ECODIT assisted the Ministry of Environment in preparing the Lebanon 2001 State of the Environment Report. The 2001 SOER uses a "dual framework” methodology to describe and analyze environment-development linkages in Lebanon. It describes the state of different environmental media (water, air, biodiversity, and soil/land) and the key linkages between them and various socio-economic development sectors (population, agriculture, industry, construction, transport, tourism and recreation, and energy). During the course of the preparation for the 2001 SOER, ECODIT met with more than 60 professionals and key stakeholders and reviewed about 150 new reports and references to provide the most up-to-date assessment of the state of the environment in Lebanon. ECODIT prepared the 2001 SOER (240 pages) in English, Arabic, and in HTML format for easy browsing on the internet.