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This is one of a series of regional reviews of multi-sectoral strategies for sustainability at the national, provincial and local levels, complementing the volume on Strategies for National Sustainable Development. They have been prepared with the assistance of the World Bank, UNDP, UNSO, IIED and WRI.
Each volume summarizes the status of strategies in the region, reviews and analyzes case studies to provide an analytical history and status report on each strategy. The information has not hitherto been available, and will be very valuable for practitioners and policy makers, as well as for students of development and of the regions ... Read more

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This report summarizes a workshop organized by the National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. The workshop brought together a select group of program managers from the public and private sectors to discuss specific cases of linking knowledge to action in a diverse set of integrated observation, assessment, and decision support systems. Workshop discussions explored a wide variety of experiments in harnessing science and technology to goals of promoting development and conserving the environment. Participants reflected on the most significant challenges that they have faced when trying to implement their programs and the strategies that they have used to address them successfully. The report summarizes discussions at the workshop, including common themes about the process of linking knowledge with actions for sustainable development that emerged across a wide range of cases, sectors, and regions. ... Read more

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The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While institutions appear to play an important role in the economic success of many countries, this book considers the extent to which they also support sustainable development. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Public Manager, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 2551 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sustainable development and resilience in public agencies: sustainability planning--in Cape Cod, Alberta, and other regions--helps organizations meet their goals and benefit the surrounding systems.
Author: Deniz Leuenberger
Publication: The Public Manager (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35Issue: 3Page: 8(5)

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IUCN - The World Conservation Union

Founded in 1948, The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse' range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries.

As a Union, IUCN seeks to influence encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

The World Conservation Union builds on the strengths of its members, networks and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural resources at local, regional and global levels.

The Strategies for Sustainability Programme

The Strategies for Sustainability Programme of IUCN works to strengthen strategic planning, policy and implementation skills aimed at sustainable development at global, national and local levels.

Working with Networks of strategy practitioners from member governments, partner institutions and NGOs, the Programme assists in the conceptual development and analysis of experience in strategies, the development of a range of strategic planning and action planning skills, and improved methods of assessing human and ecosystem well being. ... Read more

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At the Edge is a rich and evocative call to action at a time when new ideas are urgently needed. Mandatory reading for policy analysts and decision makers in the public, private, and volunteer sectors, it will be equally useful to scholars, teachers, students, and others interested in creating sustainable societies. Throughout the world, biophysical evidence is mounting that human growth and activity patterns are slowly destroying the earth. This ecological deterioration is accompanied by similar social and economic decline, with potentially grave consequences for the continued existence of human societies.

Yet, as Ann Dale compassionately argues, it is not too late to take action. Hope lies in sustainable development -- the fundamental human imperative of the 21st century. Sustainable development, in Dale's view, is the process of reconciling three imperatives: the ecological, the social, and the economic. Equitable access to resources in all three spheres is fundamental to the global realization of sustainable development. This will not be realized without strong leadership by governments at all levels. Ultimately needed is a new framework for governance based on human responsibility and a recognition of the interconnectedness of human and natural systems. ... Read more

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This is one of a series of regional reviews of multi-sectoral strategies for sustainability at the national, provincial and local levels, complementing the volume on Strategies for National Sustainable Development. They have been prepared with the assistance of the World Bank, UNDP, UNSO, IIED and WRI.
Each volume summarizes the status of strategies in the region, reviews and analyzes case studies to provide an analytical history and status report on each strategy. The information has not hitherto been available, and will be very valuable for practitioners and policy makers, as well as for students of development and of the regions ... Read more

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Our escalating consumption of natural products andservices directly impacts the planet. The challengeis to ensure that our needs are not exceeding theecological capacity of the biosphere. But how toknow if they do so? To answer this question andassess the human impact on nature, Wackernagel andRees have developed Ecological Footprint that canmeasure how much natural capital we use to sustainour lifestyles and how much capital nature canprovide us. On the other hand, to be able to present in a singlemeasure for each economy and to focus strictly onthe environmental issues, World Economic Forum (WEF)developed Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI).The ESI creates a series of comparative benchmarksof environmental decision-making onto a more fact ?based and analytical function. This book analyzes the current situation ofsustainable development indicators and discusses theconcepts of the EF and the ESI and explores theapplication of the EF and ESI to the regional levelby Case Study: Sustainability of Shandong. EF and ESI is an essential addition to the study andmanagement of reginal to be sustainable. ... Read more

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This volume reviews the state of the art in conducting sustainability assessments, including the range of methodologies and tools available. It describes current practice in OECD countries, as well as the continuing debate on quantifying and comparing diverse types of short- and long-term policy impacts. 

Table of Content :

Workshop Overview by Candice Stevens
PART I. DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS
Chapter 1. Sustainability Impact Assessment: European Approaches by Gerald Berger
Chapter 2. Sustainability Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment by Kerstin Arbter
Chapter 3. Sustainability Impact Assessment and Regulatory Impact Assessment by Ingeborg Neistroy
PART II. IDENTIFYING TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS
Chapter 4. The Sustainability A-Test by Marjan van Herwijnen
Chapter 5. The Role of Tools in Impact Assessments by Anneke von Raggamby
Chapter 6. Using Assessment Tools in the Policy Contest by Donald Macrae
PART III. CONDUCTING SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS
Chapter 7. Balancing Interests in Sustainability Assessments by Daniel Wachter
Chapter 8. Assessing the Energy Contributions to Sustainability by Helene Connor
Chapter 9. Assessing the Sustainability of Trade Policies and Agreements by Colin Kirkpatrick and Clive George

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In particular radical innovations can be important means to achieving improved sustainability. Due to the existence of path dependency and lock-in, however, the transition from one technological trajectory to another, more sustainable one is often impeded by significant barriers. Fortunately, these barriers are by their nature subject to substantial changes in time; so, it makes sense to carefully distinguish between periods of stability (showing high barriers) in which the given trajectory can hardly be left and periods of instability (characterized by low barriers) where a new trajectory can be reached more easily. The latter distinction matters since sustainable innovations often rely on governmental regulation and the economic burden arising from this regulation will be much lower in periods of instability. Moreover, due to the complexity and dynamics of change in their respective environments, innovations are generally associated with fundamental uncertainty such that it becomes impossible to predict the degree of sustainability yielded by specific innovations in the longer run. Under these circumstances, it is essential to facilitate the change between trajectories and to allow for the possibility to select between a variety of alternative trajectories within a process of trial and error. Sustainability as viewed from this evolutionary perspective is therefore better understood as the general capability to adapt, that is, to readily change from less to more sustainable technological trajectories. Since the latter kind of sustainability determines the conditions under which the former kind (i.e. sustainability related to a specific technology) can be achieved, the two kinds are respectively called second-order and first-order sustainability. Finally, a series of determinants (and corresponding indicators) from the techno-economic, political, and socio-cultural sphere is identified which, after proper measurement and weighting, allow for making an assessment whether and when the incumbent industry is sufficiently destabilized and the political system rendered sufficiently favorable to the new, more sustainable technology such that a transition to the preferred trajectory is possible without too much effort. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Environmental Management, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper explores the apparent contradiction between the 'linearity' of most Sustainable Development projects, with time-bound and defined outputs achieved at a fixed cost, and an implied 'circularity' of the theory whereby there is no 'end'. Projects usually have clear parameters within which they are implemented, and the inclusion of elements such as the need for accountability, measurable impact and 'value for money' have grown in importance. It could be argued that we live in a 'projectified' and therefore linear world. The paper explores the potential contradiction between 'linearity' and 'circularity', and suggests that one way around this is to frame the project within a form of the Kolb Learning Cycle heuristic. This will facilitate a rationalisation from those implementing the sustainable development project as to why decisions are being made and for whom. If these questions are opened up to the project stakeholders, including beneficiaries, then the Kolb cycle could encourage learning and understanding by all involved. It could also provide Sustainability Therapy to those trapped in processes, which they find orthogonal to their own perceptions. It is suggested that such learning, therapy and reflective practice should be a valid output of the sustainable development project, although typically the focus is only upon the final outputs and how they feed into policy. Ironically funders would be well advised to take a broader perspective in order to achieve true 'value for money' within such projects, even if learning is not an easily measurable or tangible outcome. These points are explored within the context of the wider literature and experience with a sustainable development project undertaken in Malta. ... Read more

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USAID, MEPI, UNESCO, IREX ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers and case studiesderived from invited papers. The contributions address two keyproblems: (i) natural, technological and environmental risks, riskprevention and sustainable development; and (ii) science, risk andsociety. The papers provide an invaluable insight into, and archivalrecord of the relationship between risk, science, and society in aworld that has become more turbulent since the tragic events of 11September 2001. The papers from scientists, policy makers, andpractitioners cover the topics of risk, sustainability, science, andsociety and are of value for natural and social scientists, teachers,students, economists, and politicians. The book can also be read withprofit by authorities responsible for public safety, risk management,and risk mitigation plans, and insurance companies. ... Read more