Biodiversity is managed and valued locally but also provides value globally, attracting many interest groups. Formal biodiversity assessments have tended to emphasise global values. But this focus is being replaced by awareness that pluralist, adaptive management of biological resources needs biodiversity assessments able to express and communicate multiple values of biodiversity. This review looks at some of the assessment tools on offer, and some examples of actual practice, to identify how biodiversity assessments do - and how they could - integrate the different values that people attach to biological variety and variability.

Agenda 21 called on all countries to develop and implement sustainable development strategies – a need focused on again by the preparatory process for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. For such strategies to be effective in every country, there needs to be a real commitment by government, the private sector, and civil society to work together in a true partnership, in transparent ways which enable genuine stakeholder participation, and to co-ordinate necessary mechanisms and processes to enable continuous learning and improvement.The Resource Book provides flexible, non-prescriptive guidance on how to develop, assess, and implement national development strategies.

This is one of six Indian sub-studies produced to support the Instruments for Sustainable Private Sector Forestry project conducted by IIED, and forms part of the book  'The New Foresters: The role of private enterprise in the Indian forestry sector', order code 9063IIED. Alternatively you can purchase the set of six Indian sub-studies for only US$60, order code 9190XIIED. 

This is one of six Indian sub-studies produced to support the Instruments for Sustainable Private Sector Forestry project conducted by IIED, and forms part of the book  'The New Foresters: The role of private enterprise in the Indian forestry sector', order code 9063IIED. Alternatively you can purchase the set of six Indian sub-studies for only US$60, order code 9190XIIED. 

This is one of six Indian sub-studies produced to support the Instruments for Sustainable Private Sector Forestry project conducted by IIED, and forms part of the book  'The New Foresters: The role of private enterprise in the Indian forestry sector', order code 9063IIED. Alternatively you can purchase the set of six Indian sub-studies for only US$60, order code 9190XIIED. 

On this CD Rom you will find full text of key publications of IIED's Strategies, Planning and Assessment Programme (SPA), and its predecessor, the Environmental Planning Group (1993-2002). Included are the full texts of all the reports in the Environmental Planning Issues series and other documents covering methods, approaches and policy lessons.

Society’s continuing need for minerals is clear. However, the way in which minerals are extracted, processed, used and recycled – in the context of sustainable development – is less than clear and often bitterly controversial. This publication presents the principal conclusions of the IIED/WBCSD project Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) – the most ambitious study yet undertaken on the role of minerals in sustainable development.