Sustainable Development
 

Awakening Earth - Information in support of the awakening of culture and consciousness to achieve a sustainable and compassionate global future.

Canadian International Development Agency Policy for Environmental Sustainability - Discusses objectives, philosophical and practical basis, and commitments.

Centre for Sustainable Development - Interdisciplinary research group drawing on the knowledge and expertise of nine departments at Ghent University. [Duthc site with a section in English]

Combustion in the Rainforest: Ecology, Energy and Economy for a Sustainable Environment - A global holistic perspective to the world environmental predicament.

Cyclic Solar Safe - A free online course in sustainable product design, with a quiz and hundreds of product examples. Run by the non profit organisation BioThinking International.

Dempsey's Home Page - Advocates sustainable community development. Information on land use planning, software reviews and other topics.

The Empty Homes Agency - Highlighting the waste of empty homes and property throughout England: Information, solutions and statistics.

Environment and Sustainable Development - Papers on environment and sustainable development, with special attention to relevant issues in developing countries.

Environment Wales - National Assembly initiative in partnership with voluntary organisations for protecting and improving the environment. Includes information on partners, projects, and grants, with newsletter and downloadable registration pack.

Freshwater Solutions - United Kingdom company providing services in the development of aquaculture projects. Background on company, links, and contact information.

Green Globe Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development - Key information on the most important international agreements on environment and development, IGOs and NGOs working in this area, and environmental data on OECD countries.

Implementing Sustainable Development - Experiences and recommendations from national and regional consultations for the Rio+5 Forum. Overview and country reports.

Improving Community Participation in Environment and Development - Guide for natural resource managers and others working to help communities identify more sustainable resource management practices. Provides approaches, information and theory in related fields such as sustainable development, adaptive management, collaborative learning, facilitation, conflict resolution, information management and Internet use.

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development - News, background and other resources from coalition that seeks to bridge gap between proponents of trade and sustainable development.

Introduction to The Natural Step - A creative approach for addressing environmental challenges based on consensus, systems thinking and sharing a common framework of easily understood, scientifically-based principles. Being used by many large businesses worldwide.

Karla Bell and Associates - KBA develops environmental, social and economic policies for LGAs, cities and regions, UN forums, and federal and state agendas.

National Strategies for Sustainable Development - Planning tool for multi-donor project on Developing Country Dialogues on National Strategies for Sustainable Development.

The Natural Advantage - A book which presents human sustainability at work by applying the principles of organic growth to achieve results while renewing potential.

New Colonist, The - Site for people interested in visiting, moving to, or improving cities. Covers sustainable urban development, tourism and travel, and other urban issues.

Panos London - Independent, non-profit information agency producing news and analysis on topical, global issues with a developing country perspective.

Participatory approaches - Website that aims to promote participation in development though a focus on Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) information exchange.

Patterns of a Conservation Economy - Presents a bioregional pattern language, defining sectors of opportunity for the emerging sustainable economy of the 21st century.

SAGE (Sustainability Action Group Exchange) - An exchange forum for information sharing about best practice in sustainability. It features articles, projects, case studies, lectures, texts and links. Updated quarterly focusing on a particular theme or issue.

Signals of Change - Business Progress Towards Sustainable Development. Stephan Schmidheiny . Rodney Chase . Livio DeSimone.

Sustainable Development - At its third session in April 1995, the UN Commission "noted the importance of developing, among the organizations of the United Nations system, a common or compatible system of access to their respective data bases, in order to share data fully, to streamline the collection and interpretation of data and to identify data gaps, for the purpose of providing more comprehensive and integrated data to decision-makers at national, regional and international levels."

Sustainable Development - A Common Challenge for North and South - Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) article: From the point of view of sustainable development, all countries are "developing countries"...

Sustainable Development Gateway - The tri-lingual Sustainable Development Gateway provides access to over 1,200 links, a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, listservs, and news sites dealing with sustainable development.

Sustainable Development Online - Listing conferences, tools, education and training, SME support initiatives and networks, all personally screened by researchers.

Sustainable Development Web Page, The - Contains a bibliography, case studies, and links to related sites.

Sustainable Huron - Regional example of the social, economic and environmental variables in Sustainability. Huron County, Ontario.

Sustainable Life - Gateway and store of a wealth of online resources to help you find what you need to live a more healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

Sustainable Links - Colorado State educational site provides original material on permaculture, cooperative business, gardening, agriculture, community and architecture.

Threshold 21 - Computer-based development model - integrating human, economic and environmental concerns into one model - used to make efficient and effective development planning choices.

UK Sustainable Development Commission - Inspires government, the economy and society to embrace sustainable development as the central organising principle.

United Nations Sustainable Development - Dedicated to improving the well being of present and future generations through the promotion of sustainable development.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development - Organization of transnational corporations who advocate for cooperation between business and government to balance economic and environmental interests.

World Foundation for Environment and Development - works to sustain economic development and conserve the Earth¡¯s biological resources through facilitating equitable and efficient access and benefit-sharing frameworks and by producing targeted information tools designed to improve public understanding of the issues underlying environmental conflicts.

WWW Virtual Library: Sustainable Development - List of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, and databases.

Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development - Detailed and difficult-to-find data on the interrelationships between treaties, IGOs, NGOs and governments. Journal of the International Juridical Organization for Environment and Development provides updated, basic data on the progress made at environmental conventions and organizations