Main Functions and Objectives

• Promote sustainable development and equitable access to natural resources

• Protect biological diversity and promote its sustainable use

• Support land- and resource-use planning and appropriate management practices

• Protect the environment and human health from pollution and inappropriate and unsustainable practices

• Improve environmental awareness and decision-making through provision and distribution of good environmental information

• Encourage and support the democratization of environmental practices and management

• Promote Namibia and her interests in regional and global meetings, treaties and interactions

• Support and promote the training of young Namibians in the environment fields

To further these objectives the DEA is involved in:

• Planning of land and resource use, including regional environmental profiles

• Desertification control activities

• Community-based natural resource management activities

• Biodiversity protection and information activities

• Natural resource economics and accounting

• Environmental assessments (EIAs) and audits

• Pollution control and management of hazardous substances

• Development of national policies and legislation

• Networking with national and international organisations

• Training programmes

• Environmental Information Dissemination