 5. International Commitments; title: 6. Financing for Nature Conservation; title: PART II. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; title: 5. Environmental-Economic Interface; title: -Recommendations; title: 1. Sustainable Development; title: Decoupling Environmental Pressures from Economic Growth; title: Sustainable Development: Institutions and Strategy; title: Market-Based Integration; title: Sectoral and Institutional Integration; title: Environmental Expenditure and Competitiveness; title: 2. Environmental Management; title: Institutional Framework; title: Legislative and Regulatory Context; title: Enforcement of Enviromental Legislation; title: Economic Instruments; title: Voluntary Instruments; title: 6. Environmental-Social Interface; title: 1. Environment and Employment; title: 2. Access to Water and Electricity Services; title: 3. Environment and Health; title: 4. Environmental Democracy; title: 5. The French and the Environment: Perception, Knowledge, and Practice; title: 7. Sectoral Integration: Energy; title: 1. General Trends in the Sector and Environmental Impacts; title: 2. Energy Intensity and Efficiency and Decoupling; title: 3. Renewable Forms of Energy; title: 4. Environmental Management and Safety in Energy Production; title: 5. Institutional Integration; title: 6. Integration through the Market; title: PART III. INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS; title: 8. International Co-operation; title: 2. Climate Protection; title: 3. Transboundary Pollution; title: Air Pollution; title: Water Pollution; title: 4. Marine Pollution; title: 5. Conservation of Marine Resources; title: 6. International Trade and the Environment; title: 7. Financing of Development; title: References; title: -Selected Environmental Data; title: Selected Economic Data; title: Selected Social Data; title: Selected Multilateral Agreements (Worldwide and Regional); title: Abbreviations; title: Physical Context; title: Selected Environmental Events (1996-2004); title: Selected Environmental Web Sites