This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will include handbooks on national strategies for sustainable development, local strategies, assessing progress towards sustainability, biodiversity action plans, .involving indigenous peoples, and on integrating population and resource use planning; and regular companion volumes of case studies addressing the key issues of concern to strategy implementation. Many international agreements and action plans now call for countries to undertake national strategies. These strategies seek to involve communities in united approaches to sustainable development. Some are sectoral, such as tropical forest strategies, others are thematic, covering topics such as biodiversity, education or climate change. Still others, such as national conservation strategies and national environment action plans, are evolving to become more comprehensive processes, drawing together economic, social and environmental development actions. This handbook is for people involved in strategies. It draws on experiences in different regions of the world to present options and examples of the role of strategies in sustainable development. Originally published in 1995

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Overview
Part 1
Part2
The Strategy Cycle
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Getting Started
Planning the Strategy
Implementing the Strategy
Keeping Strategies on Track
Part 3
Chapter 10
References
Resources to Drive the Strategy
Financing Strategies and the Role of~xten~al Agencies
Glossary
Index
Ten Lessons and Features of National Strategies for Sustainability
The Twin Pillars of Sustainable Development
Signs of Unsustainability
Agenda 21 and Caring for the Earth
Some Benefits of Strategies
Various Types of National Strategy
Many Strategies but no Strategy? The Case of British Columbia
Trends Observed as Participation Increases
Participatory Inquiry
Participation in some National Strategies
An Important role for Gocal government
Why is it Difficult to Institutionalize Participation?
Communication Strategies
Staff Resources in National Strategy Secretariats
Objectives and Indicators: an Example from the Netherlands
Suggested Components of Analysis
A Sustainable Development Information System
Australia's National Strategy for Sustainable Development
Changes Likely to be Covered by an Action Plan
Mediation, Conflict Resolution and Arbitration: an Australian Example
Principles for Sustainable Development Law
Examples of Market-Based Approaches for Environmental Policy
Assessment in a Local Strategy in Pakistan
Ten Lessons for Donors
The Pakistan NCS: Turning the Plan into Action
National Environment Funds (NEFs)
Bolivia's NEF
Colombia's NEF
Classification of Selected Environment and Development Strategies
Cost of Selected Strategies
Overview of Some National Environment Funds
Relationship between People and the Earth
Sustainable Development: Integration of Objectives
An Example of a Single-Track Strategy Process
The Strategy Cycle
Ecosystem Information Levels
Society Information Levels
People-Ecosystem Information Levels
Strategy Components