ABSTRACT
In 1972 the United Nations was active in Yugoslavia. Attention is drawn to two of the major principles of the 1972 United
Nations Declaration on Human Environment:
i) Principle 14 - which declares 'that national planning constitutes an initial tool for reconciling the conflict between the need to develop and the need to protect, and improve the environment; and,
ii) Principle 15 - which advocates 'that planning must be applied to human settlements and urbanization with a view to avoiding adverse effects on the environment and obtaining maximum social, economic and environmental benefits [1],
UNDP Project YUG-72-004(1972) had its origins in these two principles, as well as in findings and recommendations of two prior UNDP projects, the South and Upper Adriatic projects, which were primarily concerned with physical planning for tourists and related developments.
