| CHAPTERS
OF AGENDA 21 |
DRIVING
FORCE INDICATORS |
STATE
INDICATORS |
RESPONSE
INDICATORS |
| CATEGORY:
SOCIAL |
| Chapter
3: Combating poverty |
-Unemployment
rate |
-Head count index
of poverty
-Poverty gap index
-Squared poverty gap index
-Gini index of income inequality
-Ratio of average female wage to male wage
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| Chapter
5: Demographic dynamics and sustainability |
-Population
growth rate
-Net migration rate
-Total fertility rate
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-Population
density |
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| Chapter
36: Promoting education, public awareness and training |
-Rate of change
of school-age population
-Primary school enrolment ratio (gross and net)
-Secondary school enrolment ratio (gross & net)
-Adult literacy rate
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-Children
reaching grade 5 of primary education
-School life expectancy
-Difference between male and female school enrolment ratios
-Women per hundred men in the labour force
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-GDP spent on
education |
| Chapter
6: Protecting and promoting human health |
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-Basic
sanitation: Percent of population with adequate excreta disposal
facilities
-Access to safe drinking water
-Life expectancy at birth
-Adequate birth weight
-Infant mortality rate
-Maternal mortality rate
-Nutritional status of children
|
-Immunization
against infectious childhood diseases
-Contraceptive prevalence
-Proportion of potentially hazardous chemicals monitored in
food
-National health expenditure devoted to local health care
-Total national health expenditure related to GNP
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| Chapter
7: Promoting sustainable human settlement development |
-Rate of growth
of urban population
-Per capita consumption of fossil fuel by motor vehicle
transport
-Human and economic loss due to natural disasters
|
-Percent of
population in urban areas
-Area and population of urban formal and informal settlements
-Floor area per person
-House price to income ratio
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-Infrastructure
expenditure per capita |
| CATEGORY:
ECONOMIC |
| Chapter
2: International cooperation to accelerate sustainable
development in countries and related domestic policies |
-GDP per capita
-Net investment share in GDP
-Sum of exports and imports as a percent of GDP
|
-Environmentally
adjusted Net Domestic Product
-Share of manufactured goods in total merchandise exports
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| Chapter
4: Changing consumption patterns |
-Annual energy
consumption
-Share of natural-resource intensive industries in
manufacturing value-added
|
-Proven mineral
reserves
-Proven fossil fuel energy reserves
-Lifetime of proven energy reserves
-Intensity of material use
-Share of manufacturing value-added in GDP
-Share of consumption of renewable energy resources
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| Chapter
33: Financial resources and mechanisms |
-Net resources
transfer / GNP
-Total ODA given or received as a percentage of GNP
|
-Debt / GNP
-Debt service / export
|
-Environmental
protection expenditures as a percent of GDP
-Amount of new or additional funding for sustainable
development
|
| Chapter
34: Transfer of environmentally sound technology,
cooperation and capacity-building |
-Capital goods
imports
-Foreign direct investments
|
-Share of
environmentally sound capital goods imports |
-Technical
cooperation grants |
| CATEGORY:
ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Chapter
18: Protection of the quality and supply of freshwater
resources |
-Annual
withdrawals of ground and surface water
-Domestic consumption of water per capita
|
-Groundwater
reserves
-Concentration of faecal coliform in freshwater
-Biochemical oxygen demand in water bodies
|
-Waste-water
treatment coverage
-Density of hydrological networks
|
| Chapter
17: Protection of the oceans, all kinds of seas and coastal
areas |
-Population
growth in coastal areas
-Discharges of oil into coastal waters
-Releases of nitrogen and phosphorus to coastal waters
|
-Maximum
sustained yield for fisheries
-Algae index
|
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| Chapter
10: Integrated approach to the planning and management of
land resources |
-Land use change |
-Changes in land
condition |
-Decentralized
local-level natural resource management |
| Chapter
12: Managing fragile ecosystems: combating desertification
and drought |
-Population
living below poverty line in dryland areas |
-National monthly
rainfall index
-Satellite derived vegetation index
-Land affected by desertification
|
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| Chapter
13: Managing fragile ecosystems: sustainable mountain
development |
-Population
change in mountain areas |
-Sustainable use
of natural resources in mountain areas
-Welfare of mountain populations
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| Chapter
14: Promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development |
-Use of
agricultural pesticides
-Use of fertilizers
-Irrigation percent of arable land
-Energy use in agriculture
|
-Arable land per
capita
-Area affected by salinization and waterlogging
|
-Agricultural
education |
| Chapter
11: Combating deforestation |
-Wood harvesting
intensity |
-Forest area
change |
-Managed forest
area ratio
-Protected forest area as a percent of total forest area
|
| Chapter
15: Conservation of biological diversity |
|
-Threatened
species as a percent of total native species |
-Protected area
as a percent of total area |
| Chapter
16: Environmentally sound management of biotechnology |
|
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-R & D
expenditure for biotechnology
-Existence of national biosafety regulations or guidelines
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| Chapter
9: Protection of the atmosphere |
-Emissions of
greenhouse gasses
-Emissions of sulphur oxides
-Emissions on nitrogen oxides
-Consumption of ozone depleting substances
|
-Ambient
concentrations of pollutants in urban areas |
-Expenditure on
air pollution abatement |
| Chapter
21: Environmentally sound management of solid wastes and
sewage-related issues |
-Generation of
industrial and municipal solid waste
-Household waste disposed per capita
|
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-Expenditure on
waste management
-Waste recycling and reuse
-Municipal waste disposal
|
| Chapter
19: Environmentally sound management of toxic chemicals |
|
-Chemically
induced acute poisonings |
-Number of
chemicals banned or severely restricted |
| Chapter
20: Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes |
-Generation of
hazardous wastes
-Imports and exports of hazardous wastes
|
-Area of land
contaminated by hazardous wastes |
-Expenditure on
hazardous waste treatment |
| Chapter
22: Safe and environmentally sound management of radioactive
wastes |
-Generation of
radioactive wastes |
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| CATEGORY:
INSTITUTIONAL |
| Chapter
8: Integrating environment and development in
decision-making |
|
|
-Sustainable
development strategies
-Programme of integrated environmental and economic
accounting
-Mandated Environmental Impact Assessment
-National councils for sustainable development
|
| Chapter
35: Science for sustainable development |
|
-Potential
scientists and engineers per million population |
-Scientists and
engineers engaged in R & D per million population
-Expenditure on R & D as a percent of GDP
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| Chapter
37: National mechanisms and international cooperation for
capacity-building in developing countries |
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| Chapter
38: International institutional arrangements |
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| Chapter
39: International legal instruments and mechanisms |
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-Ratification of
global agreements
-Implementation of ratified global agreements
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| Chapter
40: Information for decision-making |
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-Main telephone
lines per 100 inhabitants
-Access to information
|
-Programmes for
national environmental statistics |
| Chapter
23-32: Strengthening the role of major groups |
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-Representation
of major groups in national councils for sustainable development
-Representatives of ethnic minorities and indigenous people
in national councils for sustainable development
-Contribution of NGOs to sustainable development
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