Challenges for a Sustainable Minnesota draft report discusses how best to pursue sustainable development in Minnesota. The document offers a vision, new decision-making principles and six strategies for achieving sustainable development: Align Minnesota's economic incentives and goals
Understand what is environmentally sustainable
Integrate natural resources management
Advance sustainable land use and community development policies
Ask government to take the first steps
Focus research on sustainable development issues
After public review was completed in February 1996, this draft document was used by the Minnesota Round Table on Sustainable Development to translate these recommendations into action. The round table, a group of 30 business, environmental and community leaders, aimed to finish their work by 1998.
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Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Sustainable development initiative
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Minnesota Planning (Agency)
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Minnesota
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