Environment contributes both directly and indirectly to economic development and employment, as stated by the UNDP-UNEP-Poverty-Environment program, and this contribution is particularly important in developing countries, since the key sectors impacted by the environment are: agriculture,, energy, forest, fishing, and tourism.
On the other side Local Economic Development can contribute to protect environment in a very effective way, because local actors are very interested to save the local environment for the future survival of their human and natural resources.
This paper shows the interdependence between environment and local economic development mainly through best practices, by which it derives interesting learned lessons about how to make in practice strategies and actions for environmental protection and environmental economy at local level.
