Samoa 2006 State of Environment Report

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Samoa State of Environment Reports

The 2006 State of Environment Report (SOE) Report illustrates very clearly Samoa‟s environmental
vulnerabilities and challenges, as well as supporting the creation of a more enabling sustainable
development environment. Much of this Report, however, summarizes the current state of knowledge
about the environment of Samoa. It instigates the move towards identifying Sustainable
Environmental Management (SEM) indicators, and then covers them separately in the areas of
climate change and ozone depletion, coastal and marine resources, water resources, land resources,
tourism resources, forestry resources, biodiversity resources, even Samoa‟s socio-economic situation,
as well as institutional responses to natural resource management and development trends. This
Report provides valuable information and base-data to act as a gauge against which to measure the
future state of Samoa‟s environment.