Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (382 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136555749
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=429974
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1. About the resource book -- Aims -- Target audience -- Layout -- How to use this resource book -- 2. Sustainable development and the need for strategic responses -- The opportunity for a strategic approach to national development -- Organization of this chapter -- The challenges of environment and development -- Trends and major challenges -- Economic disparity and political instability -- Extreme poverty -- Under-nourishment -- Disease -- Marginalization -- Population growth -- Consumption -- Global energy use -- Climate change -- Nitrogen loading -- Natural resource deterioration -- Loss of diversity -- Pollution -- Growing water scarcity -- Other urban problems -- Interactions between social, economic and environmental problems -- International responses to the challenges of sustainable development -- The emergence of sustainable development as a common vision -- Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) -- Environmental monitoring and assessment -- Economic instruments -- Engaging the private sector -- New technologies -- Financing sustainable development -- Governance - and the twin trends of decentralization and globalization -- Decentralization -- Globalization -- Focus on national strategies for sustainable development: a Rio commitment and one of the seven internationaldevelopment goals -- Guidance to date on strategies for sustainable development -- Why a strategic approach to sustainable development is needed -- The need for structural changes -- Difficulties in introducing changes -- What being strategic means -- 3. The nature of sustainable development strategies and current practice -- Introduction -- What are sustainable development strategies?.
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Key principles for developing sustainable development strategies -- Learning from current practice: existing strategy frameworks -- Building on national level strategies -- National development plans -- Sector and cross-sectoral plans and strategies -- Plans and strategies related to conventions -- National forest programmes (NFPs) -- National conservation strategies (NCSs) -- National environmental action plans (NEAPs) -- National Agenda 21s and National Councils for Sustainable Development -- National visions -- Comprehensive development frameworks -- Poverty reduction strategies -- Sub-national strategies -- Decentralized development planning -- Village and micro-level strategies -- Convergence and links between national, sub-national and local strategies -- Regional approaches to developing strategies -- 4. Key steps in starting or improving strategies for sustainable development -- Harnessing effective strategic mechanisms in a continual-improvement system -- Scoping exercise -- Establishing or strengthening a strategy secretariat or coordinating body -- Establishing or strengthening a strategy steering committee or equivalent forum -- Seeking or improving political commitment for the strategy -- Establishing or confirming a mandate for the strategy -- Ensuring broad ownership of the strategy -- Securing strategy 'ownership' and commitment by all ministries -- Securing strategy 'ownership' and commitment by civil society and the private sector -- Mobilizing the required resources -- Harnessing the necessary skills -- Bringing institutions and individuals on board -- Raising the financial resources -- Identifying stakeholders and defining their roles in the strategy -- Typical roles of the main actors in strategy processes, and constraints faced -- Politicians and leaders -- Public authorities -- The private sector -- Civil society.
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Donor agencies -- Mapping out the strategy process, taking stock of existing strategies and other planning processes -- Seeking to improve coherence and coordination between strategy frameworks at all levels -- Coherence, coordination (and convergence) of national strategic frameworks -- Focusing strategic objectives at the right level - from regional to local, and between sectors - and ensuring coherence and coordination there -- Establishing and agreeing ground rules governing strategy procedures -- Establishing a schedule and calendar for the strategy process -- Promoting the strategy -- The role of experiments and pilot projects -- Establishing and improving the regular strategy mechanisms and processes -- 5. Analysis -- Approaching and organizing the tasks of analysis -- Introducing the main analytical tasks in NSDS processes -- Challenges in analysis for sustainable development strategies -- Effective strategies depend on sound information -- Sustainable development is complex and difficult to analyse -- Capacities to analyse sustainable development are often weak -- There are dangers in relying on narrow, non-local, out-of-date or unreliable information -- Basic principles for analysis -- Engage and inform stakeholders within democratic and participatory processes -- Use accessible and participatory methods of analysis -- Include roles for independent, 'expert' analysis -- Develop a continuing, coordinated system of knowledge generation -- Agree criteria for prioritizing analysis -- Ensure the objectives of the analysis are clear -- Agree the types of output from the analysis, and who will get them -- An introduction to methods available for analysis -- Analysing stakeholders in sustainable development -- Why stakeholder analysis is important -- Identifying stakeholders -- Using an issues-based typology -- Ways to identify stakeholders.
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Stakeholder representation -- Identifying stakeholder interests, relations and powers -- Identifying stakeholders' interests -- Analysing the relationships between stakeholders -- Analysing stakeholders' powers -- Comparing stakeholders' powers with their potential for sustainable development -- Limitations of stakeholder analysis -- Approaches to measuring and analysing sustainability -- Accounts -- Narrative assessments -- Indicator-based assessments -- Contributing measurements and analyses -- Spatial analysis -- System of national accounts -- Genuine domestic savings -- Ecological footprint 142 -- Natural resource, materials and energy accounts -- Human Development Index -- Sustainable livelihoods analysis -- Policy influence mapping -- Problem trees and causal diagrams -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Community-based issue analy -- Deciding what to measure: a framework of parts and aims -- Deciding how to measure: choosing indicators -- Seeing the big sustainability picture: generating in -- Identifying priority sustainability issues: using a rigorous, routine system -- Analysing sustainable development mechanisms and processes -- Steps in analysing the component mechanisms -- Analysing the legal framework for sustainable development -- Analysing the economic context -- Describing how the mechanisms link up -- Scenario development -- The purpose and limitations of scenarios -- Organizing scenario development -- Some illustrations of sustainable development scenarios -- 6. Participation in strategies for sustainable development -- Introduction -- Understanding participation -- Multiple perceptions, expectations and definitions of 'participation' -- Typologies of participation - and associated dilemmas -- 'Horizontal' and 'vertical' channels for participation - and associated dilemmas.
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Why participation is needed in strategies for sustainable development -- Ensuring effective participation - issues and planning requirements -- Scoping the basic requirements -- Consideration of costs and benefits of participation -- Clarity of expectations -- Consideration of scale and links -- Representation, selection and intermediarie -- Infrastructure, organization and legal framework for participation -- Planning for participation in strategies -- Methods for participation in strategies -- Participatory learning and action -- Community-based resource planning and management -- Participation in decentralized planning systems -- Multi-stakeholder partnerships -- Focusing on consensus, negotiations and conflict resolution -- Working in groups -- Facilitation -- Participants' responsibilities -- Rapporteurs -- Meeting agendas -- Market research, electronic media and other remote methods -- 7. Communications -- Introduction -- Shifting values, attitudes and styles -- Establishing a communications and information strategy and system -- An information, education and communications strategy and action plan -- Coordination of information -- Internal coordination - focus on creating a shared information base -- External coordination - using a wide range of methods -- Choosing the medium, and developing complementary information products -- Documents and audio-visual material -- Events -- Managing dialogue and consensus-building during meetings -- Establishing networks, or making links with existing networks -- Establishing databases, or making links with existing databases -- Use of electronic media -- Electronic democracy -- Mass media -- Monitoring the communication process -- 8. Strategy decision-making -- The scope of strategy decisions -- Strategic vision -- Strategic objectives -- Targets -- Triggers -- Action plan -- Institutional plan.
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Challenges, principles and useful frameworks for making strategy decisions.
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