Text Box: CAUSAL CHAIN RELATIONSHIP FOR PRIORITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Specific Basic Causeses
Text Box: Direct Causes
(natural origin)
 Text Box: Environmental
Problems
 Text Box: Direct Causes
(human origin)



Text Box: § Deficient political, legal, and institu-tional framework
§ Poor inter-jurisdictional planning and co-ordination
§ Inadequate community awareness, knowledge, and participation in sustainable re-source man-agement
§ Deficient financial and support mechanisms
§ Inadequate ac-cess to and ap-plication of sus-tainable tech-nologies


Adverse natural conditions (soil, topography, geology, climate)

. Insufficient use of water resources

. Insufficient infrastructure for water regulation

. Limited knowledge of the potentially usable nat. resources

- Rainfall seasonality

- Reduced water availability in the dry season

- High sediment load and fluviomorphologic dynamics

- High groundwater salinity contents

- Extreme river highflows

- Extreme climatic events
Text Box: ANNEX V
Text Box: • Over-exploitation of forest resources
• Uncontrolled fishing and hunting ac-tivities
§ Clearing of land for agriculture
§ Inadequate agricultural practices
§ Overgrazing
§ Pollution of water sources


. Improper soil use

. Unsustainable agroforestry practices

. Inadequate sanitation infrastructure

. Deficient information on monitoring of water quality

. Lack of land-use regulation plan

. Lack of biodiversity management plans

. Unsustainable agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry practices

. Insufficient knowledge of the native flora and fauna

. Unplanned urban and rural development

. Limited infrastructure for hazard reduction, control and protection

. Lack and inadequate application of emergency plans

. Inadequate infrastructure to support production

. Insufficient utilization of the natural resources potentialities

. Limitations and deterioration of natural resources

. Insufficient sanitation and water-supply infrastructure
Text Box: § Urban expansion in flood-susceptible areas
§ Agricultural activities in areas prone to flooding events
§ Destruction of vegetation along river banks and waterheads


Flowchart: Terminator: Loss of Biodiver-sity and Biotic Re-sources

Text Box: § Contamination by industrial and ur-ban wastes
§ Water misuse and contamination by agricultural and livestock activities
§ Soil degradation and erosion
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· Rainfall seasonelly

· Reduced water availability in the dry season

· High sediment

Load and fluviomorfologic dynamics

· High groundwater salinity contens

· Extreme river highflows

· Extreme climatic events

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