OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Subtitle: Portugal 2001
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD environmental performance reviews; OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789264195721
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This review of Portugal'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.
Table of contents: title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; title: 1. Implementing Environmental Policies; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Objectives; title: Institutional and Legal Framework; title: Environmental Planning and Investment Programming; title: Regulatory Instruments; title: Economic Instruments; title: Other Instruments; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Development of Environmental Institutions; title: Enforcement of Environmental Regulations; title: Economic Instruments; title: 2. Air Management; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Objectives; title: Air Management; title: Integration of Air Pollution Objectives into Sectoral Policies; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Evoluation of National Air Emissions; title: Improvements in Urban Air Quality; title: Key Trends in the Transport Sector; title: Economic Signals: Pricing and Taxation; title: 3. Water Management; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Policy Objectives in the 1990s; title: Trends in the Use of Water Resources; title: Trends in Water Quality; title: Trends in Pressures on Water Quality; title: Achievements in Water Management Planning; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Irrigation Development and its Financing; title: Improving the Pricing of Water Services; title: Towards River Basin Management; title: 4. Waste Management; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Policy Objectives; title: Municipal Waste; title: Industrial Waste; title: Other Waste; title: Transboundary Movements of Waste; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Development of Legislation; title: National Plans; title: Elimination of Dumping; title: 5. Biodiversity; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Policy Objectives in the 1990s; title: Developing a Framework of Protected Areas; title: Biodiversity Conservation Outside Protected Areas; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: The State of Biodiversity in Portugal; title: Increasing Incentives for Environmentally Friendly Farming; title: Towards Sustainable Forest Management; title: PART II. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPEMENT; title: 6. Environmental-Economic Integration; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Decoupling Environmental Pressures from Economic Growth; title: Sustainable Development: Institutional Integration; title: Sustainable Development: Market-Based Integration; title: Environmental Expenditure; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Economic Context; title: EU Support Mechanisms; title: SMEs: Environmental Adjustments Contracts; title: 7. Environmental-Social Integration; title: -1. Evaluation of Peformance; title: Objectives; title: Environmental Awareness and Education; title: Environmental Democracy; title: Environmental Justice and Distribution; title: Environmental Employment; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Social Context; title: Environmental Information and Education: The Experience of IPAMB; title: Environmental Convergence and Spatial Development; title: 8. Sectoral Integration: Tourism; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Policy Objectives of the 1990s; title: Environmental Pressure from Tourism; title: Towards Environmentally Friendly Tourism; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: State of and Trends in the Tourism Sector; title: Eco-Tourism: The National Programme for Nature Tourism; title: Tourism in the Algarve; title: PART III. INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS; title: 9. International Cooperation; title: 1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Marine Issues; title: Climate Change; title: Other Global Issues; title: Liability and Compensation; title: Development Aid; title: Integration in Europe; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Bilateral Cooperation with Spain; title: Regional Issues: Transboundary Air Pollution; title: Annex IA. Selected Environmental Data; title: Annex IB. Selected Economic Data; title: Annex IC. Selected Social Data; title: Annex IIA. Selected Multinational Agreements (Worldwide); title: Annex IIB. Selected Multinational Agreements (Regional); title: Annex III. Chronology of Selected Environmental Events (1990-2001)