Thomas Schauer, Raoul Weiler, Daniel Schaubacher (Eds.)

How can we make the renewed EU strategy more successful? This was one of the ques- tions which led to the symposium "Civil Society Monitoring the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development - From Commenting to Shared Ownership" organized in Brussels in April 2006 by the Brussels-EU Chapter and the European Support Centre of the Club of Rome in co-operation with the Austrian EU Presidency. At a stakeholder meeting organised by the EESC in March 2006, many representatives from NGOs had expressed their disappointment with the implemen- tation of the old strategy. Therefore, the symposium also tried to analyse the obstacles which prevented practical success of the old strategy and to give recommendations related to the par- ticipation of civil society in the monitoring and implementation of the renewed strategy for sus- tainable development.

Contents

Thomas Schauer
Preface

Anders Wijkman
Sustainable Development Needs a Systems Approach:
Perspectives for Bottom-Up Initiatives

Michel Servoz
The Review of the Sustainable Development Strategy: A New Approach

Rita Trattnigg
Renewing the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development:
The Perspective of the Austrian EU Presidency

Jakob von Uexküll
Building the EU's Global Vision: The World Future Council Initiative

Ingeborg Niestroy
Sustainable Development Councils as Multi-Stakeholder Formations:
Types, Styles and Roles in SD Strategy Processes

Dietrich Sperling
Aspects of Participation and Lobbying

Johannes Kind
Consultation of Civil Society: Experience with Stakeholder Fora

Sally Nicholson
An NGO Perspective on Involvement in Sustainability Strategies

Josef Riegler
EU Strategy for Sustainable Development Needs Global Structural Framework

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