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title: Regional Workshop on National Sustainable Development Strategies
for
Asia and the Pacific
URL: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/nsds/Report_Bangkok03.pdf
description:
Approximately 70 people
attended a meeting in Bangkok from 29-31 October,
2003 on National Sustainable Development Strategies for Asia and the
Pacific. The meeting was jointly organized and co-sponsored by UN/DESA,
UNDP
and ESCAP.
The Workshop discussions were structured around the following main themes:
I. National sustainable
development strategies (NSDSs), their global status
and characteristics, and relevant national strategies in the Asia and
Pacific region;
i) Role of major groups in advocating for and participating in NSDSs
development and implementation;
ii) National implementation of NSDS and success stories;
II. Role of inter-governmental
institutions in promoting the goal for all
countries to be in the process of implementing their NDSD by 2005; and
III. Monitoring and assessment for sustainable development.
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title: Sustainable Livelihoods: The business connection (August 2002)
URL: http://www.wbcsd.ch/DocRoot/EgpL0aErK24J2EoQMRbn/20020924_sl.pdf
description:
This document lays
out the Sustainable Livelihoods project’s rationale and
parameters. It highlights case studies showing how business can successfully
adopt sustainable practices.
The case studies highlighted
exemplify ways of helping people toward
sustainable livelihoods through the win-win-win proposition of benefiting
the people themselves, their societies, and companies, by opening new
markets.
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title: Investing for Sustainable Development: Getting the conditions right
(July 2002)
URL:
http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/AZTD1U8QGjM6T5L3asVe/20020819_investing.pdf
description:
This report builds on a series of roundtables hosted in 2002 by the OECD.
It
outlines ways to attract investments into least developed economies and
advocates a greater coordination between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
and
Official Development Assistance (ODA) policies and practice.
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title: U.S. Evironmental Protection Agency’s 2003-2008 Strategic
Plan
http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/plan/plan.htm
description:
The Strategic Plan is built around five goals, centered on the themes
of air
and global climate change, water, land, communities and ecosystems, and
compliance and environmental stewardship. These themes reflect EPA’s
mission, “to protect human health and the environment.” In
addition, the
Plan discusses strategies the Agency is applying across all five goals,
in
areas such as science, human capital, innovation, information, homeland
security, partnerships, and economic and policy analysis.
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title: Working together towards sustainable development:the OECD experience
URL: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/49/1941659.pdf
description:
This Policy Brief sets out some of the main sustainable development
challenges that still face OECD countries, how obstacles to the necessary
reforms can be overcome, and some of the partnerships between OECD and
non-OECD countries that are needed to support a cooperative approach to
sustainable development globally. It summarizes the main messages of the
OECD report to the WSSD, “Working
Together Towards Sustainable Development:
The OECD Experience”, requested by OECD Ministers
when they met in May 2001.
MODULE 2: AGRICULTURE
ON SUBSISTENCE
AND HIGH PRODUCTIVITY LAND
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title: Study reveals that environmental damage threatens future world
food
production
URL: http://www.wri.org/press/page_agroecosystems.html
description:
World food production is at risk from farming methods that have degraded
soils, parched aquifers, polluted waters, and caused the loss of animal
and
plant species, according to a new report by the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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title: Global study reveals new warning signals: Degraded agricultural
lands
threaten world's food production capacity.
URL: http://www.wri.org/press/goodsoil.html
description:
The most comprehensive mapping of global agriculture to date reports that
nearly 40 percent of the world's agricultural land is seriously degraded,
which raises red flags about its long-term capacity to produce food.
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title: Awakening the 'Dead Zone': An investment for agriculture, water
quality, and climate change.
URL: http://pdf.wri.org/hypoxia.pdf
description:
Compares a number of policy options to reduce nutrient loss in the
Mississippi River Basin from agricultural sources, provide new income
sources for farmers, and help address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
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title: Sustainable Agriculture, Agenda 21, Chapter 14 (march 1997)
URL: http://www.wri.org/rio-5/acrobat/sustag.pdf
descirption:
Despite continued gains in food production, many people in many parts
of the
world remain hungry and malnourished. With global population growing by
90
million a year, demand for food will only intensify. Meanwhile,
unsustainable agricultural practices are compromising the natural resource
base upon which all food production depends. In many regions, land
productivity has begun to stagnate or even decline.
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title: Agriculture and the Environment: Partnership for a Sustainable
Future
URL:
http://www.worldbank.org/html/cgiar/publications/gef/CGIARGEF2002final.pdf
description:
The following pages describe the CGIAR-GEF partnership in action, working
to
improve the productivity and sustainability of key components and challenges
of agricultural development and environmental protection, biodiversity,
water resources, forests, and land degradation. These projects, anchored
in
strong partnerships, are contributing different elements to the overall
sustainable development agenda.
MODULE 3:
MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF
THE URBAN TRANSITION
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title: Urban Transition in Vietnam
URL: http://www.undp.org.vn/projects/vie00021/
description:
In emphasizing the opportunities to make timely policy decisions in this
early phase of Vietnam’s urban transition, the overarching purpose
of this
report is to assist in integrating spatial dynamics into development policy.
In showing how the urban transition, including rural-urban linkages, can
offer needed insights into national and local development policies, it
seeks
to assist in anticipating major transformations in the national
space-economy and to help chart strategic pathways for Vietnam’s
urban
future.
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title: Cities in Transition: Urban and Local Government Strategy
URL:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/External/Urban/UrbanDev.nsf/0/
6F8D329C20CF7AFD85256B18007BA52D?OpenDocument
description:
Winds of change affecting urban areas and local governments underscore
the
importance of urban development to national goals
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title: Cities in Transition: Urban Sector Review in and Era of
Decentralization in Indonesia
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/urban/publicat/indonesia.htm
description:
This Urban Sector Review analyzes the trends, achievements and difficulties
of a multi-faceted transformation in Indonesia. Against a background of
a
transfer of power and the associated growth of democratic local institutions
in the country’s 30 provinces, 416 districts and more than 50 cities
with
populations of 100,000 or more, the review concentrates on urbanization.
It
zeroes in on five general topics under the urban sector umbrella:
governance, urban finance, poverty alleviation, local economic development
and urban services. The review ends with the specification of strategic
frameworks, policy initiatives and action steps that will make Indonesia’s
cities engine of economic growth, effective providers of services and
centers of opportunity for the poor.
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title: The links between poverty and the environment in urban areas of
Africa, Asia and Latin America
URL: http://www.undp.org/seed/pei/publication/urban.PDF
description:
This paper suggests that there is little evidence of urban poverty being
a
significant contributor to environmental degradation but strong evidence
that urban environmental hazards are a major cause or contributor to urban
poverty. Indeed, for much of the poor urban population, environmental
hazards are among the main causes of ill-health, injury and premature
death.
This population also faces much larger environmental health burdens than
middle or upper income groups. This health burden can be greatly reduced
by
better environmental management.
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title: Reaching the Poor through Sustainable Partnerships: The Slum
Sanitation Program in Mumbai, India
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/urban/upgrading/docs/mumbai.pdf
description:
Despite all their efforts, the majority of cities in India have been
unsuccessful in meeting the sanitation needs of the poor. Today, one of
the
main challenges they face in this sector is to develop innovative
approaches, alternative to the centralized provision of sanitation services,
and do this in partnership with the communities of users. This note
describes the positive experience of the Municipal Corporation of Greater
Mumbai in implementing the WB-assisted Slum Sanitation Program in
partnership with the communities of slum dwellers, and draws lessons.
MODULE 4:
GOOD POLICIES AND GOOD INSTITUTIONS
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title: Good Governance in Sustainable Development
URL:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/sustainable_dev/
p2_means_implement/3009_good_governance.pdf
description:
For a society to be able to survive and prosper, it must be able to adapt
to
continuing changes in its environment. The global environmental has changed
dramatically in the last ten years. Yet, the adaptability of societies
to
change is different from one to another. In societies where there is an
effective government (governments that govern) within a democratic system,
the government is better equipped in adapting to new situations.
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title: Population and Sustainable Development:The Critical Role of Good
Governance
URL: http://www.unescap.org/pop/journal/2000/v15n2a2.pdf
description:
Sustainable development is a distinct possibility, but one that demands
the
political will to put into effect radical changes.
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title: Should companies try to do good?
URL: http://www.foundation.novartis.com/symposium/speech_paul_streeten.pdf
description:
Corporate leaders do not have a good reputation these days, above all
in the
USA, but also in Europe & Japan. Opinion polls show that they are
rated
slightly above second-hand car-salesman.
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title: Multi-stakeholder dialogue -a welcome innovation at CSD-6
URL:
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/csd_updates/csdup45/page2.htm
description:
The Industry Segment of CSD-6, hailed as innovative, provided an active
dialogue between the representatives of industry, trade unions, NGOs,
governments and international organizations. Four themes were discussed
at
four separate sessions over two days: responsible entrepreneurship;
corporate management tools; technology cooperation and assessment; and
industry and freshwater.
----------
title: Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development
URL:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/
prepcom4docs/governance_8055_integ.doc
description:
Ensuring an effective institutional framework for sustainable development
at
all levels is key to the realization of the goals of sustainable
development. To achieve these goals and to meet the emerging challenges,
the
sustainable development governance architecture needs to be strengthened
at
the international, regional and national levels as these are inextricably
linked and mutually interdependent.
MODULE 5:
NATIONAL COORDINATION, GLOBAL
PROBLEMS, AND LOCAL CONCERNS
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title: Nepal's National Coordination for Sustainable Development
URL: http://www.unescap.org/drpad/vc/conference/bg_np_12_nnc.htm
description:
Nepal has written a vision for sustainable development in the Constitution
that the protection of the environment is considered a priority and damage
to it from development will be prevented.
----------
title: Indigenous knowledge for sustainable development: National Strategy
and Framework of Action
URL: http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/8-1/nyiira.html
description:
The strategy developed for Uganda is aimed at empowering local communities
to utilize, exchange, develop, and protect indigenous knowledge (IK) and
to
promote its application within the development process. It encompasses
the
establishment of a system of national and international coordination and
cooperation, and the design of mechanisms to promote the use of IK in
development.
----------
title: Future Forests: Turning Consumers into Investors
URL: http://www.sustdev.org/journals/edition.02/download/sdi2_3_3.pdf
description:
For the past decade, governments and environmental organisations have
endeavoured to create a framework to reduce what are commonly known as
greenhouse gas emissions. Ten years is nothing - a twitch of an eye in
the
earth's history. To the individual, the same period of time seems an age,
particularly to a generation groomed to anticipate instant results.
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title: Using ILO Standards to Promote Environmentally Sustainable
Development
URL:
http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/dialogue/
actrav/enviro/trainmat/ilostand/guidep6.htm
description:
Think Globally - Act Locally. This slogan of the environmental movement
makes sense for trade unionists. Positive steps taken in the workplace
and
community contribute to a better world.
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title: Sustainable Development and the Environment
URL: http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/susdevenv.html
description:
Sustainable Development recognizes that all development decisions must
simultaneously consider aspects of Economy, Environment, and Equity. If
future generations are to enjoy a high quality of life, then this
generation's plans must include opportunities for our communities' most
disenfranchised stakeholders and they must guarantee the integrity of
our
natural resources.
MODULE 6:
INSTITUTION BUILDING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
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title: Sustainable Development: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
URL: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0402/ijge/gj05.htm
description:
Sustainable development is central to the World Bank's mission of reducing
poverty. Progress has been made on poverty reduction in the last 10 years,
and absolute poverty has been reduced by impressive amounts, even as poor
populations have grown. During the past generation, life expectancy has
increased by 20 years and the number of literate adults has doubled.
Nevertheless, nearly 3,000 million people -- almost half the world's
population -- live on less than $2 a day, over 1,500 million people do
not
have clean drinking water, and in the next 25 years the world's population
is expected to increase by an additional 2,000 million people, mostly
in
poor countries.
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title: New Focus for Land Tenure?
URL: http://www.wisc.edu/ltc/news80a5.html
description:
The relationship between human societies and the land they inhabit is
an
evolving historical process. The way this relationship is institutionalized
has major implications for the creation and distribution of wealth, social
and political harmony or disharmony, and the durability and renewability
of
ecological resources and values.
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title: "Marrakech Process" to Promote International Cooperation
on
Sustainable Consumption and Production
URL: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/csd_newsletter/csdup82b.htm
description:
An International Expert Meeting was held 16-19 June 2003 in Marrakech,
Morocco, to take initial steps towards implementing one of the key
commitments made by world leaders at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit: to
develop a 10-year framework of programmes for sustainable consumption
and
production. The meeting, with 115 participants from 59 countries and 9
international agencies, was organized by the UN Division for Sustainable
Development in cooperation with UNEP. It was chaired by the Secretary
of
State of the Environment of Morocco and the Ambassador for the Environment
of Sweden.
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title: Crisis and Creativity in Developing Communities
URL: http://www.arts-for-life.org/page11.html
description:
Most development professionals readily admit that our world is in a
development crisis: economic globalization is bypassing most of the world's
people; technological progress is destroying rather than envigorating
cultures; and standard approaches are failing to achieve sustainable
development at the grassroots level
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title: Sustainable global development: the issues
URL: http://home.wanadoo.nl/f.j.doorman/02Index2SummSD.htm
description:
This site is dedicated to promoting a new approach to eliminating poverty,
reversing environmental deterioration and generating sustained economic
growth that benefits all of humanity. The site has been developed by Frans
Doorman. No copy rights are claimed, but those using material are kindly
requested to name the source.
