ABSTRACT
SUMMARY: This chapter aims at exploring why and how a sustainable environment can be integrated into human development. It focuses on the conceptual and practical lessons resulting from international and regional experiences pertaining to the environment and continual human development. The empirical works of the World Bank were presented which covered a wide range of environmental aspects in its relation to human growth. Practical and successful examples arising from these reviews focused on, the impact of economic, agricultural, food security, water, soil, and land systems’ restructuring. Other areas covered included the impacts of institutional and legal reforms, privatization, designing systems for risk management and ecological fluctuations, disaster management, early warning system for environmental crisis and disaster mitigation.
