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From the Task Force perspective, then, a key issue for the new Environmental Plan is that it move the City towards sustainability, and specifically that it encouraging integrative (cross discipline) decision-making. Local Agenda 21 Local Agenda 21 (LA21) is a planning framework for local government to apply the sustainable development concept (see Appendix 1 for more information). It is essentially a multi-stakeholder action planning process which frames planning elements (partnerships, evaluation, community-based issue analysis, action planning, implementation and monitoring) but does not ascribe particular outcomes (Salsberg, 1998). It was developed by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). Membership entails a commitment on the part of the city to the concept of sustainability. Although in general the development of the Environmental Plan is consistent with the LA21 framework (broad community involvement, monitoring and partnerships), Toronto has not formally applied to become a member municipality as the Region of Hamilton-Wentworth and the County of Lancashire have done. Frameworks for Sustainability Planning Four frameworks for sustainability planning were identified in the paper Frameworks for Applying Sustainability in the City of Toronto: the Ecological Footprint; the Natural Step; Local Agenda 21 and Healthy City. These are described in Appendix 1. One conclusion of the paper is that the frameworks are not mutually exclusive, and using multiple frameworks can in fact, be a strength, as demonstrated in Goteborg where Local Agenda 21 and Healthy Cities frameworks are used simultaneously, and there “appears to be greater involvement of the entire organization, and a greater diversity of stakeholders … the frameworks reinforce and support each other by having overlap at the conceptual level yet addressing different aspects of city activities in the specific” (Salsberg, 1998, pg. 38). Manchester is also cited as an example where a multiframework approach appears to be effective and “the Ecological Footprint is utilized as an important index for many aspects of the plan” (Salsberg, 1998, pg. 38). Salsberg’s report recommends a multi-framework approach: The Ecological Footprint be used as the overarching framework for State of Environment reporting and as a means to gauge the sustainability impact of recommendations in all reports to Council; 7
the principles of the Natural Step be introduced as the framework for an environmental management and audit system (EMAS) for the City of Toronto; and that Local Agenda 21 be adopted as the umbrella framework for the Environmental Plan and the work of the Environmental Task Force work groups. 8
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