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PROVINCIAL-LEVEL STUDY ON EXISTING INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR INTEGRATION
OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS INTO THE ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING AND PLANNING
PROCESS: NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- A. Physical environment
- 1. Soils
- 2. Climate
- 3. Hydrology
- 4. Forests
- 5. Species diversity
- 6. Flora
- 7. Genetic resources
- B. Socio-cultural environment
- 1. History and languages
- 2. Demographic characteristics
- 3. Human resources development
- 4. Social infrastructure
- 5. Administration
- 6. Land use
- 7. Agriculture
- 8. Industry
- 9. Tourism
- 10. Mineral resources
- I. Plans and planning process
- A. Long- and medium-term plans and programmes at the national level
- B. Institutional arrangements for decision-making/development planning at different levels
- 1. Overall planning bodies
- 2. Project approving bodies
- C. Public sector development programmes at federal and provincial levels
- D. National development planning
- E. National conservation strategy
- F. Provincial process
- G. Provincial annual development programmes (1990/91 to 1996/97
- H. Planning institutions and planning processes of the provincial government
- II. Environmental implications of unsustainable development
- A. Major green environmental problems and causes
- 1. Deforestation
- 2. Soil erosion
- 3. Range-land degradation
- 4. Biodiversity conservation
- 5. Desertification, waterlogging and salinity
- 6. Natural hazards: droughts, floods and earthquakes
- B. Major brown or ambient environmental problems
- 1. Water pollution
- 2. Air pollution
- 3. Solid wastes
- 4. Industrial, toxic and hazardous wastes
- 5. Noise pollution
- 6. Built-up environment and urban sprawl
- 7. Slums and squatter settlements
- C. Environmental assessment as a planning tool
- D. Provincial-level institutions and governance for integration of environmental considerations and development
- 1. Planning environment and development department
- 2. Peshawar university
- 3. National institute of public administration
- E. District/local level institutions and bodies
- F. Non-governmental organizations
- G. Institutional and policy weaknesses
- H. Environmental legislation
- I. Inadequacies of the legislative situation
- J. Bottlenecks and constraints
- III. Case study of environmental rehabilitation project in malakand division of north-west frontier province
- A. Project setting and inputs
- B. Environmental rehabilitation project
- C. Objectives
- D. Scope of the project
- E. Village organizations and women's organizations
- F. Land-use plans
- G. Rotational grazing
- H. Choice of species by farmers
- I. Women in forestry
- J. Privatization of nurseries
- K. Coordination with other forestry projects
- L. Training
- M. Sustainable village development
- N. Lessons drawn from the environmental rehabilitation project
- IV. Recommendations
- A. Good governance, institutions and legislation
- B. Trained manpower and financial resources
- C. Interdepartmental coordination for planning
- D. Rational planning
- E. Development of a comprehensive environmental database
- F. Environmental education and awareness
- G. Public participation
- H. Integration of environmental assessment into the early stage of a project
- I. Preparation of district-level conservation strategy
- J. Efficient urban planning
- References
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