| Local Agenda 21 (LA21) is a programme
to forge partnerships between local authorities (such
as District Councils, Municipal Councils, City Councils
and City Halls) and the communities they serve to work
together to plan and care for their surroundings towards
sustainable development.
Through LA21, local communities will, together with
their local authority, identify and analyse local sustainable
development issues, and then formulate and implement
action plans to address them.
LA21 adopts a "bottom up" approach. That
is to say the local community themselves are involved
from the very initial planning stage.
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Sustainable development has been a widely debated topic
and has enjoyed many interpretations. For simplicity,
we would like to suggest the following descriptions which
have been widely referred to:
- Sustainable development is "Development that
meets the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs" -Our Common Future, the final report of
the World Commission on Environment and Development
(also known as the Brudtland Commission), 1987.
- Sustainable development is a process of bringing
Economic Development, Community Development and Ecological
Development to balance with each other--The Local
Agenda 21 Planning Guide, ICLEI
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