SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEED FOR PLANNING
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEED FOR PLANNING

Summary/Abstract: Sustainable and balanced development requires positive and constant evolution of a community, in a given area, towards superior parameters in line with the interests and expectations of its members. To this end, the community needs sufficient resources and, equally, precise targets to which to direct all activities that generates a complex development. Since - especially in a period of acute economic crisis - a finding of chronic precarity of these resources, it is essential that they are used with maximum efficiency, towards achieving the priorities for the future of the community. Hence the need of strategic planning of the future, based on broad consultation with community members and to assume, together, the successes and failures of this approach. This paper aims to analyze the characteristics and limitations of this process, especially in terms of local government involvement

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