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Introduction A training manual on integrated environmental assessment and reporting Acknowledgments Preparation of the GEO Resource Book was a truly collaborative, international effort, involving not only dozens of leading experts as authors, but also many others who served as reviewers and who provided advice. UNEP, IISD and the authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of the following, as peer reviewers, advisors and/or as facilitators in pilot training sessions: Asma A. Abahussain (Arabian Gulf University – AGU) Adel Farid Abdel-Kader (UNEP) Mohammed S. Abido (Arab Forest and Range Institute – AFRI) Mariaeugenia Arreola (UNEP) Neville Ash (UNEP-WCMC) Sam Ayonghe (University of Buea) Fred Carden (International Development Research Centre – IDRC) Marion Cheatle (UNEP) Munyaradzi Chenje (UNEP) Volodymyr Demkine (UNEP) Nickolai Denisov (GRID Arendal) Guillaume Fontaine (Latin American Social Sciences Institute – FLACSO) Miriam Galt (Bee Successful, Inc.) Bill Glanville (IISD) Tessa Goverse (UNEP) Katrin Hallman (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) Peter Hardi (IISD and Central European University) Diego Martino (Latin American Center for Social Ecology – CLAES) Gillian Martin Mehers (LEAD International, Inc.) Kakuko Nagatani Yoshida (UNEP) Musisi Nkambwe (University of Botswana) Paul Raskin (Tellus Institute) Anna Rosa Moreno (National University of Mexico) Mirjam Schomaker (ex-UNEP) Joni Seager (York University) Anna Stabrawa (UNEP) Mary-Pat Silveira (UN DSD) Nalini Sharma (UNEP) Stefan Schwarzer (UNEP/GRID – Geneva) Anna Stabrawa (UNEP) Ron Witt (UNEP/GRID – Geneva) Kaveh Zahedi (UNEP-WCMC) Jinhua Zhang (UNEP) Anna Zucchetti (Office for Advice and Consultation on the Environment – OACA) Selected modules of the GEO Resource Book were pilot tested in three workshops in Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 4–5, 2006; in Doha, Qatar, on August 28–30, 2006; and, in Cairo, Egypt on October 16–19, 2006. Feedback received from participants during and after these workshops was invaluable, and helped shape both the content of the Resource Book and the suggested approach to delivering future sessions. Thanks to Carissa Wieler for designing the PowerPoint slides, Michelle French and Stu Slayen for managing the editorial and publishing process, Michael Keating for editorial work, and to Don Berg for graphic design. Special thanks to Diane Conolly at IISD for providing administrative support throughout the process. iv GEO Resource Book
A training manual on integrated environmental assessment and reporting Introduction Introduction László Pintér (IISD) Purpose and Audience of the Resource Book The year 2007 marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of Our Common Future, commonly known as the Brundtland Report. The need for building environmental considerations into decision making, a central theme in the Brundtland Report, is no longer a bold proposition, but a basic necessity. Without the ability to monitor and assess changing environmental trends and their interactions with human development, navigating the sea of global change would be reduced to reactive crisis management—hardly an effective way to tackle policy issues with such profound relevance for the planet. Our Common Future called not only for attention to the interactions between environment and development, but also for the need to consider the interests of future generations. This requires an ongoing effort to substantially strengthen our capacity to assess the range of possible futures and to create policies that take this knowledge into account. Addressing these needs is at the heart of this Resource Book. The purpose of the GEO Resource Book is to help build capacity for forward-looking integrated environmental assessment (IEA) and reporting at the sub-global level. For the purposes of this publication, we define IEA as the process of producing and communicating future-oriented, policyrelevant information on key interactions between the natural environment and human society. The methodology underlying IEA has been pioneered and championed by the Global Environment Outlook, UNEP’s flagship assessment on the status and direction of the global environment. As a key measure of GEO’s success, since the publication of the first global report in 1996, the GEO approach to environmental assessment and reporting has been adopted by an increasing number of organizations at the regional, national and sub-national level. Capacity building has been a key element of the GEO process, and training activities carried out by UNEP and its partners since the late 1990s contributed to the wider adoption of IEA methods. In 2000, UNEP and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), a UNEP Collaborating Centre, jointly published a training manual that served as the basis for many training activities and as a basis for developing other regionalized training curricula (Pintér, Zahedi and Cressman, 2000). The need for updating the first training manual became obvious for a number of reasons, including the evolution of the GEO methods, progress in the scientific and technical aspects of assessments, the need for more detailed and more easily customizable resource materials on IEA, and the need to increase the effectiveness of capacity building. A 2004 meeting of the GEO Capacity Building Working Group discussed the criteria of more effective capacity building efforts shown in Box 1, and these criteria, along with additional guidance from UNEP and the GEO Capacity Building Working Group and others, inspired the development of this Resource Book. GEO Resource Book 1
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