A New Sustainable Development Strategy: An Opportunity Not To Be Missed

What is sustainability? Is it something to achieve as a result; or is it a process, bringing people with different interests together, all looking for new approaches to make their own lives and those of their children more valuable? In truth, it must be both. Regarding the former, there is a clear and urgent imperative to halt and reverse a range of threatening unsustainable and negative trends. But the Advisory Council for Research on Spatial Planning, Nature and the Environment (RMNO) is convinced we need to make particularly strong efforts to achieve the latter.