Interdisciplinary planning

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends such improvements with respect to integrating environment and development in decision-making.

UNESCO has emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary planning and programme design.

1. Increased specialization and the still incomplete understanding of the dynamic interactions between science and technology, education, culture and communication, have added to the difficulty of developing a system of incentives which encourages interdisciplinary programme design and intersectoral management of a more strategic, long-term nature.

1. Planning
2. Developing management techniques
3. Applying interdisciplinarity
4. Adopting planning approaches serving multiple goals

1. Strengthening interdisciplinary research on drought prevention strategies
2. Promoting interdisciplinary research on climate change
3. Planning for environmental factors
4. Applying comparative analysis

1. Improving project programmes
2. Ensuring sustainability by national development strategy adjustments

1. Using roundtable process
2. Teaching integrative education
3. Facilitating interdisciplinary exchanges

1. Mismanagement