Overview: By their adoption of Agenda 21, most of the world‘s governmentshave acknowledged the need for sustainable development. This impliesthat new policies are needed, focusing on economic, social, culturaland ecological goals. At the same time, we also need to solve existingenvironmental and social problems, and prevent the occurrence of newones. This volume presents, tests and illustrates a theoreticallywell-founded procedure for discovering regional opportunities forsustainable development, based on a systems approach to decisionmaking. The procedure takes as its starting point the needs
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