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Europe > Bosnia and Herzegovina > Environment

BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 34.07% [15th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 1.46 % of GNI ... [16th of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.13 % of GNI ... [125th of 165]
Areas under protection 21 [88th of 146]
    (per capita) 4.74041 per 1 million people [63rd of 146]
Breeding birds threatened 1.38% [101st of 136]
Carbon efficiency 2.04 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [34th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 14,269.4 [79th of 178]
    (per capita) 3.22108 per 1,000 people [69th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.81 kg/PPP$ ... [24th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 19,124.52 kt ... [79th of 195]
    (per capita) 4.881 kt per 1,000 people ... [75th of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3 ... [35th of 75]
Current issues
air pollution from metallurgical plants; sites for disposing of urban waste are limited; water shortages and destruction of infrastructure because of the 1992-95 civil strife; deforestation
Ecological footprint 1.29 [95th of 141]
Endangered species protection 0.00% (2000) [139th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 618.8 hundred grams/hectare [74th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 42.68 % of land area ... [58th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 21,850 km² ... [101st of 195]
    (per capita) 5,592.42 km² per 1,000 people ... [73rd of 195]

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SOURCES: Stockholm Environment Institute at York, Acidification in Developing Countries: Ecosystem Sensitivity and the Critical Loads Approach at the Global scale, 2000 via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; 2000 IUCN Red List, and World Resources Institute,World Resources 2000-2001, Washington, DC: WRI, 2000. Original sources: World Conservation Monitoring Center, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosna i Hercegovina, bosnia & herzegovina, bosnia and h., bosnia and herzegowina, bosnia-hercegovina, bosnia-herzegovina

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