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State of
Environment Reports (SOER) |
The Ministry of Environment
and Tourism is currently in the process of
defining the National Core a set of
Environmental Indicators (NCEI) that will be
used in the future to monitor the
environment. This will form a significant
source of information for decisions in
environmental management and will feed into
the President's Vision 2030 process. A great
number of indicators (184) have been
suggested for the State of the Environment
Report (SoER) process in Namibia between
1998 and 2001. Seven themes were chosen for
a thorough study of the state of the
environment in Namibia:
It is impossible to monitor quite
so many indicators, especially considering the national level
monitoring programmes are extremely resource-intensive. It is
therefore, that the Environmental Monitoring and Indicators Network (EMIN)
Workshop was held on June11-12, 2001, to identified and streamlined
the most effective and efficient indicators for incorporation into
Namibia's NCEI. A total of 142 indicators were used to describe the 10
most crucial environmental issues (link), out of the collection of
184. The EMIN II Workshop marked the final selection of 43 indicators
across 11
environmental, social and economic issues.
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