Country Profiles
This section gives a brief overview of selected SD strategy
features for 33 European countries.
Click on a country in the right hand map to
view its complete profile of selected SD strategy features
or select one from the following pull-down menu:
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The SD strategy features currently covered by the country profiles are
the following (click on the respective link for a brief introduction to
the listed SD strategy features):
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The information provided here is descriptive only and
is drawn from the following sources:
- Regular updates provided by the ESDN
members
- Country-specific websites on SD strategies
- The 2007 study "Analysis
of national sets of Structural and Sustainable Development Indicators"
(Lot 2 of Eurostats tender on "Improvement of the quality of the quality
of the Structural and Sustainable development indicators") commissioned
by Eurostat.
- Note 7353/06 from the General Secretariat to Delegations of the Council
of the European Union on the Subject “Review of the EU Sustainable
Development Strategy - National Sustainable Development Strategies; Brussels,
22 March 2006
- European
Commission (2004): National Sustainable Development Strategies in the
European Union: A first analysis by the European Commission”
- (IISD)
National Strategies for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Approaches
and Innovations in Strategic and Co-ordinated Action (Darren Swanson,
Laszlo Pinter, 2004)
Annex: European Country Case Studies: Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
- (EEAC) Sustaining Sustainability,
a benchmark study on national strategies towards sustainable development and
the impact of councils in nine EU member states. (Ingeborg Niestroy, 2005)
Annex: Individual Country
Analysis: (Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Sweden, United Kingdom)
- (OECD)
Good Practices in the National Sustainable Development Strategies of OECD
countries (2006)
- Inputs for the section on “evaluation, review and monitoring”,
were also derived from telephone conversations with national SD coordinators
of most EU Member States and other European countries during August 2006.
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