Sustainable urban management and the European Commission
Dutch version
(Nederlandse versie)
The Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the
Environment and the Ministry of Economic Affairs requested Novem to conduct a
descriptive research into sustainable urban management and effects on it of
European policy making. On May 8 2001, Novem presented the results during a
workshop on Sustain 2001.
The descriptive research consisted of a written questionnaire and personal
interviews with European, successful "sustainable" cities, the European
Commission, the oil industry, and international cities networking organisations.
Relevant background information and outcomes of the descriptive research on
"sustainable urban management" can be found below:
- Policy paper in Dutch:
"
Steden en hun streven naar verduurzaming: de eerste stappen naar gemeentelijke
verduurzaming" (pdf-file, 92kb)
- Brochure on the results in English:
"
From policy to reality: urban sustainable management and the European Commission"
(pdf-file, 484kb)
- Final repport of the descriptive research in English
"Sustainable urban management and the European Commission"
(pdf-file, 957kb)
- Press release in Dutch:
"Gemeentelijke verduurzaming een kwestie van gewoon doen" (pdf-file, 16kb)
- Two reports with titles
"Efforts towards urban sustainability in Europe -literature review, March 2001
(pdf-file, 405kb) and
"Efforts towards urban sustainability in Europe -final report, April 2001
(pdf-file, 969kb) prepared by Diana �rge-Vorsatz and Aleg Cherp of the Central
European University.
- Links to relevant sites are amongst others
the
European Commission,
international networking organisation for sustainable cities en
Dbases containing "sustainable" projects, know-how, and ideas
For more information, please contact Mr Rob Kool
( r.kool@novem.nl
) +31 (0) 30 2393 599 or Mr Jan Dijk (
j.dijk@novem.nl ) +31 (0) 46 4202 335.
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