Managing the environment

Conducting measures to ensure proper care of natural resources.

Environment management includes not only formal management processes but also a range of environment-related activities of individuals and group and those interested in environment programmes, policies and outcomes. The word environment is directed particularly to physical environmental factors, but in the understanding that their effective management must take account of social and economic factors.

1. Managing
2. Improving planning and management systems

1. Using total quality environmental management
2. Using suitable technology to improve environmental management by indigenous peoples
3. Using environmental management techniques
4. Using environmental management systems in industry
5. Using environmental indicators
6. Undertaking environmental management measures to control disease vectors
7. Training in environmental aspects of enterprise management
8. Strengthening local institutions and partnerships for integrated infrastructure services
9. Strengthening cradle-to-grave environmental impact assessment of hazardous waste
10. Restoring environmental damage
11. Recognizing women's role as environmental managers
12. Preventing exposure to environmental hazards
13. Managing urban environmental problems
14. Managing tourism for both recreation and conservation
15. Managing natural areas
16. Managing land
17. Managing jungle environment
18. Managing environmental demand
19. Managing environmental change
20. Managing ecosystems sustainably
21. Managing degraded river basins
22. Making inventory of economic instruments for sustainable development
23. Instigating community resources management
24. Including environmental management in activities of local authorities
25. Improving soil management
26. Improving cooperation with indigenous peoples on local environmental planning and management
27. Ensuring environmental management of privatization
28. Developing international environmental law
29. Developing environmental management
30. Developing community management schemes
31. Demonstrating sound environmental management
32. Coordinating international river basin development
33. Advancing industrial environmental management
34. Adapting coast management techniques to environmental conditions on small islands

1. Assuring environmental protection

1. Transferring technology
2. Strengthening integrated approaches to environmental infrastructure
3. Providing extension services to support local environmental management
4. Promoting best environmental practice
5. Increasing environmental management education capacities
6. Developing sustainable coastal fishing policy
7. Developing national environmental policy studies
8. Applying culture-based knowledge systems

1. Managing technological change
2. Managing resources
3. Conserving nature

1. Presumptuous management of the environment
2. Mismanagement of environmental demand