United States of America National Report. United Nations Conference onEnvironment and Development

摘要

The report presents the national perspectives and experience of the UnitedStates, 'together with information on policies, activities and issues at the national level.' It summarizes the nation's efforts to protect and enhance the quality of the human environment in concert with its efforts to provide economic well-being during the two decades since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm. The information presented in the report is primarily and deliberately retrospective. It is an attempt to portray the many human, economic and natural resources of the United States, to describe resource use and the principal national laws and programs established to protect these resources, and to analyze key issues on the agenda of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The analysis is presented in terms of past and present conditions and trends, measures of progress made in responding to the key issues, and a summary of government activities, underway or pending, to address ongoing or newly emerging national environmental and resource management problems.