Strengthening urban environment community groups

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 the empowering of community groups, non-governmental organizations and individuals to assume authority and responsibility for managing and enhancing their immediate environment through participatory tools, techniques and approaches embodied in the concept of environmental care.

1. Renewing urban environment
2. Promoting community involvement in environmental protection
3. Instigating community resources management
4. Improving urban governance
5. Improving existing communities

1. Preserving community identity in urban environments
2. Integrating biodiversity concerns with urban economic development

1. Lack of community involvement in environmental protection

1. Community
2. Anticommunity