OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Subtitle: Spain 2004
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD environmental performance reviews; OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789264108639
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This review of Spain’s environmental performance takes stock of Spain’s environmental performance since the last review done in 1997.  It finds that despite substantial increases in GDP, tourism, construction, population density in coastal areas, and road freight transport, progress has been made in decoupling some environmental pressures from economic growth and in developing environmental infrastructure.  Nevertheless, Spain faces important challenges related to high energy intensity, high water use intensity, and increasing CO2 emissions and municipal waste.  This report makes 46 recommendations to help strengthen Spain’s environmental performance in the context of sustainable development.
Table of contents: title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Air Management; title: Water Management; title: Nature and Biodiversity Management; title: Environmental-Economic Interface; title: The Environmental-Social Interface; title: Sectorial Integration; title: International Co-operation; title: References.