Involving local communities in contingency planning on environmental hazards

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends establishing procedures for involving local communities in contingency planning for environmental and industrial accidents, and maintaining an open exchange of information on local hazards.

1. Preventing exposure to environmental hazards
2. Preparing contingency reconstruction plans
3. Planning for the unexpected
4. Involving local populations
5. Involving local communities in pollution control
6. Improving planning and management systems

1. Ranking environmental problems for national environmental action plans
2. Developing local environmental health action plans

1. Nonlocal
2. Hazard