strategy
Adopting planning approaches serving multiple goals
Synonyms:
Integrating plansIntegrating planning means
Using integrated planning
Context:
Two dimensions to the integration of plans may be distinguished: ensuring a relationship between strategic plans and medium-range plans, and between medium-range plans and short-range plans; and ensuring a relationship between all the plans concerned with a particular time frame. Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. In the context of integrating environment and development in decision-making, Agenda 21 recommends adopting flexible and integrative planning approaches that allow the consideration of multiple goals and enable adjustment of changing needs. Integration of plans is facilitated by developing both quantitative and qualitative plans, thus permitting cross-references among functions, interrelating levels of planning, and providing cross-checks for evaluations. Numerous methods of integrating plans exist, but the most universally used basis for translating strategic plans into actions is a budgeting, or cost-benefit, system. Within the context of sustainable development, integrative area approaches at the ecosystem or watershed level can assist in this approach. Broader:
Planning for sustainabilityServingAdoptingPlanningManaging resources holisticallyEstablishing inclusive planning frameworkImproving planning and management systems Narrower:
Interdisciplinary planningUsing cost-benefit analysisIntegrating urban developmentEstablishing budgetary planningPreparing sustainable development plansDeveloping environmental health action plansIntegrating planning of action against problemsImplementing integrated coastal development plansPlanning integrated food plant nutrient programmesAdopting environmental codes of conduct for businessInstituting integrated management of water catchmentsIntegrating environmental and economic decision-makingIntegrating transport, environment and health policiesIntegrating disaster prevention into development planningIntegrating local planning in education curricula in small islandsIntegrating biodiversity concerns into development project planningProviding public information on integrated plant nutrient programmesIntegrating water resources management in national development plansIntegrating biotechnologies for plants, animals and forest resourcesIntegrating population programmes in environment and development plansIntegrating small scale artisanal fisheries development in marine planningAdopting strategic frameworks to integrate environment and development goalsDeveloping national strategies for the integrated control of communicable diseasesUsing integrated approaches to environmental infrastructure in informal settlementsIntegrating energy management Facilitates:
Regional planningStrategic planningCooperating in industryEstablishing long-range development plans Facilitated by:
Using policy analysisGaming in decision-making Problems:
Deficient social planningValues:
IntegrationSelfishness Subjects:
Society → Maternity, paternityManagement → Planning
Policy-making → Policy
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
