Environmental assessement of development projects
- Kaula Lumpur UNO 1983
- 334 p.
This set of papers van assembled by the Department of Economie and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretarist with the assistance of the secretariat of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Batural Resources (IUCH), and other consultants pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1567 (L), General Assembly resolutions 2650 (XXVI) and 2994 (xXVII), and the recommendat Lone of the United Nations Conference on the Busan Environment, held st Stockholm 5-16 June 1972. 17 The papers are in large part based on studies undertaken by the IUC Commission on Environmental Policy, Lav and Administration and upon essays commissioned by the United Nations Secretariat. The preparation and editing of the papers vas directed by Professor Lynton K. Caldvell, of the Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indians, United States of America. He is Chairman of the IUCN Commission.
The substance of the papers concerns those aspects of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment having special relevance for the organization and management of government. The first paper in the series is a systematic review of the Conference report, and identifies recommendations which should be of particular interest to governmental officials at all levels of political Jurisdiction, but especially at the national level. For the most part, however, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was concerned with needs and objectives. It was rightly occupied with determining what should be done. Only in a very general way, with few exceptions, did the Conference specify how its recommendations should be put into effect by technicians and administrators.
Nevertheless, the United Nations Conference may have marked the beginning of a new era in co-operative international public administration. It has focused vorld wide attention on the need to take account of environmental values in public administration at all levels. The United Nations General Assembly at its twenty seventh session, adopted 11 resolutions on the subject of the Conference (resolutions 2994 to 3004 (XXVII)) inter alia, endorsing its report, calling upon Governments to consider its recommendations for action, and establishing new thited Nations nachinery and means for financing international co-operation for environmental protection.
These papers are intended to sasiat publie officials in assessing the implications of the environmental quality issue for governmental organization, planning, and administration. They are focused largely, but not exclusively, on the issues debated at the Conference; but they could not possibly provide ansvers