Energy and transportation Energy and food production Energy and
natural resource management General suggestions for sectoral
integrated energy development programs Sectoral Integrated
Energy Development is an approach to resolving specific
development problems through the analysis of the relation
between energy and one or more other economic sectors. The
sectors that the OAS has evaluated in this manner are energy and
transportation in Colombia, Uruguay and most recently El
Salvador; energy and food in Panama and Costa Rica; and energy
and natural resource management in the English-speaking
Caribbean. Each of these programs has examined the role of
energy within an extremely important component of the countries'
respective economies. While these projects are sectoral by
nature, they focus on interconnections between components of
development in a similar fashion as the energy regionalization
projects. The importance of energy in the transportation sector
is evident from a few statistics: · Transportation acco