| The Namibian Government (GRN) gives a high priority to "sustainable and integrated natural resource management" in its First National Development Plan (NDP #1), which covers the fiveyear period from 1996–2000. The National Development Plan commits the GRN to: "...promote sustainable development within all sectors and across all regions, to ensure present and future generations of Namibians gain optimal benefit from the equitable and sustainable utilisation of Namibia's renewable resources; to protect the nation's biodiversity and maintain essential ecological life-support systems; to promote participatory, cross-sectoral and integrated programmes to improve understanding of the management of natural resources on a sustainable basis." The First National... |
