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Chapter 6 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores the supports offered by municipalities and other local agencies in developing local environmental health action. It also discusses on how national environmental health action plan (NEHAP) process encourages and inspires local action and local planning process.

Chapter 5 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It discusses the process of decentralization of environmental health management between regional and local government. It also explores the basic structure of regional administration of environmental health services that varies widely across Europe.

Chapter 4 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores the development of the national environmental action programs (NEAPs) from the principles of environmental action program (EAP) for environmental protection. It also discusses the meaning of the NEAP process, and how it was carried out.

Chapter 3 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores the ten stages in developing local environmental health action plan (LEHAP) which starts from initial preparatory towards the evaluation of LEHAP process. It also discusses how the steering committee evaluates the LEHAP planning process, along with the reasons for evaluating environmental health actions.

Chapter 2 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores international frameworks, national plans and local actions towards sustainable development. It also discusses the context and history of Agenda 21, a program of action for sustainable development worldwide and the principles behind the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development during the 1992 World Health Organization (WHO) Conference in Rio.

Chapter 1 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores the importance of environmental health policy that was addressed during several conferences of the World Health Organization (WHO). It also identifies a series of driving forces that create the conditions in which threat to environmental health can develop or be averted.

A preface for the January 2002 issue of "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented.