Measuring environmental quality in Asia.

摘要: Pressures of population growth, rapid urbanization, industrialization, and stress on natural resources provide new challenges to the Asian Development Bank as it strives set forth environmental issues an important element sustainable economic development in Pacific region. While can policy technical guidance, governments themselves must take lead providing policies needed address effectively rapidly changing condition. How we measure effectiveness governmental performance meeting challenge Asia is subject this book. By drawing experiences six countries, authors have developed a series methodological tools assist others assessing quality air, water, soil, biological diversity developing countries. These then be used determine financial achieve life characteristic path.