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Principles in provincial strategies
Principles that appear in almost all provincial strategies:
- global responsibility;
- living off the interest not the capital;
- minimizing the use of non-renewable resources;
- maintaining biodiversity and the integrity of essential
ecological processes;
- accountability in decision making;
- stewardship and individual responsibility;
- full-cost accounting;
- staying within the Earth's carrying capacity;
- changing some basic assumptions and underlying values;
- improved access to information and decision making.
Principles that appear less frequently:
- fairer distribution of costs and benefits;
- meeting basic needs;
- cultural awareness;
- recognition of non-monetary values;
- focussing on the longer-term economic goals;
- quality rather than quantity of development;
- encouraging scientific and technological innovation.
From: Canadian Choices for Transitions to Sustainability.
Ottawa : Projet de société. Final draft, May 1995.
Chapter 1.
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