strategy
Improving environmental health monitoring
Synonyms:
Improving monitoring capacities for assessing environmental quality and health statusMonitoring ecosystem health
Measuring environmental health
Context:
Agenda 21 recommends the establishment of adequate environmental monitoring capacities for surveillance of environmental quality and health status of populations. This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Broader:
UpgradingSurveying health issues Narrower:
Monitoring air qualityAssessing water qualityMonitoring food qualityReviewing advances in medical technologyMonitoring pollution by nuclear reactorsAssessing health impacts of climate changeMonitoring adverse effects of hazardous wastesEstablishing criteria for monitoring forest resourcesMonitoring exposure to hazardous environmental pollutants Facilitates:
Preserving natural ecosystemsDeveloping quality controls for industrial systemsPreparing national and local environmental quality standards Facilitated by:
Creating environmental health standardsResearching health effects of transport systemsUndertaking interdisciplinary research on health effects of climate change Subjects:
Geography → EcologyCommerce → Assessment
Research, Standards → Inspection, tests
Research, Standards → Measurement
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Health Care → Health
Environment → Environment
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
