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FOREWARD

In March and April 1999, the UNEP-IETC and the Technical Cooperation Council of the Philippines of the Department of Foreign Affairs collaborated to conduct an International Training on Environmental Management (ITEM) for Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Twenty-five participants representing six LDCs attended the two-week program which highlighted an ecological perspective, and presented environmental management fundamentals and sustainable development challenges and applications. A significant portion of ITEM focused on environment management (EM) tools and approaches, such as, Environment Planning, Freshwater Management, Environmental Health Planning and Management, Environmental Technology Assessment, Urban Planning, Environmental Management Systems, Protected Areas Management, Solid Waste Management and Ecotourism. These were delivered through a variety of methods by a seasoned team of UNEP resource persons and national Philippine experts. Training participants contributed their own perspectives through country papers and discussions leading up to the development of action programs in their respective areas.

A recurrent message throughout the ITEM was the need for integrating environmental considerations in making decisions that impact on development, whether at the national, industry, or community level. However, the myriad range of EM tools now available can be potentially bewildering to the development manager or government official unless he or she clearly understands when these are most useful and what they can help achieve.

To make decision analysis easier for urban managers, strategists and other decision makers, UNEP-IETC has selected several environmental management tools featured at the ITEM, and added others to produce a training workbook that will be useful for early stages of environmental decision-making. These tools are: Environmental Technology Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment, Rapid Urban Environmental Assessment, Environmental Profiling, and Environmental Management Systems.

This workbook contains technical papers with accompanying training modules in user-friendly formats. It is designed to encourage and facilitate a wider dissemination of the EM tools. The training modules were developed by the Development Academy of the Philippines through its Environmental Management Office, which successfully implemented the ITEM course by drawing from its years of experience in environmental education, training and capability building. I am grateful to the high priority and dedication which the Academy has given to this project and to the Technical Cooperation Council of the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs for its collaboration in developing and implementing the course.

December 1999

LILIA GC. CASANOVA
Deputy Director/Officer-in-Charge UNEP-IETC

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