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EUROSTAT Sustainable Development Indicators
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EUROSTAT
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Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Assessment tools
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The EU Sustainable Development Strategy, adopted by the European Council in Gothenburg in June 2001, and renewed in June 2006, aims to reconcile economic development, social cohesion and protection of the environment. Monitoring progress towards this overarching goal is an essential part of the Strategy. The aim of these pages is to present a set of indicators being developed to monitor, assess and review the EU's Sustainable Development Strategy. A parallel objective is to inform the general public about progress in attaining the commonly agreed objectives of sustainable development.
The indicators were developed with the help of a group of national experts, known as the 'Sustainable Development Indicators Task force'. They are organised within 10 themes reflecting the political priorities of the Strategy, and related subsequent political commitments.
Seven themes correspond to the priority areas of the 2001 Commission Communication (A sustainable Europe for a better World) and the 2002 Communication on Global Partnership, while Production and Consumption Patterns and Good Governance arise from the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The theme on Economic Development highlights the economic dimension of sustainable development and bridges it to the Lisbon Process.
The themes are further divided into sub-themes and ‘areas to be addressed’. The sub-themes usually monitor the progress towards the headline objectives while the ´areas to be addressed` facilitate a more detailed and diversified analysis of background factors in each theme. In some cases the sub-themes also address ‘slow burning’ concerns that may need a very long time to reverse.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 28/10/2007
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