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First Substantive Annual Report

UN-CSD Indicators of Sustainable Development Testing Report of Austria
November 1997

Preliminary remarks

This report is part of Austrias testing of the working list of UN indicators of sustainable development. It is the first substantial step of our testing procedure and therefore not complete or finalized concerning different aspects.

It has not been possible to translate all tables into English by now. Nevertheless we decided to attach them as general information on our further work.

We hope our report will be a useful contribution to the testing of ISDs.

In the name of the core working group
Ingeborg Fiala

CONTENTS

SECTION ONE

SECTION TWO

        List of indicators:

Chapter 3: Combating poverty

  • Unemployment rate
  • Ratio of average female wage to male wage

Chapter 5: Demographic dynamics and sustainability

  • Population growth rate
  • Net migration rate
  • Total fertility rate
  • Maximal population density

Chapter 36: Promoting education, public awareness and training (including gender issues) Women per hundred men in the labour force

Chapter 6: Protecting and promoting human health

  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Infant mortality rate
  • Total national health expenditure related to GNP

Chapter 7: Promoting sustainable human settlement development (including traffic and transport)

  • Consumption of fossil fuel by motor vehicle transport
  • Percent of population in urban areas
  • Floor area per person
  • Infrastructure expenditure per capita - Expenditure on noise abatement

Chapter 2: International cooperation to accelerate sustainable development

  • GDP per capita
  • Investment share in GDP
  • Environmentally adjusted GDP

Chapter 4: Changing consumption patterns

  • Annual energy consumption per unit GDP
  • Proven mineral and fossil fuel energy reserves
  • Lifetime of fossil energy reserves
  • Intensity of material use
  • Share of manufacturing value-added in GDP
  • Consumption of renewable energy resources

Chapter 33: Financial resources and mechanisms

  • Total ODA given or received as a percentage of GNP
  • Environmental protection expenditures as a percentage of GDP

Chapter 34: Transfer of environmentally sound technology, cooperation and capacity-building

  • Foreign direct investments
  • Share of environmentally sound goods imports and exports

Chapter 18: Protection of the quality and supply of freshwater resources

  • Annual withdrawals of ground and surface water
  • Domestic consumption of water per capita
  • Groundwater recharge rate
  • Concentration of faecal coliforms in freshwater
  • Biochemical oxygen demand in water bodies
  • Waste-water treatment
  • Density of hydrological networks
  • Expenditure on waste water management

Chapter 10: Integrated approach to the planning and management of land resources

  • Land use change
  • Land condition change

Chapter 13: Managing fragile ecosystems: Sustainable mountain development

  • Population dynamics in mountain areas

Chapter 15: Conservation of biological diversity

  • Threatened species as a percent of total native species
  • Protected area as a percent of total area

Chapter 16: Environmentally sound management of biotechnology

  • Number of applications for deliberate releases of GMOs(LMOs) and number
    of actual deliberate releases of GMOs (LMOs) including products
  • Existence of national biosafety regulations or guidelines

Chapter 9: Protection of the atmosphere

  • Emissions of greenhouse gases
  • Emissions of sulphur oxides
  • Emissions on nitrogen oxides
  • Consumption of ozone depleting substances
  • Ambient concentrations of pollutants in urban areas
  • Expenditure on air pollution abatement

Chapter 21: Environmentally sound management of solid wastes and sewage-related issues

  • Generation of industrial and municipal solid waste
  • Expenditure on waste management
  • Rate of waste recycling and reuse

Chapter 20: Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes

  • Generation of hazardous wastes
  • Imports and exports of hazardous wastes

Chapter 35: Science for sustainable development

  • Expenditure on research and experimental development as a percentage of GDP

Chapter 40: Information for decision-making

  • Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
  • Programmes for national environmental statistics

Attachment A-1, Attachment A-2 to Chapter 16

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