From Strategy to Action:
The IUCN Response to the Report of the
World Commission on Environment and Development

IUCN (1989): From Strategy to Action: The IUCN Response to the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. IUCN, Gland, and Cambridge, UK.

This document provides a perspective on the activities which IUCN- as the World Conservation Union- intended to promote and implement in support of the principles of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) and UNEP. The comments and proposals for action are focused on those areas most closely related to IUCN’s mission and competence, dealing primarily with the management of living natural resources. The document is ordered into cross-sectoral themes (human ecology, biological diversity, natural units, global commons, economics, trade and aid) and cross-sectoral techniques (strategic planning, building institutions and public support, research and information management, education and training, and legislation).