National Sustainability Strategies,
A Comparative Review of the Status of Five Countries:
Canada, France, The Netherlands, Norway and the UK

Hill, J. (1993): National Sustainability Strategies: A Comparative Review of the Status of Five Countries: Canada, France, The Netherlands, Norway and the UK. The Green Alliance, London.

This paper assesses how  five countries- Norway, Canada, France, UK and the Netherlands- view their progress towards a national sustainable strategy. The review was compiled by telephone interviews with key officials during December 1992 and January 1993, and therefore does not evaluate the success of the existing environmental plans in relation to their goals. It was designed to shed light on the debates underway in the five countries, on the political processes that might be changing as a result of those debates, and on some of the concrete mechanisms put in place in pursuit of environmental, or “sustainability”, goals.