Implementation of ecologically sustainable development by Commonwealth departments and agencies
Inquiry report
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Contents
- Preliminaries
- Cover, Copyright, Terms of Reference, Contents, Abbreviations and explanations. Overview
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 What is ESD?
- 1.2 Why is ESD important?
- 1.3 What is this inquiry about?
- 1.4 The inquiry process
- 1.5 Outline of this report
- 2 Role of government in ESD implementation
- 2.1 Issues in implementing ESD
- 2.2 Role of government in implementing ESD
- 2.3 Intervention failure
- 2.4 Addressing intervention failures
- 3 Government approaches to ESD
- 3.1 The Commonwealth's ESD responsibilities
- 3.2 Whole of government approaches for incorporating ESD
- 3.3 The Commission's assessment
- 4 Current status of ESD implementation by the Commonwealth
- 4.1 Current mechanisms for incorporating ESD principles in decision making
- 4.2 Policy and programs
- 4.3 Current mechanisms for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting effectiveness in implementing ESD
- 4.4 The Commission's assessment
- 5 Case studies
- 5.2 Key issues in implementing ESD
- 6 Improving policy development processes
- 6.1 The case for change
- 6.2 Improving the adoption of good policy making processes
- 7 Improving coordination, monitoring and feedback
- 7.1 Improving coordination
- 7.2 Improving the information base
- 8 Improving performance measurement
- 8.1 Lessons from performance measurement in other areas
- 8.2 Establishing objectives and measurable outcomes
- 8.3 Development of a framework for performance measurement
- 8.4 Contextual factors
- 8.5 Data collection
- 9 Priorities in ESD implementation
- 9.1 Issues in developing future directions
- 9.2 Facilitating the future direction of ESD
- A List of participants
- B Questionnaire
- Inquiry into Implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development by Commonwealth Departments and Agencies
- Background
- How to respond to this questionnaire
- General issues
- A Identifying key ESD programs
- B Background and objectives of key programs
- C Operation of key programs
- D Performance monitoring and reporting
- E Program Review
- F Impact of programs
- Other comments
- C Commonwealth policies and programs relevant to ESD
- D Case studies
- D.1 Regional Forest Agreements
- D.2 Fisheries management plans
- D.3 Natural Resource Management Strategy
- D.4 National Greenhouse Strategy
- D.5 Environmental management by the Department of Defence
- References
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