The environment : managing natural resources for sustainable development

has taken a leadership role in integrating environmental concerns into development programs. This report presents an overview of these efforts, which encompass a wide range of environmental issues and support environmenal training, research, and institutional development. The report"s opening section details A.I.D."s efforts to enlist host country support for environmental programs, with specific emphasis on improving natural resource management (especially in Africa), encouraging policy change, strengthening the private sector"s environmental role, and preparing environmental profiles of host countries and helping them develop conservation strategies. The ensuing sections recount A.I.D. efforts in particular topics of environmental concern (biological diversity and environmental health and safety), critical ecological areas (coastal areas and forests and fragile lands), and specific country programs (reforestation in Haiti). A brief history of the evolution of the Agency"s environmental strategy since 1976 is included.