IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)

This exceptional publication provides a new analysis of the state of the world and the first global assessment of sustainability. It surveys 180 countries using the Wellbeing Assessment, a unique way of measuring human and ecosystem wellbeing.

A directory covering the central American region and six countries : Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. For each country, a general description of the state of the environment is followed by a list of citations with abstracts of key environmental assessments and plans and a list of contacts in international, regional and national organisations.

A series of regional reviews of multi-sectoral strategies for sustainability at the national, provincial, and local levels, complementing the volume on "Strategies for national sustainable development". This volume summarizes the status of strategies in the region, reviews and analyses case studies to provide an analytical history and status report on each strategy.