Conclusions
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EIAs have proved to be among the most successful approaches for making decisions
about policies, plans, programs and projects.
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Integrated management for sustainable development needs broad knowledge
• and acute sensitivity. Modern management is increasingly becoming interdisciplinary and more flexible. However, interdisciplinarity is truly difficult to put into
effect because there are many different cultures of knowledge and understanding.
Achieving integrated approaches in project development therefore requires close
collaboration between the policy makers, economic managers and scientists of the
various cultures involved
Every discipline has its own technical language which is usually not understood
by the other disciplines. Communication programs are therefore needed to translate
the jargon of one stakeholder for the others. In addition, both scientists and decision
makers must learn to make clear statements and to formulate clear questions.
Education should be seen as an opportunity to meet the needs of interdisciplinary
action and not merely as an unavoidable inconvenience. Many traditional educational institutions are currently unable to offer interdisciplinary training programs.
In many cases appropriate training programs still have to be developed and the educational facilities to be made available.
Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable development in the future are more
than simply an integration of different attitudes or theories. A completely new style
of management is required, one which is more consultative, pro-active and participatory. This should be a flexible process as regarded by some of the old Greek philosophers who recognised that everything is in a state of flux. The process of learning and
communication is a challenge to meet the needs of the future.
In the preamble of the recommendations it is pointed out that the increasing
number of large-scale constructions exert strong pressure on the environment. In
this context we need a modern educational philosophy linking the environment with
development. The conference showed that sensitivity, and especially the time scales
of the environmental system, as well as social and economic impacts are poorly understood Though political conditions are often short-sighted, transborder government programs have to supply the necessary educational facilities. This means that
both industry and government must make an effort to guarantee a satisfactory development of further education. The UN should support training courses in integrated management designed to bring together industrial and scientific partners in
order to improve competence in fields such as: 1) holistic strategy resource use of the
environment; 2) environmental communication; 3) integrated management with a
focus on social and economic systems; and 4) education in ecosystem functioning.
xv
EIAs have proved to be among the most successful approaches for making decisions
about policies, plans, programs and projects.
8
Integrated management for sustainable development needs broad knowledge
• and acute sensitivity. Modern management is increasingly becoming interdisciplinary and more flexible. However, interdisciplinarity is truly difficult to put into
effect because there are many different cultures of knowledge and understanding.
Achieving integrated approaches in project development therefore requires close
collaboration between the policy makers, economic managers and scientists of the
various cultures involved
Every discipline has its own technical language which is usually not understood
by the other disciplines. Communication programs are therefore needed to translate
the jargon of one stakeholder for the others. In addition, both scientists and decision
makers must learn to make clear statements and to formulate clear questions.
Education should be seen as an opportunity to meet the needs of interdisciplinary
action and not merely as an unavoidable inconvenience. Many traditional educational institutions are currently unable to offer interdisciplinary training programs.
In many cases appropriate training programs still have to be developed and the educational facilities to be made available.
Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable development in the future are more
than simply an integration of different attitudes or theories. A completely new style
of management is required, one which is more consultative, pro-active and participatory. This should be a flexible process as regarded by some of the old Greek philosophers who recognised that everything is in a state of flux. The process of learning and
communication is a challenge to meet the needs of the future.
In the preamble of the recommendations it is pointed out that the increasing
number of large-scale constructions exert strong pressure on the environment. In
this context we need a modern educational philosophy linking the environment with
development. The conference showed that sensitivity, and especially the time scales
of the environmental system, as well as social and economic impacts are poorly understood Though political conditions are often short-sighted, transborder government programs have to supply the necessary educational facilities. This means that
both industry and government must make an effort to guarantee a satisfactory development of further education. The UN should support training courses in integrated management designed to bring together industrial and scientific partners in
order to improve competence in fields such as: 1) holistic strategy resource use of the
environment; 2) environmental communication; 3) integrated management with a
focus on social and economic systems; and 4) education in ecosystem functioning.