Training decision-makers in use of environmental economics

Environmental economics can be put to good use, for instance, to stress the high economic value of environmental goods and services, and the high costs of poor environmental management or inaction.

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.

1. Training public service officials
2. Strengthening sustainable development economics
3. Increasing training for sustainable development
4. Expanding environmental management education and training

1. Using natural resource accounting
2. Ensuring compatibility between multilateral environmental agreements and World Trade Organization rules

1. Researching economics of conservation

1. Unused
2. Underuse
3. Indecision
4. Abuse