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Indicator Sets on City and Cantonal Levels in Switzerland: Tools for Sustainable Development

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With the integration of the principle of sustainable development into the new Federal Constitution in 1999, sustainability gained a strong foothold on the federal level in Switzerland. In 1996, the Interdepartmental Committee Rio (IDCRio) published an inventory entitled Sustainable Development for Switzerland (BUWAL 1996), which assessed the implementation of sustainable development in different policy branches of the Helvetian Confederation. Spatial planning was identified as an action field for the realization of sustainable development (see UVEK 1999; Keiner 2001). The Council for Sustainable Development worked out a plan of action for Switzerland (BUWAL 1997) with middle- to long-term objectives and recommendations for implementation in sectoral policies. From this, a sustainability strategy of the Federal Council was derived (Bundesrat 1999). With regard to the RIO+10 summit in Johannesburg in 2002, this strategy has been updated to an action plan as the Strategy for Sustainable Development 2002 (Bundesrat 2002).

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Schultz, B., Keiner, M. (2004). Indicator Sets on City and Cantonal Levels in Switzerland: Tools for Sustainable Development. In: Koll-Schretzenmayr, M., Keiner, M., Nussbaumer, G. (eds) The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10398-2_5

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