Nothing teaches more than to understand a local problem in another context.
Welcome to "Local Sustainability," the European Good Practice Information Service. This guide to sustainable good practice was developed in 1996, and operated by the EURONET / ICLEI Consortium and has been developed with the financial support of the European Commission, Directorate General XI for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection. The entry of new cases was stopped in 1999.
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'Local Sustainability' has been conceived and developed as a service of many partners, disseminating and making accessible the good practice experiences of European cities, towns, counties and their associations, national and regional governments, research and educational institutions, and Directorate Generals of the European Commission.
Through ICLEI's role as the world wide Thematic Centre for "Local Sustainable Development and Environmental Management" within the framework of the UN-Habitat Best Practices Initiative, Local Sustainability will serve as the European arm of ICLEI's Information Clearinghouse network.
'Local Sustainability' was launched at the Second European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 October 1996. There, the European Good Practice Information Service received the endorsement of the European Commission.
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Three Key Services of 'Local Sustainability'
This guide to good practice in local sustainability
provides three services aimed to benefit urban environment professionals,
city managers and administrators, as well as elected representatives in
cities, who are working to develop sustainability initiatives.
The on-line service is available at this time in English, French and German. All cases and documents on the system are available in English. Many are also available in French or German. More will be added as resources for additional translation become available.
The original language of each document is noted in its directory listing.
The working language of the system may be changed at any time from the Home Page.
A navigational tool bar can be found at the bottom of every page of the on-line Information Service. The functions of the tool bar buttons are described below.
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Home Page will return you to the "Local Sustainability" Home Page where the language of the system may be changed. |
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Search the Information System using topics and keywords that you select, in order to find good practice cases of particular interest to you. |
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List of cases is an alphabetical listing, by the name of the relevant city, town or county, of all available good practice cases. |
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The Document Library is a collection of European and international policy documents. |
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What's new is a listing of what information has been added in the last month. |
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Feedback is a page where you are invited to provide comments on the system. Any updated information on texts or ideas for how the system could serve you better are particularly welcome. |
Below the tool bar is the eamil address of the site manager. Please feel free to contact the site manager if you have any questions or difficulties while using the 'Local Sustainability' European Good Practice Information Service.
Use of the Local Sustainability Database
The information on this system is free to download or print, and to distribute among colleagues for discussion or information purposes. However, the information available may not be altered, edited, further published or provided for fee without written permission from the EURONET/ICLEI Consortium.
Acknowledgements
The EURONET / ICLEI Consortium would like to express their thanks to the European Union's Expert Group on the Urban Environment, which consists of experts from all Member States of the European Union and is chaired by Professor Colin Fudge. The Expert Group's working programme includes the production of a policy report on European Sustainable Cities and Summary Documents aimed at specific target groups. The objective of the "Local Sustainability" European Good Practice Information System is to support the dissemination of the key messages developed by the Expert Group, and to facilitate the transfer of policy into action in the field of urban sustainability. The EURONET/ICLEI consortium would also like to thank the organisations that have provided much of the original material for the case descriptions (indicated on the cases), and, especially, the Urban Environment Unit of DG XI, which has constructively supported the development of the system.
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