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Asian Environment Outlook 2001

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The people of Asia and the Pacific are paying a heavy toll for the region's environmental degradation—in human health and economic terms. But the environmental decline can be stopped.

The Asian Environment Outlook 2001 (AEO) provides the blueprint for doing that.

AEO

• provides in-depth policy analyses of salient environmental issues common to many of ADB's developing member countries – DMCs
• presents the results of analyses of past economic development policies and their impacts on the environment
• provides a set of entry points as a framework to improve the environmental performance and help reduce poverty in the Asia and Pacific region
• recommends specific actions to policymakers for achieving environmentally sustainable development
• provides insight into the state of the environment in the Asia and Pacific region: rapid environmental degradation, associated poverty issues, and lack of political will to remedy environmental issues are of continuing serious concern
• describes a situation of:
  • continuing environmental degradation
  • unhealthy air and water condition
  • escalating demands for energy and other resource inputs
  • increasing certainty that climate change and other global environmental problems will have substantial negative impacts upon the region
• examines the driving forces that underlie this pattern of environmental decline
• identifies opportunities within the region to shift the trajectory of economic development to a pathway that is more environmentally sustainable

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Contents

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Preface [ PDF: 25kb | 2 pages ]

Acknowledgements [ PDF: 29kb | 3 pages ]

Abbreviations and Acronyms [ PDF: 20kb | 1 page ]

Executive Summary [ PDF: 39kb | 5 pages ]

1. The Changing Environment

   Economic Transformation
   State of the Environment in the Region
   

   Land and Forests
   Water Resources
   Air Quality
   Urban Population
   

   Counting the Toll
   Looking Ahead

2. Driving Forces of Change

   Population Explosion
   Urbanization and Industrialization
   Income Growth and Inequality
   Technological Changes
   Governance
   Institutions, Policy, and the Market
   Toward Sustainable Development

3. Options and Opportunities

   Adoption of Proven Policy Alternatives
   Development Investment Opportunities
   New Urban-Industrial Investment Opportunities
   Development and Deployment of New Technologies
   Advances in Energy Use and Supply
   Strengthening the Societal Drivers of Improved Environmental Performance
   

   Civil Society and Public Pressure
   Globalization and Environment
   Courts
   Enhanced Inclusive Governance and Institutional Reform
   Regional and International Governance
   Building Opportunities for Policy Integration

4. Toward Policy Integration

   Mounting Pressure for Policy Responses
   Policy Integration
   Entry Points for Policy Integration
   Managing Economic Fundamentals
   

   Establishing a Regulatory Regime
   Resource Pricing
   Using Market-Based Instruments
   Removing Pricing Barriers to Technology Adoption
   

   Intrasectoral Policy Integration
   Intersectoral Policy Integration
   International Trade and Investment
   Governance
   A Framework for Policy Integration
   Toward an Action Agenda

5. Call to Action

   Regional Policy Recommendations
   

   Economic Reform Actions
   Institutional Reform Actions
   Governance Reform Actions
   

   Sector-specific Actions
   

   Land and Forest Sector
   Water Sector
   Urban Sector
   Industry Sector
   Energy Sector
   

   Conclusions

Literature Cited [ PDF: 46kb | 6 pages ]

Appendices [ PDF: 60kb | 11 pages ]