Monitoring environmental progress: A report on work in progress
The World Bank is both a compiler and a user of environmentally sustainable development (ESD) indicators. It is essential that policymakers have at least rough indicators of whether environmental conditions are improving or deteriorating in broad areas of concern. This report showcases improvements in ESD indicators by using them to analyze policy-oriented issues. The report examines issues in developing indicators that are understood by compilers and users, including definitions, methodology, and practical considerations. It addresses the gray area where physical indicators of environmental conditions blend into policymaking and proposes a change in the role of national accounting, where poor measurement of environmental aspects can send distorted signals to decisionmakers.
- Research Organization:
- World Bank Group, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 544483
- Report Number(s):
- WB-0509/XAB; ISBN 0-8213-3365-8; TRN: 73083090
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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