Getting to grips with green plans : national-level experience in industrial countries

Boxes, Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Preface Executive Summary Part I: Overview and Synthesis 1. Introduction Background The Research 2. Approaches and Stimuli The Stimulus of UNCED and Environmental Concern 3. Focus of Green Plans and Strategies Sustainable Development Strategies Environmental Strategies and Plans Special Focus Studies 4. Duration, Time Frames, Mandates and Management Approaches Duration of Development Process Mandates and Terms of Reference Strategy Management Processes 5. Participation in Green Plans and Strategies Participatory Approaches Consultative Approaches Predominantly Internal Government Processes 6. Links to Other Strategy and Planning Processes Regional Strategies Links to Budget Processes Links to National Planning Sub-National Strategies Local Agenda 21s Convention Strategies 7. Politics, Governance and Legislation Political Influences Cabinet and Parliamentary Reviewing Debate Legislative and Institutional Consequences of Strategies 8. Conclusions Towards Sustainable Development Strategies Developed and Developing Country Approaches Briefly Compared Challenges Part 11: Country Case Studies 9. Australia The National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development (NSESD) 10. Canada The Green Plan The Projet de Sociktk 11. Denmark Foundationsfor Strategic Environmental Planning Nature and Environment Policy 12. France Plan National pour I'Environnement French Commission for Sustainable Development 13. Latvia 14. The Netherlands National Environmental Policy Plans Action Plan: Sustainable Netherlands 15. New Zealand The Resource Management Act and the Environment 2010 Strategy 16. Norway Reports to Parliament on the Follow-Up to the Report of the Brundtland Commission (No 46), and on UNCED (No 13) 17. Poland National Environmental Policy 18. Sweden Towards Sustainable Development in Sweden: Government Bill 1993/4:111 182 An Environmentally Adapted Society: The Action Programme of the Environmental Protection Agency: Enviro '93 19. United Kingdom Sustainable Development: The UK Strategy 20. United States of America President's Council on Sustainable Development National Environmental Goals Project 21. The European Union 22. Green Planning and Strategy Processes in Some Other Industrial Countries Austria Germany Ireland Japan Portugal Russia Appendices 1. Questionnaire for Structured Interviews 2. Useful Contacts Acronym References Further Reading Index