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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. A Toolkit for Understanding and Action. Protecting Nature's Services. Protecting Ourselves. 
Island Press, 2007
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is an international work program designed to  meet the needs of decisionmakers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of  ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes. www.maweb.org 
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LIVING PLANET REPORT
Loh, J., Goldfinger, S., Bourne, G., Atkin, M., Mcrae, L., Ewing, B., Moran, D., et al. (2008). 
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Ecosystem Conditions and Human Well-being. Current State and Trends
Lead, C., Marc, A., Babu, S., Hamilton, K., Authors, L., Rhoe, V., Catenazzi, A., et al.
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The Future of Sustainability: Re-thinking Environment and Development in the Twenty-first Century
Report of the IUCN Renowned Thinkers Meeting, 29-31 January 2006
W.M. Adams, Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge, UK 
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The Nature of Development: Integrating Conservation & Development to Support Sustainable, Resilient Societies
InterAction: A United Voice for Global Change. June 2011
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Sustainable Development-the Very Idea
Minnesota Planning Environmental Quality Board, 1998
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The Pathway to Sustainable Development
From suite101.com
The Bellagio Principles assist organisations to assess their progress towards sustainable development.

Sustainable Development in West Africa: Beginning the Process. 
Heaps, C., & Kemp-benedict, E. Population (June, 1999) 

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Best Policies for Future Generations 2011
World Future Council 
We in the World Future Council work for responsible, sustainable thinking and action in the interests of future generations. We have come together as a council because, despite our very different backgrounds, we are bound together by our common values: responsibility, compassion, respect, trust and our caring for the environment. We come from every continent, from politics, civil society, business, science and culture. We inform decision-makers worldwide about existing policy solutions to the challenges of our time. We help develop and promote such solutions in the areas of: 
  • Climate, Energy and Regenerative Cities 
  • Sustainable Ecosystems 
  • Just Societies 
  • Sustainable Business and a Sustainable 
  • Financial System 
  • Peace and Disarmament 
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Green America’s Guide to Fair Trade
Green America’s mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. 
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2012 Ibrahim Index of African Governance Summary
October 2012 Mo Ibrahim Foundation
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GEN-Africa is the African ecovillage association, promoting social resilience, environmental pro­tection and restoration of nature through the concept of ecovillages as models for sustainable human settlements. We actively support the de­vel­opment of ecovillages and networks in all parts of Africa.

35 participants including 12 Africans complete Ecovillage Design Education course in Sieben Linden, Germany
26.09.2011

How do we redesign a new economic theory framed by ecological systems?
From www.guardian.co.uk
Economics as we know it today is broken. Unable to explain, to predict or to protect, it is need of root-and-branch replacement.