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 |
-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 and net)
-Adult literacy rate |
-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 |
-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 |
| 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 |
-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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
-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 |
|
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-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 |
| 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 |
| Chapter
40: Information for decision-making |
|
-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 |
