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Abstract
Governments have decided to involve communities and community-based organizations to achieve true ecological sustainability and solve the current environmental crisis after realizing that they cannot solve environmental problems on their own. Agenda 21, an 800-page blueprint for a sustainable future was formed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, which had an objective to move towards real social partnership in support of common efforts for sustainable development. To help establish channels of cooperation between the different types of human communities, Agenda 21 identifies nine primary sectors of human society namely women, children and youth, indigenous people, NGOs, local administrators, workers and trade unions, business and industry, scientists and academics, farmers, fisherfolk and rural agriculturists. These constitute the major groups that play a vital role in conservation of natural resources. The commitment and genuine involvement of all these groups is necessary for the effective implementation of the objectives, policies and mechanisms agreed to by Governments in all programme areas of Agenda 21.
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Copyright © 2024 Prof. Dr. Nirmala Kumari. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
