Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Infrastructure/housing facilities
Infrastructure/institutional aspects
Extent of environmental degradation (ED)
Control of environmental degradation
Urban Growth Management Proposed Action Strategy
Planning
Decentralization
Greater policy focus on poor people
Better use of nongovernmental sectors
Financing
Establish meaningful EPC in near future
Industrial Growth Management Existing Situation
Background
Economic aspects affecting ED
Adverse environmental effects
Adequacy of waste management
Planning needs
Industrial Growth Management/Proposed Environmental Action Strategy
Planning
Economic policies reorientation
Establishing effective regulatory control of pollution
Results of Study
The detailed study findings are summarized in a series of
matrices, including each of the items just listed, each with various subheadings,
and a judgment evaluation for each of the seven countries the seriousness of the
problem.
Conclusions
The inevitable acceleration of urbanization and industrialization
in the DCs poses unprecedented problems to the DC governments, not only
in nature but in magnitude, and the No. 1 task facing the governments is to
change their economic development behavioral patterns, and to do this promptly,
in order (1) to create the needed jobs to support the massive population influx,
(2) to furnish urban the infrastructure/housing to accommodate the growth needs,
including obtaining a much higher level of financing for this purpose by use
of taxation and service charges and including innovative use of planning so
that the available funds can be wisely invested in an integrated urban devel-
opment approach, including decentralization of authority/resources for urban
infrastructure/housing problems to the municipal level where it belongs, and
(3) to accomplish this in an E-c-E manner that reduces urban environmental
degradation problems to acceptable levels.
To accomplish this, a huge increase in technical assistance investment is
needed for developing the needed appropriate technology for guiding future
