Peru, South Africa, Colombia, Uganda, Cuba, Nigeria, Ecuador, India, Turkey
This includes papers on~- Community-level local agenda 21s in Manizales and in Lima.~Land invasion and model house building in Cape Town.~-Information and participation within environmental management.~Addressing children’s needs in urban areas.~Sustainable manufacturing.~Pro-poor urban regeneration.~Partnerships for Local Agenda 21s.~Urban agriculture in Havana and in Nigerian cities.~Waste collection and management in Madras and in Quito.~Local Agenda 21 in Ilo, Peru.~Disaster preparedness in Turkey.~Incorporating gender issues in quality of life research.~~It also includes three papers on participatory tools and methods:~- Research on violence with examples from Colombia and Guatemala.. Indicators for users and suppliers of environmental services. Environmental health information systems

This paper is by a leading NGO protagonist in the heated international debate on forest issues. He describes how bad international policy can undermine national or local policies and also how the better initiatives have sparked off progressive policy and change at many other levels. Much is owed to the hard work of NGOs and many challenges remain.

This report charts the evolution of policies that affect forests and how the timber first orientation of forestry is giving way to more collaborative policy and forest management, and discusses the major challenges ahead. After years of “thinf falling apart it seems that Ghanaian forestry is beginning to fall into place.

The forest sector in Papua NewGuinea, well-endowed with tropical forest, mostly held under customary title by the local people, is in a mess. The national policy process centres on a struggle between the logging industries and donor agencies for the hearts and minds of the resource owners. The problems and opportunities in establishing common ground for a wider coalition of interests to be built are examined in this report.