Regional Opportunities for Sustainable Development

Acknowledgements. I. Introduction and Survey. Part One: Theory. II. Sustainable Development: Looking for New Strategies. III. Defining Socio-Environmental Systems for Sustainable Development. IV. A Framework for Identifying the Valuable Characteristics of a Socio-Environmental System. V. Measuring the Resource State of a Socio-Environmental System. VI. Procedure for Sustainable Development: Decision Making Phases and Information Requirements. Part Two: In Search of Improvements to the Proposed Methods and Procedures. VII. The Analysis of the Research Project `Integrated Agriculture in the Netherlands'. VIII. The Analysis of the Research Project `Reduction in Production in the Dutch Dairy Sector'. IX. A Simulation of The Selection of Valuable Characteristics of the Rijnmond Region of the Netherlands. X. A Simulation of the Measurement of the Resource State of a Dune and Bulb-growing Region in the Netherlands. Part Three: The Application of the Proposed Procedure within a Decision Making Process. XI. Introduction: Opportunities for Multiple Land-Use in Rural Areas. XII. The Exploration of the Potential to Combine Land-use Processes. XIII. Exploration of the Potential Regional Benefits of Multiple Land-use. Part Four: Summary, Perspectives, and References. XIV. Summary and Perspectives. XV. References.