Environmental performance reviews : Ireland

Environmental performance reviews Ireland

This review of Ireland's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. The analyses presented are supported by a bro...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing [2000]
Colección:OECD environmental performance reviews.
Materias:
Environmental management > Ireland.
Environmental policy > Ireland.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • General Introduction
  • Outline of the Report
  • Detailed Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations and Signs
  • Abbreviations
  • Signs
  • Country Aggregates
  • Currency
  • Cut off Date
  • List of Team Members
  • Conclusions and Recommendations
  • 1. Implementing Environmental Policies
  • Improving the cost-effectiveness of environmental policies and strengthening environmental infras...
  • Water
  • Air
  • Waste
  • 2. Towards Sustainable Development
  • Integrating environmental concerns in economic decisions
  • Towards sustainable transport
  • 3. International Co-operation
  • 1. The context
  • 1. The Physical Context
  • Figure 1.1 Map of Ireland
  • 2. The Human Context
  • 3. The Economic Context
  • Figure 1.2 Economic structure and trends
  • 4. The Institutional Context
  • Central environmental administration
  • Table 1.1 Fiscal revenues, 1997
  • Figure 1.3 Organisational chart of the Department of the Environment and local Government
  • Environmental responsibilities of local authorities
  • 5. Environmental Legislation
  • Table 1.2 Selected legislation relating to the environment
  • Part I. Pollution Prevention and Control
  • 2. Water Management
  • 1. Current Situation and Trends
  • Freshwater resources
  • Water quality
  • Figure 2.1 Water resources
  • Figure 2.2 Water use, late 1990s
  • Pressures on water resources
  • Pressures on water quantities
  • Pressures on water quality
  • Table 2.1 Main sources of pollution of rivers and streams, 1997
  • 2. Responses
  • Legal and institutional framework
  • Figure 2.3 Agricultural inputs, 1997
  • Figure 2.4 Livestock a density, 1999
  • Objectives
  • Regulatory instruments
  • Discharge permits
  • Strategic and management plans
  • Monitoring
  • Economic instruments
  • Table 2.2 Water prices, 1998
  • Funding and expenditure
  • 3. Environmental Performance.
  • Water quantity
  • Drinking water supply
  • Water quality and aquatic ecosystems
  • Environmental conditions and trends
  • Cost-effectiveness and instruments
  • Financing present and future efforts
  • Figure 2.5 Population connected to public waste water treatment plant, late 1990s
  • Table 2.3 Population connected to public waste water treatment plant
  • 3. Air Management
  • 1. Air Pollution Situation and Trends
  • Emissions of atmospheric pollutants
  • Figure 3.1 Air pollutant emissions
  • Figure 3.2 Energy structure and intensity
  • Ambient air quality
  • Table 3.1 Ambient air quality limits applied in Ireland
  • 2. Responses
  • Objectives
  • Measures to prevent and control air pollution
  • Regulatory measures
  • Economic instruments
  • Monitoring and reporting
  • Investment and expenditure for air pollution prevention and control
  • Air quality management and the energy sector
  • Energy intensity
  • Energy supply
  • Energy prices
  • Table 3.2 Energy prices in selected OECD countries, 1998
  • Air quality management and the transport sector
  • 3. Environmental Performance
  • Air management
  • Air quality objectives
  • Air emissions objectives
  • Pollution control measures
  • Integration of air pollution concerns into sectoral policies
  • 4. Waste Management
  • 1. Current Situation and Trends
  • Figure 4.1 Municipal waste generation, late 1990s
  • Figure 4.2 Disposal of municipal waste, late 1990s
  • Table 4.1 Composition of household waste in Ireland
  • 2. Responses
  • Objectives
  • Institutional and regulatory framework
  • Waste minimisation and disposal
  • Waste disposal
  • Table 4.2 Waste disposal and recovery routes, 1998a
  • Waste minimisation: recycling and prevention
  • Instruments and financing
  • Table 4.3 Use of charges for waste collection and disposal, 1994
  • Hazardous waste management.
  • Table 4.4 Municipal waste management: operating expenditure and revenues
  • 3. Environmental Performance
  • Waste disposal
  • Waste prevention and recovery
  • Table 4.5 Recycling rates for packaging waste
  • Instruments and financing
  • Hazardous waste management
  • Figure 2.1 Water resources
  • Figure 2.2 Water use, late 1990s
  • Figure 2.3 Agricultural inputs, 1997
  • Figure 2.4 Livestock density, 1999
  • Figure 3.1 Air pollutant emissions
  • Figure 3.2 Energy structure and intensity
  • Part II. Integration of Policies
  • 5. Environmental and Economic Policies
  • 1. Towards Sustainable Development
  • The new Irish economy and environmental trends
  • Very rapid growth and dematerialisation
  • Table 5.1 Change in GDP, sectoral trends and environmental pressures
  • Changing consumption patterns
  • Environmental trends
  • Institutional integration of environmental concerns
  • Investment programming in the EU context
  • The national Sustainable Development Strategy
  • Implementing the Sustainable Development Strategy: institutional arrangements
  • Implementing the Sustainable Development Strategy: policy integration
  • Economic impacts of environmental policies
  • Environmental expenditure
  • Financing of environmental expenditure
  • Competitiveness
  • Table 5.2 Public environmental expenditure
  • 2. Environmental Policy Instruments
  • Regulatory instruments
  • Licensing
  • Compliance and enforcement
  • Table 5.3 Integrated pollution control: licensing, monitoring and enforcement
  • Economic instruments
  • Table 5.4 Economic instruments
  • Charges
  • Financial support
  • Environment related taxation and tax differentiation (energy and transport taxation)
  • Table 5.5 Environment related taxes, 1999
  • Other instruments
  • Spatial planning
  • Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
  • Environmental research and development.
  • Environmental information and education
  • Participation and partnership
  • 3. Environmental Performance
  • Integrating environmental concerns in economic decisions
  • Improving the cost-effectiveness of environmental policies and strengthening environmental infras...
  • 6. Sectoral Integration: Transport
  • 1. Transport Activities and the Environment
  • Current situation and trends
  • Transportation networks and fleets
  • Figure 6.1 Trends in the transport sector
  • Freight transport
  • Passenger transport
  • Pressures on the environment
  • Air emissions
  • Noise
  • Table 6.1 Transport emissions to air, 1990-98
  • Use of land and resources
  • Accidents and health risks
  • 2. Responses
  • Transport policy objectives relating to the environment
  • Measures for transport infrastructure investment
  • Table 6.2 Transport investment,a 1994-99
  • Measures relating to vehicles and fuels
  • Figure 6.2 Road fuel rices and taxes
  • Table 6.3 Transport fuel prices, 1998
  • Economic instruments
  • Instruments relating to car ownership
  • Instruments relating to car use
  • Other instruments
  • Regulatory and other measures for traffic management
  • 3. Progress Towards Sustainability of the Transport Sector
  • Infrastructure
  • Vehicles, fuels and traffic
  • Economic signals
  • Part III. Co-operation with the International Community
  • 7. International Co-operation
  • 1. Integration in the European Union and Bilateral Co-operation
  • Transposition of EU directives
  • EU funding
  • Table 7.1 EU transfers, 1998a
  • Co-operation with Northern Ireland
  • Co-operation with the United Kingdom
  • 2. Protection of the Marine Environment
  • Coastal activities
  • Land-based marine pollution
  • Dumping at sea
  • Transfrontier marine pollution
  • Maritime traffic
  • Oil spills and liability for maritime accidents
  • 3. Nature Protection
  • Protection of marine mammals.
  • Protected natural areas
  • Table 7.2 Categories of protected areas, 1998
  • Peatlands
  • Biological diversity
  • 4. Transfrontier Air Pollution
  • Sulphur oxides
  • Nitrogen oxides
  • Volatile organic compounds
  • Long-range transport of air pollutants
  • 5. Climate Change
  • Actions and results in the 1990s
  • Recent commitments and planned actions
  • Table 7.3 Greenhouse gas emissions, 1998
  • Table 7.4 Deposition of SO2 and NOx, 1996
  • Assessment of future results and strategic issues
  • 6. Other Global Issues
  • Follow-up to UNCED
  • Ozone depleting substances (ODS)
  • International trade and investment
  • Figure 7.1 Official development assistance, 1998
  • Development assistance
  • 7. Environmental Performance
  • European and bilateral co operation
  • Commitments concerning marine environment
  • Commitments concerning biodiversity and nature protection
  • Commitments concerning air pollution
  • Climate change
  • Sustainable development
  • Environmental aid
  • Annexes
  • Annex I: Selected Environmental Data
  • Annex II: Selected Economic Data and Trends
  • Annex III.A: Selected multilateral agreements (worldwide)
  • Annex III.B: Selected multilateral agreements (regional)
  • Annex IV. Chronology of Selected Environmental Events (1990-99).

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